I have been visiting Sarnath many times on the invitation of Mahabodhi Society. During this period, I did not show any curiosity about Buddhism, nor did he try to tell me something from his side. However, since my visit to Tibet in 2015, my interest in the Tibetan culture had increased, so there was some talk of Tibetan scholars present there. Situated next to the city of Banaras, there are educational institutions, hospices and cultural centers of Tibetan, Sri Lankan, Myanmar and many other Buddhist countries, in a prominent pilgrim center of Buddhism. Pilgrims coming from Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Laos and other countries are in touch with these centers. For many days I wanted to know that the role of the local people here is limited to selling these small things to pilgrims, or some of them are also from Buddha and their religion.
The headmaster of Sarnath in which I sustained me, is the chief monk of Sri Lankan origin who speak Hindi well, but the main role in its operation is the neo-Buddhist movement taking inspiration from Dr. Bhimrao Ambedkar. Seeing an evening chance, I placed my curiosity in front of the head. Bhanteji, pointing to a local gentleman who saw the work of Dharamsala, said that these are Khanti Buddhists, but who can say this by looking at them from outside? I have seen those gentlemen since my first Sarnath migration, so later I asked him how many families have faith in Buddhism in this area, what has changed in their lives, their changes They are placed in front of everyone, or according to the current environment, the Buddha is satisfied with the tenth embodiment of Vishnu.
Initially his words sounded like a secret creed worker. An unknown man is asking such questions to him, what is his purpose behind this? But when the matter was gradually cleared, he said that most regret is with regard to the fact that the educated people coming here say that Buddha was very good, his talk was good, but his efforts in dealing with Buddha and Their religion is only about cutting the leaf. Then he also told that many people here do not express their Buddhism because they can end their reservations and other facilities as dalit and backward. I said that this problem is with the Christian and Muslim Dalit and the backward, but there is no such complaint heard from the Dalit Buddhists of Maharashtra. He said that there is no such government order, but if you go to get a certificate from any officer, then he says that different religions of father and child can not enter it.
The next day my sakha was due to ethnic conflicts of local Buddhist religion. In the last three decades, the impact of Buddhism has increased in the two communities surrounding Sarnath for different reasons. Traditionally, a section of the Radadas, who work in leather, accepted Buddhism due to their emotional attachment to Dr. Ambedkar, while the Koyari caste associated with the cultivation of vegetables, along with improving their economic status, stood in the name of Emperor Ashoka. By doing his religion and making it a tool for his social-political claim.
The discerning people of both the nations, while sitting together, also take part in the Buddhist events. But whenever they try to increase the scope of this proximate, their opposition starts from within their caste. As a result, the fear of mutual attachment has been tied up in this fear that bitterness does not increase in both communities. Initially, each other's mistakes were criticized on both sides, it is not done anymore.
On this large scale, this sample introduces us to the problems of Indian Buddhist Renaissance, which started on the initiative of Sri Lankan intellectual Don David Heavivirtane (monk Anagaric Dharmapal) at the beginning of the last century. At the time of Indian Census of 1911, there were 3 lakh 36 thousand Buddhists in India's current geography. Hundred years later, in 2011 census, their population has registered 87 lakhs, in which 73 lakhs are the dalit Buddhists of Maharashtra who regard Ambedkar as their admiration.
It is difficult to know about the trends of population in hundreds of years that Buddhism in India has become entangled in the crisis today. Buddhist tourists and scholars have come here. Vipassana is becoming very popular in Indian metros. If the prime minister goes to Eastern countries, then the slogan of 'war or Buddha' is given. But where is the idea of
Gautam Buddha, his suggested way of life, the caste structure of independent India, and the recent aggressive consensual politics that has emerged from here in the recent past, has left it alive, can only tell it, Try to gather information about
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