Q4: Ambedkar’s view on Sangha and Sangha’s activities in modern India (SEC-B)
In Ambedkar’s historical interpretation of Buddhism, Sangha was created by the Buddha as a model to show to the lay persons that his ides could be practiced. In Ambedkar’s view “Is the Bhikkhu to devote himself to self and self- culture or is he to serve the people and guide them? He must discharge both functions? Without self-culture he is not fit to guide. A Bhikkhu who is indifferent to the woes of mankind..is not .. aBhikkhu”
Ambedkar says that lay persons were as much true to the faith as the Bhikkhus ad lay persons could also bring their complaints against monastic misconduct. According to Ambedkar :Sangha-Diksha included both initiation into the Sangha as also into the Dharma. But there was no separate Dhamma-Diksha for those who wanted to be initiated into the Dhamma, but did not wish to become members of the Sangha..this was a grave omission … one which led to the down-fall of Buddhism in India”. It was this grave omission that Ambedkar corrected by Dhamma-Diksha in 1956.
In Ambedkar’s view the present day BhikkhuSangha was not serving their duties and did not have much of self culture. Ambedkar emphasized on the laity and their work for the Dharma. Since there is no economic base for a full time Order, there should be an UpasakaSangha. In the Ambedkar and milind Colleges in Auraangabad for instance, a good number of students undertaked voluntary eight week, grishma-sila or summe vows.
The summer vows a course in Dhamma is devoted to holding meetings, teaching Buddhist songs, reading from the Buddha and His Dhamma and organizing, upon occasion, the construction of a Vihara. This trains the students to teach in the villages during their vocation. The Dhamma’s origins in social concern, its non-Aryan character and a new kind of Sangha and its duties are for the basis on which Ambedkar’sDhammaSangha are different from the ancient DhammaSangha.
Q4: Ambedkar’s view on Sangha and Sangha’s activities in modern India (SEC-B)In Ambedkar’s historical interpretation of Buddhism, Sangha was created by the Buddha as a model to show to the lay persons that his ides could be practiced. In Ambedkar’s view “Is the Bhikkhu to devote himself to self and self- culture or is he to serve the people and guide them? He must discharge both functions? Without self-culture he is not fit to guide. A Bhikkhu who is indifferent to the woes of mankind..is not .. aBhikkhu”Ambedkar says that lay persons were as much true to the faith as the Bhikkhus ad lay persons could also bring their complaints against monastic misconduct. According to Ambedkar :Sangha-Diksha included both initiation into the Sangha as also into the Dharma. But there was no separate Dhamma-Diksha for those who wanted to be initiated into the Dhamma, but did not wish to become members of the Sangha..this was a grave omission … one which led to the down-fall of Buddhism in India”. It was this grave omission that Ambedkar corrected by Dhamma-Diksha in 1956.In Ambedkar’s view the present day BhikkhuSangha was not serving their duties and did not have much of self culture. Ambedkar emphasized on the laity and their work for the Dharma. Since there is no economic base for a full time Order, there should be an UpasakaSangha. In the Ambedkar and milind Colleges in Auraangabad for instance, a good number of students undertaked voluntary eight week, grishma-sila or summe vows.The summer vows a course in Dhamma is devoted to holding meetings, teaching Buddhist songs, reading from the Buddha and His Dhamma and organizing, upon occasion, the construction of a Vihara. This trains the students to teach in the villages during their vocation. The Dhamma’s origins in social concern, its non-Aryan character and a new kind of Sangha and its duties are for the basis on which Ambedkar’sDhammaSangha are different from the ancient DhammaSangha.
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