People from India, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, the US and other countries participated in the walk with devotion and surrender to Buddha, says professor
Anurag Banerjee for The Caravan
At Dadar’s Chaitya Bhoomi, where Ambedkar was cremated, stalls sell his books all year round. Anurag Banerjee for The Caravan
IN A RARE MOMENT OF LEISURE, on the night of 5 December 1956, at his rented bungalow on Delhi’s Alipur Road, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar chanted the Buddhist liturgy as it played on the radiogram: “
Buddham Sharanam Gachchhami,
Dhamman Sharanam Gachchhami,
Sangham Sharanam Gachchhami” I take refuge in Buddha, in his Dhamma and in the Sangha. His cook broke his reverie by asking him to come have dinner. He had to be coaxed several times before he agreed to eat a little rice.
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