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''The Buddha and His Dhamma'', is a 1957 treatise on Buddha's life and
philosophy Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, Value (ethics and social sciences), value, mind, and language. It is a rational an ...
. It was the last work of Indian statesman and scholar B. R. Ambedkar. According to Queen (2015), the text is treated as scripture for those who follow
Navayana ''Navayāna'' (Devanagari: नवयान, IAST: ''Navayāna'', meaning "New Vehicle"), otherwise known as Navayāna Buddhism, refers to the Engaged Buddhism, socially engaged Buddhist schools, school of Buddhism founded and developed by th ...
Buddhism.


Publication history

''The Buddha and His Dhamma'' was first published in 1957 in the year following Ambedkar's death on 6 December 1956. Written in English, the book has been translated to many languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali and Kannada. It was republished in 1979 as the eleventh volume of Ambedkar's collected writings and speeches, with a list of sources and an index. B.R. Ambedkar mentioned that it is one of the three books which he believed to form a set for the proper understanding of Buddhism. The other two books are: * ''Buddha and Karl Marx''; and * ''Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India''.


In popular culture

A Hindi-language film, '' A Journey of Samyak Buddha'', is based on ''The Buddha and His Dhamma''.


See also

* A Journey of Samyak Buddha * B. R. Ambedkar bibliography


References


Bibliography

* * Baumann, Martin (1991)
"Neo-Buddhistische Konzeptionen in Indien und England: Zum 100. Geburtstag Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkars"
', ''43'' (2), pp. 97–116. * Fiske, Adele & Emmrich, Christoph (2004). The use of Buddhist scriptures in B.R. Ambedkar's ''The Buddha and His Dhamma''. nJondhale, Surendra; Beltz, Johannes (eds.). ''Reconstructing the World: B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India''. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. *


External links

* Book Online {{DEFAULTSORT:Buddha And His dhamma, The Books by B. R. Ambedkar History of India in fiction 1957 non-fiction books Navayana Buddhism studies books Books adapted into films Books about Gautama Buddha Books published posthumously