Indian Buddhist Attitudes toward Outcastes: Rhetoric around caṇḍālas
Indian Buddhist literary sources contain both systematic and casual rejections of, broadly speaking, the caste system and caste discrimination. However, they also provide ample evidence for, possibly subconscious, discriminatory attitudes toward outcastes, prototypically caṇḍālas. The rhetoric found...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Brill
[2020]
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Indo-Iranian journal
Jahr: 2020, Band: 63, Heft: 2, Seiten: 128-187 |
| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Indien
/ Buddhismus
/ Kaste
/ Soziales System
/ Ablehnung
/ Dalit
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Religionssoziologie; Religionspolitik BL Buddhismus KBM Asien |
| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Buddhism
B Discrimination B caṇḍāla B Prejudice B Caste B ancient India |
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| Zusammenfassung: | Indian Buddhist literary sources contain both systematic and casual rejections of, broadly speaking, the caste system and caste discrimination. However, they also provide ample evidence for, possibly subconscious, discriminatory attitudes toward outcastes, prototypically caṇḍālas. The rhetoric found in Indian Buddhist literature regarding caṇḍālas is examined in this paper. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8536 |
| Enthält: | Enthalten in: Indo-Iranian journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06302003 |