Nagaloka 2011 Annual Report

March 2010-April 2011

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To spread Buddhism is to serve mankind

Nagarjuna Training Institute ‘Nagaloka’, Kamptee Road, Near Akashwani Tower, Bhilgaon, Nagpur, India Phone: +91-712-264 2003/ 6699 Fax: +91-712- 264 3994 Website: www.Nagaloka.org

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1. OVERVIEW………………………………………………………………….………….……….……04 2. INTRODUCTION……………………………………………………………………………….…….……..…06 3. REVIVAL OF BUDDHISM IN INDIA……………………………………………………..…………..08 4. TOWARDS GLOBAL BUDDHIST COMMUNITY…………………………….…………….……….….....15 5. BUDDHIST BASED SOCIAL ACTION…………………………………………………………..……….….20 6. HOW YOU CAN HELP………...………………………..……………………………………….….……..…..22

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1. Overview Nagaloka is situated in Nagpur, in the centre of India. It is also the centre of the new Buddhist Movement for the very fact that Dr. Ambedkar converted there on 14th October 1956 with 500,000 followers largely from the most oppressed sections of society – formerly known as untouchables and now known as Scheduled Castes or Scheduled Castes.

The Nagaloka campus is almost 15 acres, and consists of a large Dhamma Teaching Hall, library and teaching rooms, residential accommodation for students as well as for conferences, and other facilities. At the centre of the campus is a beautiful statue of the Buddha walking – 36 feet high, on a 20 foot mound.

Nagaloka‟s vision is to create a casteless society based on the Buddhist values of liberty, equality and fraternity as envisioned by Dr. Ambedkar, through walking in the footsteps of the Buddha.

Dr. Ambedkar (1891-1956), born a so-called untouchable, is a revered figure for millions because of his struggle to eradicate untouchability and caste. Although he brought about many significant social and legal changes in India, and played the leading role in drafting the new constitution, it was Buddhism more than these that he felt would help bring about the most effective changes in Indian society. Unfortunately he died on December 6, 1956, just six weeks after his conversion, and was not able to see his great work through.

There are estimated to be 40 million Buddhists in India today, but more than 200 million Scheduled Castes are to some extent open to Dr. Ambedkar’s message of the Dhamma, as well as many from other backgrounds. There is very little effective teaching available to them, most being extremely poor, and having been largely ignored by the Buddhist world.

There are three aspects to Nagaloka.

1. The Nagarjuna Institute (NI) was established at Nagaloka, to train young people from all over India in basic Buddhist teachings and practices, as well as social work..

- The students come from some of the most deprived and oppressed situations, often with a feeling of no hope whatsoever. After a year of Dhamma practice most feel transformed, with a new vision of life, and the Dhamma tools to develop it.

- The new confidence in the Dhamma they develop gives them energy to share what they have learnt with many others in their villages and towns.

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- Many have started social projects in their villages and towns.

- The all- India network of NI graduates is the basis for organising local activities, retreats and lecture tours, making a significant contribution to the revival of Buddhism in India.

2. A Place of Interaction between Buddhist in India and Abroad Most Indian Buddhists are too poor to travel abroad to meet other Buddhists, and so cannot learn from them. At the same time most foreign Buddhists know nothing of the remarkable attempts by the new Buddhists to transform their individual and social lives through the practice of the Dhamma, and so lose out on a very rich source of inspiration. Many people from throughout the Buddhist world visit Nagaloka every year, besides which several international conferences have been held there.

Many leading Buddhists have visited from Taiwan and elsewhere, including the Dalai Lama, Sulak Sivaraksa and Ven Thicht Nhat Hanh.

3. A Place for Pilgrimage Central to the vision of Nagaloka is creating faith in the Buddha, At the centre of the campus there is a very beautiful statue of the Buddha walking, in the mudra of giving confidence and courage. This represents the Buddha’s compassion and helps us to remember that he spent eight months a year of his life walking the roads of 4 Nagaloka Annual Report 2011 India, continually going out to help people. Nagaloka is part of the family known as the Triratna Buddhist Community, founded by Sangharakshita in 1967.

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2. Introduction by Lokamitra

Buddhism flourished in the Indian subcontinent for over 1500 years. During this period it developed in a rich kaleidoscope of different forms. All the major schools of Buddhism worldwide can trace their origin to India.

With teachers, monks, scholars and traders constantly were travelling throughout Asia, Buddhism played a unifying role for humanity, inspiring cultures of peace, respect, compassion and beauty, and transcending the limited identities of race and language.

The decline of Buddhism in the Indian subcontinent removed a great source of inspiration for Buddhists throughout the rest of Asia although by then local schools had developed their own momentum. While Buddhism as an institutional faith died in India, it had profound and long lasting effects on Indian culture and civilisation.

Modern developments in the west have influenced societies all over the world, with regard to human rights, nation states, and government. The principles of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity have become the guiding principles of governments throughout the world. In the past Buddhism had a highly beneficial effect on the societies and cultures which it came in contact with. The combination of modernity and Buddhism today present a unique opportunity to humanity. Dr. Ambedkar was convinced that Buddhism was the only religion suitable for the modern world.

But, he said “the world cannot be reformed except reformation of the mind of man and the mind of world�.

Dr. Ambedkar found that Buddhism was the only means to effectively destroy the inequality of the caste system, and the cruelty of untouchability. More than a quarter of Indian population (that is, roughly 360 million) live below poverty line and 20 percent people (that is 200 million) live below hunger line. The vast majority of these have been dehumanised by the designation of untouchability. Buddhism, with its humane and egalitarian values and methods, can fight poverty and discrimination through the practice of the Paramita.

Dr. Ambedkar saw through Buddhism a possibility of new and just India. He made the Buddhist values of liberty, equality and fraternity the core of the Constitution of India, which he drafted.

Although he died in 1956, he inspired millions of Indians to bring back Buddhism to the land of its birth. After 55 years, this great peaceful revolution is beginning to develop a snowball effect and many millions are ready to learn and practice Buddhism to transform themselves and society.

But there is little training available and if the newly converted Buddhists get no help in this area they will not be able to overcome the cruel caste system, and Buddhism will not return to the land of its birth. This was the reason for starting the Nagarjuna Institute at Nagaloka in Nagpur.

It has been conducting a one year residential course on "Buddhism and Social Action" since 2003 during which over 650 students from 22 states have been trained. After training, most of 6

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them have been working in different parts of India to spread the teachings of the Buddha and work to improve society. They have come to believe that to spread Buddhism is to serve mankind.

Buddhism is also undergoing a thorough review in the traditional Asian Buddhist countries of south and south East Asia, while it is reviving in China and developing in the west. India is well placed to act as a meeting point for exploring the relevance of Buddhism in the modern world.

Besides the revival of Buddhism in India Nagaloka is committed to promoting interaction between Buddhists from all over the world, investigating the social implications of Buddhist practice, and exploring ways in which Buddhism can strengthen democracy in India and elsewhere. Every year Buddhist leaders such as the Dalai Lama as well as people from all over the Buddhist world and the west visit Nagaloka and contribute to this interaction, to see how they can help, through their Buddhist practice, to work together for a more humane world.

This is the beginning of the huge but achievable dream we started Nagaloka and the Nagarjuna Institute for.

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3. Revival of Buddhism in India: Training, teaching, retreats and Dhamma study

Dr. Ambedkar‟s Birth Celebration: 14th April, 2010.

Dr. Ambedkar fought for social justice throughout his life and it is because of his efforts that Scheduled Caste communities enjoy safeguards in politics, law and education. And because of his conversion to Buddhism they enjoy the possibility of a life of human dignity and social life based on the principles of liberty, equality and fraternity.

His birthday is celebrated throughout India with great joy. On this occasion, at Nagaloka we gather together near his larger than life-size statue in the campus to pay our respects and go for refuge to the Buddha, Dhamma and Sangha, just as he did in 1956 a few weeks before his passing away. This was followed this year by a seminar, organised by Dhammachari Aryashur on Liberty, Equality and Fraternity during which several student made presentations. In the evening the students organised a cultural programme.

Retreat for Nagaloka NI graduates; 1st - 10th May, 2010 Astangik Marg Retreat Centre, near Pune.

This was first of the retreats aimed at working with the Nagaloka NI graduates, these participants coming from the States of Orissa, Kerala, Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh. For the first five days we studied the Sigalavada Sutta from the Pali Canon. Although this is widely referred to as the Laymen’s Vinaya, it goes into a number of crucial areas of Dhamma practice, ethics, and especially the four speech precepts, spiritual friendship, and the application of the Dhamma to our social relationships. While the social situation at the time of the Buddha was very different, we tried to take the principles enunciated by the Buddha and apply them in today’s social

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Buddha Jayanti and Graduation Ceremony 27th May, 2010.

The full moon day on the month of May or Vaishakha Purnima is the day when Siddhartha became the Buddha. We celebrated this with a three day retreat, looking at greater depth at the Three Jewels. The culmination of that retreat took place on the full moon night marking the end of the 8th one year course of studies. Students made a commitment to try and practice the Dhamma throughout their life. 8Nagaloka Annual Report 2011

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Inauguration of the 9th Year of Studies 5th July, 2010.

Each New Year of studies is started on Dhamma Day, the full moon day of July, when the Buddha set the Wheel of the Dhamma turning at Sarnath. The chief guests were Mr. E Z Khobragade, Chairman of the Social Welfare Department, Government of Maharashtra and Ven. Khemachara from Hyderabad. 40 male and 30 female students were present.

Nagaloka Advisory meeting 20-21 August, 2010.

Nagaloka this year started twice yearly meetings of an Indian advisory body to review its various projects. At this first meeting Dhammachari Lokamitra gave an overview of all the projects – The Nagarjuna Institute (NI), the NI graduate programme and network development, local Buddhist activities, building relationship with international Buddhist communities and Nagaloka as a centre for pilgrimage, as well as of course, the financial situation. The meeting discussed the significance of these projects for the development of Buddhism in India, the difficulties each project faced, and how they could be enhanced.

Retreat for NI graduates; 23rd - 30th October, 2010.

Lokamitra and Vivekaratna led a Dhamma study retreat for 12 NI graduates, on the Sigalavada Sutta from the Pali Canon.. Discussions revolved around the difficulties of working with the suffering created by the caste system in the areas where the NI graduates were working, and especially the deeply entrenched views so many people hold, making it very difficult for them to change, even though they suffer so much from them. During the week we heard how the NI graduates responded to Nagaloka when they first attended the course. Almost all remarked on the feeling of equality they experienced when they first visited, something most of them had not experienced before.

Study Retreat on “Which Way Freedom”: 4th – 11th November, 2010.

In the year 1936, Dr. Ambedkar gave one of his most important speeches on finding a solution to the problem of caste and untouchability - essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how he set out on the path to Buddhism. Dhammachari Vivekaratna, the director of the Nagarjuna Institute, led the study, with a view to looking at the present situation of Scheduled Castes, and how we can best communicate today the teaching of the Buddha to help them escape the hell of caste and purify their minds. 9Nagaloka Annual Report 2011

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Dhamma Tour to Tamil Nadu: November 2010.

After the Tsunami in 2004, some of our NI graduates in Tamil Nadu started two hostels for Scheduled Caste children who were badly affected in the calamity. Those hostels are still going very well, and have a very joyful atmosphere. Since then our NI graduates have been also conducting Dhamma activities. There is very little known about Buddhism in Tamil Nadu, although enormous interest amongst the Scheduled Castes. Vivekaratna and Nagamitra went to keep contact with our NI graduates and to give talks on Buddhism to the general public, as well as to conduct a Buddhist wedding ceremony for one of the NI graduates. 10 Nagaloka Annual Report 2011

Community Centre in Kerala: November 2010.

There are very few Buddhists in Kerala, but over 40 NI graduates from Nagaloka, many of whom are very active in different parts of the State. Vivekaratna visited Kerala after Tamil Nadu for lectures and to finalise the purchase of a community centre Kollam District, which now serves as a base for some Dhamma and social activities. The activities that are run in Kerala include regular Dhamma classes, Dhamma tours, retreats, creating awareness of caste and how to go beyond it, as well as tuition and English classes for very poor students. In December a three day camp was held for learning English for Scheduled Caste and Buddhist women. Kerala has the highest literacy rate in India, and had a strong Communist movement for many years. Even so the Scheduled Castes experience considerable discrimination and many are seriously interested in Buddhism, as a way to develop their lives.

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School for Mushahar Children, Utter Pradesh.

Deepamala, from Kushinagar, Uttar Pradesh, studied at Nagaloka 2009-2010. She was from one of the most degraded communities, the human scavengers. After finishing at Nagaloka she started working with the Koshish (meaning “to try�) school at Malwabar village, for children from the Mushahar community. This is one of the lowest in the caste hierarchy. They have to live outside the village, are landless, survive on the verge of starvation, with no schools, no electricity, and no health centres. Many have to eat rats to survive.

The school rooms are made out of bamboo thatched hut, accommodating between 150-250 children ranging from the age of two till the age of 15. When they first find these children, they bath them, give them new clothes, and feed them. Most of the children suffer from malnutrition and the other serious deficiencies when they join the school, but after a couple of months their health condition noticeably improves.

To encourage Deepamala in this work, we have raised money to help develop the school and community centre for these children.

Dhamma Tour to Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, 4th - 6th December 2010.

Dhammachari Maitreyanath gave several lectures in and around Luck now, the capital of Utter Pradesh, which has the largest number of Scheduled Castes in India. Many are interested in Buddhism, but trained Dhamma teachers are very few. As Dr. Ambedkar passed away on 6th December, 1956, his talks centred on Dr. Ambedkar and his contribution to the revival of Buddhism in India. His talks were organised by NI graduates, and others associated with Nagaloka, and aimed to support their local activities.

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Annual Graduate Conference; 1st - 10th January, 2011 These conferences enable the NI graduates to renew connections, and strengthen the fast developing all-India network. Lokamitra gave a series of four talks looking at the situation with regard to Buddhists and Scheduled Castes, a Buddhist vision for India, an approach to Dhamma practice, and the practical tasks we need to undertake to engage in this work. There were other lectures by Mangesh, Priyadarshi, Manidhamma, Viradhamma, Maitreyanath, and Vivekaratna, exploring other aspects of this theme, as well as workshops looking at more specifically social action themes. Most inspiring was listening to the NI graduates relate how they were spreading the Dhamma and conducting social activities in their states.

Nagaloka advisory meeting: 10th - 11th January, 2011.

The Nagaloka Trustees (Vivekaratna, Maitreyanath and Lokamitra) and the Management team held its second 6 monthly review of Nagaloka activities with the advisory body, While many subjects were covered in the two day meeting, most time was spent on the question of the acute funding difficulties, and more positively on developing a thorough review of the one year course of studies.

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Padmavajra's Teaching: 17th – 28th February, 2011.

Dhammachari Padmavajra came out to India with Lokamitra in 1978, and has spent considerable time in India since then. However this was his first visit for ten years, and the first time he taught students at Nagaloka, the subject being the Bodhisattva Ideal. He is a very popular speaker, and gave a number of talks, including the Dhamma talk on the full moon day under the Walking Buddha on 18th February (every full moon day is celebrated in front of the Walking Buddha). 13 Nagaloka Annual Report2011

Nagaloka Graduate Network Development Workshop 2nd -4th March, 2011.

Astangik Marg Retreat Centre, near Pune.

The idea of this workshop was developed during the INEB executive committee meeting in Thailand last November out of a concern to explore ways to support the fast increasing number of Buddhists from the most oppressed sections of Indian society. It was organised jointly by INEB, Manuski and Nagaloka. We identified some of the needs of workers in the new Buddhist movement, especially young Dhamma workers trained at Nagaloka, a number of who were present, and started to develop strategies to support them for the next three to five years. Harsha Navaratne, Lokamitra and Mangesh Dahiwale played a leading part in the discussions.

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4. Towards Global Buddhist Community.

Introduction Most Indian Buddhists are too poor to travel abroad to meet other Buddhists, and so cannot learn from them. At the same time most foreign Buddhists know nothing of the remarkable attempts by the new Buddhists in India to transform their individual and social lives through the practice of the Dhamma, and so lose out on a very rich source of inspiration. Many people from throughout the Buddhist world visit Nagaloka every year, besides which several international conferences have been held there. Many leading Buddhists have visited from Taiwan and elsewhere, including the Dalai Lama, Sulak Sivaraksa and Ven Thicht Nhat Hanh.

54th Anniversary of Dr. Ambedkarâ€&#x;s Conversion to Buddhism – Ashok Vijaya Dashmi: 17th October, 2010.

On 17th October over 10,000 people gathered at Nagaloka to celebrate the anniversary of the day when Dr. Ambedkar converted to Buddhism in 1956 (also the day of the victory of King Ashok, that is, the real victory when he converted to Buddhism). We always try and invite friends from abroad to help them understand the situation for themselves and to provide local Buddhists with a sense of brother and sisterhood. Our chief guest this year was Harsha Navaratne the founder of the Sewalanka Foundation, Sri Lanka, and the chairman of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists (INEB). The other guests were Somboon Chungprempree (the Thai secretary of INEB), Savi Sawarkar, the most prominent artist from the Buddhist community, and Dhammacharini Vajrapushpa, the chairperson of Karuna Trust, UK.

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Seminar on “The Importance of the Buddha Image”, 18th October, 2010.

One of the most important things we have to do is to see that Buddhist teachings permeate the local culture. There are many ways in which we have to do this, one of them being to explore Buddhist symbols. We took the opportunity of the annual celebrations to explore the Buddha image. After Lokamitra gave an introduction on the spiritual significance of the Buddha image, the following fascinating presentations were made: 1. Dhammachari Manidhamma on the history of the Buddha image in India; 2. Harsha Navaratne on his own personal experience of the Buddha image in Sri Lanka; 3. The artist Savi Sawarkar on working with the Buddha image in his painting; 4. Dhammachari Professor Maitriveer Nagarjuna spoke on the significance of the Buddha image to Dr. Ambedkar.

Visit of Ami Yilin; 9th – 13th February, 2011.

Ami has been translating for Lokamitra and Mangesh during their visits to Taiwan and is keen to help make the new Buddhist Movement and especially the work at Nagaloka more well-known and appreciated in the Chinese speaking. She came out to see for herself the situation.

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Alan Senauke „s Teaching: 1st – 4th March, 2011.

Alan Senauke is a Soto Zen priest, folk musician, and poet residing at the Berkeley Zen Centre in California, where he is Vice Abbot. He was the Executive Director of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship from 1991 to 2001. He spend a couple of weeks with us early last year and was so inspired by the situation that this March he returned for a few days to teach about socially engaged Buddhism. He wrote an account of his first visit to Nagaloka in February 2010 (www.clearviewproject.org), which he endorsed on this visit; 16 Nagaloka Annual Report 2011 nowhere else have I met young people with their kind of intuitive grasp of Buddhist practice and social action arising together. Nowhere else have I had deeper discussion that never slipped into abstraction, but focused on the conditions of oppression these students know only too well. Nowhere else have I encountered anything like their determination to remake the world in peace.

My heart is with them.

“Think Sangha” Visit: 7th – 12th March, 2011.

Think Sangha is a community within INEB, who meet every two years, and interact with local Buddhist communities to try and understand their situation. This year they spent two weeks in India, mainly at Nagaloka and Deer Park in Bir, Himachal Pradesh. They spent a lot of time with the NI students, listening to their stories of their home situation, how they came to Nagaloka, and the impact of Buddhism on their lives. Members of Think Sangha were in turn able to tell something of Buddhism in their country. The Thing Sangha team consisted of: Ven. Kalupahana (Sri Lanka), David Loy (USA), Somboon Chungprempree (Thailand), Anchalee Kurutach (Thailand - living in USA), P. Alphorn (Thailand), Jonathan Watt (USA – living in Japan), Jill Jameson (Australia), Phulchari (Thailand), Wintomo (Indonesia), Pappa (Burma), Alan Senauke (USA).

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Lama Rangdol‟s Visit; 4th -11th March, 2011.

Lama Rangdol is a leading African-American teacher, who came to India to establish a link in the Dhamma between Buddhist followers of Dr. Ambedkar in India and Black American Buddhists. He thinks very highly of Dr. Ambedkar’s work, and feels that he has a lot to say of value to the modern world, Before reaching Nagaloka he gave public talks in Mumbai, Pune and Aurangabad, also leading a workshop on “Buddhism beyond Discrimination: A Quest for a New and Just Society”, at the Manuski centre, Pune. In Nagaloka, he taught the students, participated in the seminar on “Buddhism in Modern India and the World” and talked on Black American experience and Buddhism.

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Felicitation of Prof. Sukhadeo Thorat: 31st October, 2010.

Prof. Thorat is the Chairperson of the University Grants Commission in India, an extremely influential post, in which he can make sure that subjects pertaining to caste and untouchability are not ignored. He is also a highly respected academic and a prolific writer, and has made a significant contribution to understanding the situation of Scheduled Castes and Buddhists, with a view to safeguarding their basic rights. It was our honour to welcome him to Nagaloka and to appreciate his service. 19 Nagaloka Annual Report 2011

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5. Buddhist Based Social Action Conference on Manual Scavenging 27th -29th August, 2011.

Shameful, `degrading', `dehumanising', `disgusting', `obnoxious', `abhorrent', a `blot on humanity' - these are some of the words used to describe `manual scavenging', which in plain language means people lifting human excreta with their hands and carrying it on their heads, hips or shoulders. This is the traditional occupations of one Scheduled Caste or Schedule Caste, the Bhangi community. Manuski is been working on this issue for last couple of years. As an effort to advocate, eradicate such dehumanising practice, Manuski organised a conference at Nagaloka inviting a number of NGOs and individuals from Maharashtra, UP, Bihar, Haryana, West Bengal, Delhi, Rajasthan and Gujarat, who are working on the issue, to discuss and come up with strategies to get rid of this evil from Indian society.

Study class on Human Rights for Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes. 21-22 February 2011.

While the study retreat was going on, this seminar on Human Rights was being conducted for the current students, by members of the Manuski Network. The Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes form approximately 25% of the Indian population. They still suffer enormous discrimination and violence, and are mostly extremely poor and otherwise socially disadvantaged. In Pune, through the Manuski Network, and in Nagaloka, with the students, we are trying to help people affected to understand that they can change the situation and explore different means of doing so. This was concluded with a workshop on atrocities against Scheduled Castes and Buddhists, which are still extremely common all over India.

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The Manuski Network (part of the Jambudvipa Trust, Pune, which Lokamitra and colleagues initiated in 1998) is concerned with training social workers and activists from the discriminated 20Nagaloka Annual Report 2011 communities (Scheduled Castes [formerly known as untouchables and often known as Dalits today] and Tribes), with a view to taking more initiative to change their situation, work on Human Rights, and much more. The earth quake relief work and hostels in Gujarat, as well as the Tsunami hostels in Tamil Nadu were started under Manuski’s auspices.

Study on “Annihilation of Caste”: 24th - 31st December, 2011.

This is perhaps Dr. Ambedkar’s most famous and dynamic writing, written just before “Which Way Freedom”. In this he shows what must be done to eradicate caste and untouchability in India. It was his very last attempt to reform Hinduism. The study was led by Maitriveer Nagarjuna, a professor in Hyderabad University for students and graduates of Nagarjuna Institute.

Conference on “The Annihilation of Caste: The Next step”; 18th – 20th February, 2011.

This was initiated by Manuski, and organised in conjunction with Nagaloka. The Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes constitute one fourth of India's population, over 300 million people.

Although their situation has changed in the last 60 years since Independence, they remain the poorest, least educated people in India, with very limited access to employment, vulnerable to discrimination and caste-based violence and often treated worse than animals. Various national and international agencies are working in India on a number of social issues, but the extent to which the caste system still exerts a stranglehold on Indian society is rarely appreciated and given due attention.

This conference brought together grass root activists from different discriminated backgrounds in Maharashtra. They all shared the view that as long as caste remains a significant factor in the mechanics of Indian society, democracy, egalitarianism, and development will be severely limited. The most important way forward was Dr. Ambedkar’s solution of conversion to, and practice of Buddhism, and this needed to be given much more serious attention by activists, NGOs, and international funding organisations (Karuna Trust and Action Aid were represented in the conference). Those present committed themselves to doing all they could to take this forward.

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6. How you can help

In order to continue and develop this work of reviving Buddhism in India we have prioritised four areas A. 10 month course in Buddhism and Social Action for 100 Students.

Supports food for one day for 100 students.

US$100 Rs 4,500 This can be given in the name of a relative or temple.

B. Development of an All-India Network of Dhamma Workers and Social Activists Supports further training for one Dhamma worker or a social activist for one year. (In all 30 Dhamma workers) C.

Rs 45,000

US$ 7,000

Rs 300,000

Construction of Community Centres

For Dhamma and Social Work in Slums and Villages.

D.

US$ 1000

Development of Residential Facilities for Students at Nagaloka

Accommodation for 60 Students

US$183,000

RS 8235000

Meditation Hall for 60 Students

US$50,000

RS 2250000

Large Classroom, Common Area and Meeting Hall for 60 Students

US$ 50,000

RS 2250000

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