Thathagata Buddha Songs: Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh > Tathagata Buddha songs, which this paper studies, has been specifically enabling for Dalit women as it gives them not only a sense of religiosity but it also opens them to the possibility of rationalizing their beliefs and practices. > The paper will bring up an ethnographic account of some of these Dalit women singers and look into some of their composition and songs that have a specific invocation to Gautam Buddha and of political icons like Babasaheb Ambedkar, whom they revere.

📰 Buddhism as Religion and Cultural-Resistance among Dalit Women Singers of Uttar Pradesh (A free, 12-page article from 2020)

Tags: #ModernIndian #Buddhastatue #Caste #Navayana