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...
| Published in: | Indo-Iranian journal |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Brill
[2020]
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Indo-Iranian journal
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
India
/ Buddhism
/ Caste
/ Social system
/ Rejection of
/ Paria
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| IxTheo Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy BL Buddhism KBM Asia |
| Further subjects: | B
Buddhism
B Discrimination B caṇḍāla B Prejudice B Caste B ancient India |
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| Summary: | 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 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Indo-Iranian journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15728536-06302003 |