{"id":12356,"date":"2007-05-27T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/05\/27\/thousands-of-dalits-convert-to-buddhism-in-mass-ceremony-in-mumbai\/"},"modified":"2007-05-27T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T12:00:00","slug":"thousands-of-dalits-convert-to-buddhism-in-mass-ceremony-in-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2007\/05\/27\/thousands-of-dalits-convert-to-buddhism-in-mass-ceremony-in-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands of Dalits Convert to Buddhism in Mass Ceremony in Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.zeenews.com\/articles.asp?aid=373739&#038;sid=NAT&#038;ssid=\">www.zeenews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">MUMBAI, INDIA, May 27, 2007: Thousands of followers of Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar on Sunday embraced Buddhism at a function here. The function was organized to commemorate the golden jubilee of the Buddha dhamma deeksha (conversion to Buddhism) by hundreds of thousands of Ambedkar&#8217;s followers in Nagpur in 1956. Most of those who embraced Buddhism at today&#8217;s event were supporters of former legislator Laxman Mane. &#8220;Thousands of people from 42 nomadic tribes in the state have embraced Buddhism,&#8221; Mane said. Lok Sabha member and Republican Party of India President Ramdas Athawale, who was chairman of the organizing committee, said the function was a dream come true for Ambedkar&#8217;s followers. &#8220;After the tremendous success of the Buddha dhamma deeksha function on October 14, 1956, Ambedkar had planned a similar program at Mumbai&#8217;s Race Course grounds on December 16, 1956,&#8221; Athawale said. Ambedkar died on December six and the function could not be held. Athawale gave a 22-point oath to the new converts to Buddhism. &#8220;I will not believe in Bramha, Vishnu, Mahesh, Ram and Krishna or any Hindu god,&#8221; the oath said in part.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.zeenews.com MUMBAI, INDIA, May 27, 2007: Thousands of followers of Dalit icon Babasaheb Ambedkar on Sunday embraced Buddhism at a,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}