{"id":690,"date":"2001-04-12T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2001-04-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/04\/12\/2001-04-12-dalai-lama-comments-on-dalit-conversion\/"},"modified":"2001-04-12T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2001-04-12T12:00:00","slug":"2001-04-12-dalai-lama-comments-on-dalit-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2001\/04\/12\/2001-04-12-dalai-lama-comments-on-dalit-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Dalai Lama Comments on Dalit Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A HREF=\"http:\/\/www.timesofindia.com\/today\/10indi36.htm\">GO TO SOURCE<\/A><\/P><br \/>\n<P><\/p>\n<p>KOLKATA, INDIA, April 10, 2001: The Dalai Lama on Monday said the proposed mass conversion of one million Indian Dalits (&#8220;untouchables&#8221;) to Buddhism on October 14 would give those embracing the religion an equal standing in society. &#8220;I am always expressing, telling and sharing with new Buddhists, particularly those from so-called lower castes, that taking to Buddhism should not result in resentment among other religions. If some people from India follow the dharma, it is good. After all, I describe Buddhism and Hinduism as twin brothers and sisters,&#8221; he said.<br \/>\n<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GO TO SOURCE KOLKATA, INDIA, April 10, 2001: The Dalai Lama on Monday said the proposed mass conversion of one,&#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-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","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=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}