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 caṇḍāla s. The rhetoric foun...
| Publicado en: | Indo-Iranian Journal Vol. 63; no. 2; pp. 128 - 188 |
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Brill Academic Publishers
2020
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| Sumario: | 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 caṇḍāla s. The rhetoric found in Indian Buddhist literature regarding caṇḍāla s is examined in this paper. |
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