Hundreds of people were waiting as the train drew in from Bombay. Waving garlands, banners and lamps they roared as a smiling, orange-robed figure stepped down. The crowds came from the poorest section of Indian society, but the monk they were greeting hailed from Tooting, London.
Terry Pilchick (Nagabodhi) was a witness to this crazy reversal of the guru syndrome and other extraordinary results of a revolution begun by Dr. B.R. Ambedkar thirty years earlier. It was then that Dr Ambedkar – champion of India’s 60 million ‘Untouchables’ - had led a peaceful revolt. Leaving behind the oppression of the caste system, he and his followers had converted to Buddhism.
Jai Bhim! is a colourful, humorous yet moving meeting with these new Buddhists and the unique revolution they are building in the city slums and remote villages of modern India.
‘A travel book which can extend the moral as well as the imaginative ... horizons of the reader.’ Faith and Freedom Also available as a free download.
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