Buddha Bhavan, Siddharth College, Fort, Bombay
Bombay, India · 1955
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18.94080°N, 72.83470°E
Key Facts
- ◆ Located in the Fort area of Bombay, in Ambedkar's office on the top floor of Buddha Bhavan, one of the buildings of Siddharth College of Arts and Science.
- ◆ The meeting took place on 25 December 1955.
- ◆ Ambedkar was so crippled by arthritis he received Sangharakshita sitting down and apologised for it.
- ◆ Ambedkar asked Sangharakshita to write explaining what conversion to Buddhism meant, and to speak to his followers; Sangharakshita complied.
- ◆ As a direct result, on New Year's Day 1956 Sangharakshita addressed 3,000 people at Worli on 'What it Means to Become a Buddhist'.
“We met not in Dadar but in the Fort area of Bombay, in Dr Ambedkar’s office on the top floor of Buddha Bhavan, one of the buildings of the Siddharth College of Arts and Science.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
“He was unwilling to let us go. Or rather, he was unwilling to let me go, for it was solely to me that he addressed himself throughout the meeting.”
— In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
Source: In the Sign of the Golden Wheel
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