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Get the Flash Player to see this player. Screen interviews from “The Negro and the American Promise”, produced by Boston public television station WGBH in spring 1963 (the program aired in a climate of racial conflict, just months after Alabama governor George Wallace’s defiant support of “segregation forever”, and before the March on Washington) and hosted by Dr. Kenneth Clark psychology professor, City College of New York. Interviewee: Martin Luther King Baptist minister, Atlanta, Georgia. (Reverend Martin Luther King responds to Malcolm X’s criticisms of his philosophy.)

Get the Flash Player to see this player. Screen interviews from “The Negro and the American Promise”, produced by Boston public television station WGBH in spring 1963 (the program aired in a climate of racial conflict, just months after Alabama governor George Wallace’s defiant support of “segregation forever”, and before the March on Washington) and hosted by Dr. Kenneth Clark psychology professor, City College of New York. Interviewee: Malcolm X Nation of Islam minister, Harlem, New York.

Buddha and the Future of His Religion
Dr. B.R. Ambedkar

Out of the many founders of Religion there are four whose religions have not only moved the world in the past but are still having a sway over vast masses of people. They are Buddha, Jesus, Mohammed and Krishna. A comparison of the personalities of these four and the poses they assumed in propagating their religions reveals certain points of contrast between the Buddha on the one hand and the rest on the other which are not without significance.

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1. I shall have no faith in Brahma, Vishnu and Maheshwara nor shall I worship them.
2. I shall have no faith in Rama and Krishna who are believed to be incarnation of God nor shall I worship them.
3. I shall have no faith in Gauri, Ganapati and other gods and goddesses of Hindus nor shall I worship them.
4. I do not believe in the incarnation of God.
5. I do not and shall not believe that Lord Buddha was the incarnation of Vishnu. I believe this to be sheer madness and false propaganda.

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The credo of Jai Bhim Network is the „Dauazasj si doj da zminc”, the 22 vows based on Dr. Babasaheb Bhim Rao Ramji Ambedkar’s text written in October 1956. Half of the vows is unchangedly adopted to our need, but the other half is adjusted according today’s local context. The first two paragraphs we use, are much older then the rest of the text, for those originate in the two-thousand-year old Pali Canon. We chose the translation made by Lajos Erőss in 1906. There are eleven vows (no 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 17, 18, 19) the meaning of which only make sense in the social context of India, so we used sentences to suit our life in today’s Hungary instead.

22 Vows

1. I do not believe something just because it has been passed along and retold for many generations.
I do not believe something merely because it has become a traditional practice.
I do not believe something simply because it is well-known everywhere.
I do not believe something solely on the grounds of logical reasoning.
I do not believe something merely because it accords with my philosophy.
I do not believe something because it appeals to „common sense”.
I do not believe something just because I like the idea.
I do not believe something because the speaker seems trustworthy.
I do not believe something thinking, „This is what our teacher says”.
2. Kesamuttisuttam.
3. I will take responsibility for my own life.
4. I will not allow to anyone to dominate or control me.
5. I do not believe that the Buddha was the incarnation of God. I believe this to be sheer madness and false propaganda.

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