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	==Publication history==		==Publication history==
	''The Buddha and His Dhamma'' was first published in 1957 in the year following Ambedkar's death on 6 December 1956. Written in English, the book has been translated to many languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, and Kannada.{{cn\|date=August 2017}}		''The Buddha and His Dhamma'' was first published in 1957 in the year following Ambedkar's death on 6 December 1956. Written in English, the book has been translated to many languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, Bengali and Kannada.{{cn\|date=August 2017}}

	It was republished in 1979 as the eleventh volume of Ambedkar's collected writings and speeches, with a list of sources and an index.<ref>{{cite book \|first=Babasheb, Dr. \|last=Ambedkar \|author-link=B. R. Ambedkar \|year=1979 \|orig-year=1957 \|title=The Buddha and His Dhamma \|series=Dr. Babasheb Ambedkar, writings and speeches \|volume=11 \|department=Education Department \|publisher=Government of [[Maharashtra]] \|url=http://drambedkarwritings.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/Volume_11.pdf \|access-date=2021-03-22}}</ref>		It was republished in 1979 as the eleventh volume of Ambedkar's collected writings and speeches, with a list of sources and an index.<ref>{{cite book \|first=Babasheb, Dr. \|last=Ambedkar \|author-link=B. R. Ambedkar \|year=1979 \|orig-year=1957 \|title=The Buddha and His Dhamma \|series=Dr. Babasheb Ambedkar, writings and speeches \|volume=11 \|department=Education Department \|publisher=Government of [[Maharashtra]] \|url=http://drambedkarwritings.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/Volume_11.pdf \|access-date=2021-03-22}}</ref>

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{{short description|Holy book of Navayana Buddhism}}
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'''''The Buddha and His Dhamma''''', is a treatise on [[Gautama Buddha|Buddha's]] life and [[Buddhism|philosophy]]. It was the last work of Indian statesman and scholar [[B. R. Ambedkar]]. According to Queen (2015),<ref name=Queen-2015/> the text is treated as scripture for those who follow [[Navayana]] Buddhism.<ref name=Queen-2015>{{cite book |author=Queen, Christopher |editor=Emmanuel, Steven M. |title=A Companion to Buddhist Philosophy |year=2015 |publisher=John Wiley & Sons |isbn=978-1-119-14466-3 |pages=529–531 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=P_lmCgAAQBAJ}}</ref>

==Publication history==
''The Buddha and His Dhamma'' was first published in 1957 in the year following Ambedkar's death on 6 December 1956. Written in English, the book has been translated to many languages, including Hindi, Gujarati, Telugu, Tamil, Marathi, Malayalam, and Kannada.{{cn|date=August 2017}}

It was republished in 1979 as the eleventh volume of Ambedkar's collected writings and speeches, with a list of sources and an index.<ref>{{cite book |first=Babasheb, Dr. |last=Ambedkar |author-link=B. R. Ambedkar |year=1979 |orig-year=1957 |title=The Buddha and His Dhamma |series=Dr. Babasheb Ambedkar, writings and speeches |volume=11 |department=Education Department |publisher=Government of [[Maharashtra]] |url=http://drambedkarwritings.gov.in/upload/uploadfiles/files/Volume_11.pdf |access-date=2021-03-22}}</ref>

B.R. Ambedkar mentioned that it is one of the three books which he believed to form a set for the proper understanding of Buddhism. The other two books are:
* ''Buddha and Karl Marx''; and
* ''Revolution and Counter-Revolution in Ancient India''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_buddha/00_pref_unpub.html |title=Preface / unpublished |author=Ambedkar, B.R. |publisher=Columbia University}}</ref>

==In popular culture==
A Hindi-language film, ''[[A Journey of Samyak Buddha]]'', is based on ''The Buddha and His Dhamma''.<ref>{{cite web | title=Film on Buddha based on Ambedkar's book to be released on March 15 | date=13 March 2013 | newspaper=[[The Times of India]] | url=http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-13/nagpur/37681977_1_lord-buddha-film-director-dhamm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131115025328/http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2013-03-13/nagpur/37681977_1_lord-buddha-film-director-dhamm | url-status=dead | archive-date=15 November 2013 | access-date=19 July 2013}}</ref>

==See also==
* [[A Journey of Samyak Buddha]]
* [[B. R. Ambedkar bibliography]]

==References==
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==Bibliography==
* {{cite book |last=Ambedkar |first=Bhimrao Ramji |year=2011 |editor1-last=Rathore |editor1-first=Aakash Singh |editor2-last=Verma |editor2-first=Ajay |title=The Buddha and his Dhamma: A critical edition |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780198068679}}
* Baumann, Martin (1991). [https://www.jstor.org/stable/23894665 "Neo-Buddhistische Konzeptionen in Indien und England: Zum 100. Geburtstag Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkars"]. ''{{ill|Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte|de}}'', ''43'' (2), pp. 97-116.
* Fiske, Adele & Emmrich, Christoph (2004). The use of Buddhist scriptures in B.R. Ambedkar's ''The Buddha and His Dhamma''. [In] Jondhale, Surendra; Beltz, Johannes (eds.). ''Reconstructing the World: B.R. Ambedkar and Buddhism in India''. New Delhi: Oxford University Press.
* {{cite book |last=Sangharakshita |year=1986 |chapter=The Buddha and his Dhamma |title=Ambedkar and Buddhism |publisher=Windhorse |edition=1st |url=https://www.sangharakshita.org/_books/Ambedkar_and_Buddhism.pdf}}

==External links==
* {{cite web |url=http://www.columbia.edu/itc/mealac/pritchett/00ambedkar/ambedkar_buddha/ |title=The Buddha And His Dhamma |publisher=Columbia University}} Book Online

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