Deekshabhoomi
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Key facts
- Building.name
- Deekshabhoomi
- Building.image
- Dheekshabhoomi in Nagpur.jpg
- Building.caption
- Deekshabhoomi Stupa
- Building.location
- Nagpur, Maharashtra, India
- Building.address
- South Ambazari Road, Abhyankar Nagar, Nagpur
- Building.construction_start_date
- July 1978
- Building.inauguration_date
- 18 December 2001
- Building.architect
- Sheo Dan Mal, Shashi Sharma
- Building.building_type
- Religious and historical monument
- Building.architectural_style
- Stupa
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Architecture
- Construction
- Stupa
- Vihar and the Bodhi Tree
- Tourism
- Literature
- See also
- References
- External links
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Deekshabhoomi, also written as Deeksha Bhoomi, is a sacred monument of Navayana Buddhism located in Nagpur city in the state of Maharashtra in India; where B. R. Ambedkar with approximately of his followers, mainly Dalits, embraced Buddhism on Ashoka Vijaya Dashami on 14 October 1956. Ambedkar played a significant role in the revival of Buddhism in India, and inspired many such mass conversions to Buddhism.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Deekshabhoomi” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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