Wikipedia's article on Dhammachakra Pravartan Din, community-edited. Reliable for the standard, well documented date and scale of the event: B.R. Ambedkar's mass conversion ceremony at Deekshabhoomi in Nagpur on 14 and 15 October 1956, in which he and a large number of followers renounced Hinduism and took the Buddhist refuge and precepts, six weeks before Ambedkar's own death; not the right source for a contested claim about the movement's later doctrinal development, Navayana, which needs a dedicated scholarly source.
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AuthorWikipedia contributors
PublisherWikipedia
Publication Year2026
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dhammachakra_Pravartan_Din
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Reliability Tier3
Community-edited reference page, tier 3. Used for the settled date and scale of the 1956 Nagpur conversion ceremony; the broader Navayana movement's doctrinal shape is cited separately to Harvey's academic survey. NotesUsed for the 14 to 15 October 1956 date and scale of Ambedkar's mass conversion at Deekshabhoomi, Nagpur.
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