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caste system
Title: caste system
Category: History
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caste system
In the Hindu lands of ancient India, there was a class structure called the caste system. It divided the society
into four, well defined groups. It was born of dharma which dictated a rigid class structure. In spite of the
divisions among different class members, the system worked well. Buddhism came along and challenged
the notion. Buddha taught that birth and the happenstance of who or what your parents were, was not a
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…showed last 75 words of 1146 total…destroyed the bonds of becoming; he is free in his perfect wisdom."(SOIT
132). Buddha says "whoever among the classes" meaning that anyone who wants to enter monkhood can
and is free to do so at any time, regardless of class. It would be his own desire to do so, and not his place in
society.
The caste system worked and continued to function despite good arguments to the contrary by the
Buddha and his followers.
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