On Bhante Rahula recent trip to India, he visited places and with people touch by the great Indian leader, Dr. Ambedkar, a lawyer and physician who was
born into the untouchable class in India. Dr. Ambedkar overcame great obstacles in his life and became a Buddhist practitioner and teacher. He is credited with cultivation of Buddhism in the untouchable class in India, hence creating a resurgence of Buddhism in India in the 1950s. This resurgence of Buddhism is compared and contrasted to the Buddhist movement in the United States in the 1960s.