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Jain and Ancient
Parts of Ancient India and Nepal where Buddhism originated were also for long periods Buddhist, and whether as a result of the Buddhist, Jain or Hindu promotion of the principle of ahimsa ( harmlessness ) many Indians remain vegetarian.
Ancient Jain temples across India typically see an extremely high volume of practitioners come to pay their respects and join in the celebrations.
In 1992, two exhibitions opened showcasing loaned and permanent collection objects: " Metalwork and Ceramics from Ancient Iran " and " Buddhist and Jain Sculpture from South Asia.
Ancient Tamil Jain Classic ' Choodamani Nigandu ' describes the eight characteristics in a beautiful poem, which is given below.
Other tourist locations include Thirparappu Waterfalls, Hanging Bridge in Mathoor, Ancient Jain Temple in Chitharal ( a small village situated at a distance of 8 km from Marthandam.
Ancient Jain Tirtha ==
Jain and for
Non-violence is seen as the most essential religious duty for everyone (, a statement often inscribed on Jain temples ).
There is some evidence, however, that ancient Jain ascetics accepted meat as alms if the animal had not been specifically killed for them.
Jain communities accepted the use of military power for their defense, and there were Jain monarchs, military commanders, and soldiers.
“ There is some evidence that Jain traditions may be even older than the Buddhist traditions, and that Vardhamana rather than being a “ founder ” per se was, rather, simply a primary spokesman for much older tradition.
The Great Vows are prescribed for Jain monastics while limited vows ( anuvrata ) are prescribed for householders.
The special Jinas who not only rediscover dharma but also preach it for the Jain community are called Tirthankara.
The Jain monks and nuns remain where they happen to be for four months until the 14th day of Kartik Shukla.
This painting was made for a practitioner of the Jain religion.
The interim report of the Jain Commission created a storm when it accused Karunanidhi of a role in the assassination, leading to Congress withdrawing its support for the I. K. Gujral government and fresh elections in 1998.
Prohibitions for hunting and meat eating are the fundamental conditions for being a Jain.
Ayodhya has a historical significance for the Jain community too.
* Mutt, alternate spelling for Matha, a Hindu or Jain religious establishment
A Jain temple is the place of worship for Jains, the followers of Jainism.
Emperor Samprati is regarded as the " Jain Ashoka " for his patronage and efforts to spreading Jainism in east India.
As Jain monks do not travel overseas, he recommended the bright young scholar Virchand Gandhi to be the emissary for the religion.
Jain ascetics do not stay in a single place for more than two months to prevent attachment to any place.
Neither group will beg for food, but a Jain ascetic may accept a meal from a householder, provided that the latter is pure of mind and body and offers the food of his own volition and in the prescribed manner.
Having kept his animosity with the Jain monks, he asks to be made King for 4 months during Chaturmas ( a holy time for the Jains ).
The ill-man decides to take advantage of the situation by ordering that he must eat all Jain Muni's meal, making them not eat for the rest of the day as the food would be considered contaminated.
Jain and West
The first Jain temple to be built outside India was constructed and consecrated in the 1960s in Mombasa, Kenya by the local Gujarati Jain community, although Jainism in the West mostly came about after the Oswal and Jain diaspora spread to the West in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Jain temples in North India are completely different from the Jain temples in South India, which in turn are quite different from Jain temples in West India.
Jain and .
A major characteristic of Jain belief is the emphasis on the consequences of not only physical but also mental behaviors.
In India, the Ājīvika, Jain, and Cārvāka schools of atomism may date back to the 6th century BCE.
* Umāsvāti or Umasvami ( 2nd Century CE ), author of first Jain work in Sanskrit, Tattvārthasūtra, expounding the Jain philosophy in a most systematized form acceptable to all sects of Jainism.
Soniji Ki Nasiyan is an architecturally rich Digambara Jain temple.
The main chamber, known as the Swarna Nagari " City of Gold ", has several gold-plated wooden figures, depicting several figures in the Jain religion.
Nareli Jain Temple is a relatively new Jain temple.
Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.
The traditional Buddhist understanding of non-violence is not as rigid as the Jain one, but like the Jains, Buddhists have always condemned the killing of all living beings.
The hand with a wheel on the palm symbolizes the Jain Vow of Ahimsa.
When Mahavira revived and reorganized the Jain movement in the 6th or 5th century BCE, ahimsa was already an established, strictly observed rule.
Parshva, the earliest Jain Tirthankara, whom modern Western historians consider to be a historical figure, lived in about the 8th century BCE.
According to the Jain tradition either lacto vegetarianism or veganism is mandatory.
The Jain concept of ahimsa is characterized by several aspects.
Some Jains abstain from farming because it inevitably entails unintentional killing or injuring of many small animals, such as worms and insects, but agriculture is not forbidden in general and there are Jain farmers.
Among the five-sensed beings, the rational ones ( humans ) are most strongly protected by Jain ahimsa.
The general Jain code of ethics requires that one do no harm to any living being in thought, action, or word.
In September 2010, Barrymore was confirmed to play the role of Ganga in the Indian Bollywood film The Lifestyle – In Generation Next to be directed by Santosh Kumar Jain, to be released in 2012.
This view was elaborated in traditional Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology, which depicts the cosmos as a vast, flat oceanic disk ( of the magnitude of a small planetary system ), bounded by mountains, in which the continents are set as small islands.
Structure of Universe as per the Jain Scriptures.
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