Jain monks and nuns practice complete abstinence from any sexual activity.

Jain monks and nuns walk barefoot and sweep the ground in front of them to avoid killing insects or other tiny beings.

Jain monks and nuns travel on foot.

During this 18 day period Jain scholars and monks visit temples and explain the Jain philosophy.

The Jain monks and nuns remain where they happen to be for four months until the 14th day of Kartik Shukla.

At an older age, Chandragupta renounced his throne and material possessions to join a wandering group of Jain monks.

As Jain monks do not travel overseas, he recommended the bright young scholar Virchand Gandhi to be the emissary for the religion.

As per the Jain vows, the monks and nuns renounce all relations and possessions.

Some Jain monks wear a cloth over the mouth to prevent accidental harm to airborne germs and insects.

Jain monks and nuns practice complete celibacy.

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 ).

Tonsure is the practice of some Christian churches and some Hindu, Jain and Buddhist ( usually only monks or nuns ) temples of shaving or plucking the hair from the scalp of priests and nuns as a symbol of their renunciation of worldly fashion and esteem.

Mehta quoted writings of 18th century Jain monks stating Ayodhya was the place where five Jain tirthankars, Rishabhdeo, Ajitnath, Abhinandannath, Sumatinath and Anantnath stayed.

# Nayasara – A village headman who secured or partial enlightenment in this birth on account of preaching of true dharma by Jain monks.

Jain monks go to lengths to avoid killing any living creature, sweeping the ground in front of them in order to avoid killing insects, and even wearing a face mask to avoid inhaling the smallest fly.

Category: Indian Jain monks

Like Naga Sadhus, the Digambar sect of Jain monks of India, remain unclothed.

Xuanzang mentions having come across Digambar Jain monks in Taxila during his 7th century CE visit to India, in the same Punjab region where Alexander encountered the gymnosophists.

Most Hindu, Buddhist and Jain monks take the vow for life, committing themselves to work of religious service and study.

As per the Jain vows, the monks and nuns renounce all relations and possessions.

Some Jain monks wear a cloth over the mouth to prevent accidental harm to airborne germs and insects.

Jain monks and nuns practice complete celibacy.

Tirthankaras revitalize Jain Society by organisation of fourfold Jain Order consisting of monks, nuns, laymen and laywomen.

Although monastery in English often refers to a cloister of Christian monks, the term encompasses communities of either monks or nuns, who may live in community ( cenobites ) or alone ( hermits ), and in the Buddhist, Hindu, and Jain traditions as well as the Christian.

Buddhist scriptures attest that some of the first Buddhists were Jains ( Nirgranthas ) who " converted ", but were encouraged by the Buddha to maintain their Jain identity and practises such as giving alms to Jain monks and nuns.

Jain ascetics practice complete nonviolence.

The Buddhist practice of this does not extend to the extremes exhibited by Jainism, but from both the Buddhist and Jain perspectives, non-violence suggests an intimate involvement with, and relationship to, all living things.

Jain ascetics practice complete non-violence.

Karuā is associated with the Jain practice of compassion.

Tamil Jains or Camaṇar (, from Jain Prakrit samaṇa " wandering renunciate ") are a Tamil people from the Indian state of Tamil Nadu who practice Digambara Jainism (, ).

The practice is also common among Buddhist and Jain sages.

More recent work by scholars suggests that the Ajivika were perhaps misrepresented by Jain and Buddhist sources. Brockhorst's claim is that, whereas the Jains teach that one can both stop the influx of new karma and rid oneself of old karma through ascetic practice, Gosāla taught that one could only stop the influx of new karma.

The earliest introduction and spread of Aryan religious practice in Dakhin Kosala came with the initial incursion of the Jain religion.

Jain ascetics follow a strict vegetarian diet without root vegetables.

Jain ascetics follow a strict vegetarian diet without root vegetables.

The Jain text of Kalpasutra describes Mahavira's asceticism in detail, from whom most of the ascetic practices are derived:

Fasting ( i. e., abstinence from food and sometimes water ) is a routine feature of Jain asceticism.

Fasting ( i. e., abstinence from food and sometimes water ) is a routine feature of Jain asceticism.

The bhakti movement, which both parallels and was an influence upon northern Vaishnava bhakti, asserted a positive and devotional quality missing in Buddhist and Jain asceticism, yet still inherited from those religions a certain antinomianism, particularly a rebellion against caste and privilege.

Buddhism separates itself from the Jain tradition by teaching an alternative to " extreme asceticism ".

[...] he popularity of the Ājīvika doctrine in ancient times, such that it could rival that of both Jainism and Buddhism, also make sense if this doctrine was really not so radically different from these traditions as its presentation in Jain and Buddhist sources suggests.

Ironically Jain himself considers this species to be likely identical to Titanosaurus indicus, found in the same formation and named in 1877, which would make Jainosaurus septentrionalis a younger synonym.