Mahavira's sermons were preserved orally by his immediate disciples known as Ganadharas in the Jain Agamas.

The story of Ajatasatru is found in Buddhists Tripitakas and Jain Agamas.

On the other hand Uvavai / Aupapātika sutta, which is the first Upānga ( see Jain Agamas ) of the Jains throws light on the relation between Mahavira and Ajatasatru.

* Jain Agamas

* Jain Agamas, texts of Jainism

Jain Prakrit is a term loosely used for the language of the Jain Agamas ( canonical texts ).

* Jain Agamas

A major characteristic of Jain belief is the emphasis on the consequences of not only physical but also mental behaviors.

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.

A major characteristic of Jain belief is the emphasis on the consequences of not only physical but also mental behaviours.

The special Jinas who not only rediscover dharma but also preach it for the Jain community are called Tirthankara.

* Paryushana is the most important festival among the Jain festivals. It is also known as Dashlakshan parva. It happens during late August / September commencing on the twelfth day of the fortnight of the waning moon cycle and ending in the fourteenth of the fortnight of the waxing moon cycle.

Theistic schools of Hinduism such as Vedanta thus disagree with the Buddhist and Jain views and other Hindu views that karma is merely a law of cause and effect but rather is also dependent on the will of a personal supreme God.

Jain scriptures also describe nigodas, which are sub-microscopic creatures living in large clusters and having a very short life and are said to pervade each and every part of universe, even in tissues of plants and flesh of animals.

The Jain agamas also stand testimony to the visit of Mahavira, Jainism's last tirthankara, to this city.

There are other versions of the Ramayana, notably Ramavataram in Tamil, the Buddhist ( Dasaratha Jataka No. 461 ) and Jain in India, and also Cambodian, Indonesian, Philippine, Thai, Lao, Burmese and Malay versions of the tale.

It may be noted that all the Jain monuments of Rajasthan and Gujarat, with unknown builders are also attributed to Emperor Samprati

Gandhi represented Jains in Chicago because the Great Jain Saint Param Pujya Acharya Vijayanandsuri, also known as Acharya Atmaram, was invited to represent the Jain religion at the first World Parliament of Religions.

Mount Meru (), also called Sumeru i. e. the " Excellent Meru " and Mahameru i. e. " Great Meru ", is a sacred mountain in Jain cosmology, Hindu as well as Buddhist cosmology and is considered to be the center of all the physical, metaphysical and spiritual universes.

Kubera has also been assimilated into the Buddhist and Jain pantheons.

Gujarat is also the location of the Jain festival of Deva Devali, two weeks later, around the full moon day of Kartik.

Osho ( 11 December 1931 – 19 January 1990 ), born Chandra Mohan Jain, and also known as Acharya Rajneesh from the 1960s onwards, as Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh during the 1970s and 1980s and as Osho from 1989, was an Indian mystic, guru, and spiritual teacher who garnered an international following.

Asked to leave after conflicts with an instructor, he transferred to D. N. Jain College, also in Jabalpur.

Toranas are associated with Buddhist stupas like the Great Stupa in Sanchi, as well as with Jain and Hindu structures, and also with several secular structures.

During this period, the Guptas were supportive of thriving Buddhist and Jain cultures as well, and for this reason there is also a long history of non-Hindu Gupta period art.

Kallil Kshethram ( Jain temple ) near Perumabavoor is also very famous.

* Jainism, also known as Jain Dharma ( ज ै न धर ् म ), is a religion and philosophy

Some Jain and Rasau ( heroic poets ) poetry works are also available from this period.

– In this chapter the word ' shramana ' is used ( 2-7-1 ) in the meaning of an ascetic ( tapasvin ); this word was later used also for the Buddhist and Jain ascetics.

The mountain is also home to several Hindu temples, including the Adhar Devi Temple ( also known as Arbuda Devi Temple ), carved out of solid rock ; the Shri Raghunathji Temple ; and a shrine and temple to Dattatreya built atop the Guru Shikhar peak and a number of Jain temples including Dilwara Temples, a complex of temples carved of white marble that was built between the 11th and 13th centuries AD.

Furthermore, according to Jain texts, root vegetables contain infinite microorganisms called nigodas.

Certain Vedic Hindu holy books contain beautiful narrations about various Jain Tirthankaras ( e. g. Lord Rushabdev ).

When Misty has a migrane, she goes to Dr. Touchet, who tells her about the Jain Buddhists, the Essene Jews, and the early Christians, and gives her some capsules which he claims contain " green algae mostly, some white willow bark, a little bee pollen.

Jain communities accepted the use of military power for their defense, and there were Jain monarchs, military commanders, and soldiers.

Some scholars restrict the use of the term " Prakrit " to the languages used by Hindu and Jain writers only ; others include the Buddhist languages, such as Pali and Buddhist Hybrid Sanskrit, and the inscriptional Prakrits.

Samprati built thousands of Jain Temples in India, many of which are still in use, such as the Jain temples at Viramgam and Palitana ( Gujarat ), Agar Malwa ( Ujjain ).

It has been argued that the approving use of the term “ Brahmin ” in Buddhist and Jain texts shows that even these socially critical movements were comfortable with a caste structured society as long as obligations and privileges accorded to the various castes were justly distributed ( cf.

It is said that Samprati built thousands of Jain Temples in India, many of which are still in use, such as the Jain temples at Viramgam and Palitana ( Gujarat ), Agar Malwa ( Ujjain ).

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Unlike in Hindu and Jain sources, in ancient Buddhist texts ahimsa ( or its Pāli cognate ) is not used as a technical term.

The actual process of change from one life to the next is called punarbhava ( Sanskrit ) or punabbhava ( Pāli ), literally " becoming again ", or more briefly bhava, " becoming ", and some English-speaking Buddhists prefer the term " rebirth " or " re-becoming " to render this term as they take " reincarnation " to imply a fixed entity that is reborn .< ref >" Reincarnation in Buddhism: What the Buddha Didn't Teach " By Barbara O ' Brien, About. com < sup > Popular Jain cosmology and Buddhist cosmology as well as a number of schools of Hinduism posit rebirth in many worlds and in varied forms.

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.