Category:Jains
Category:Jains Subcategories There is 1 subcategory to this ... category. A Jain Acharyas Pages in category "Jains" There are 19 pages in this section of this category. * List of Jains A Pierre Amiel B Banarasidas Bhadrabahu Frank ...
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Jains of Maharashtra
Jains of Maharashtra Jainism has been present in ... in Maharashtra in several regions. The native Jains of Maharashtra today are endogamous communiites and generally do not intermarry with the Jains who have arrived of North India. They ... head an institution termed Matha. The emigrant Jains have a large population in Maharashtra. Majority ...
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List of Jains
List of Jains Historical Chandragupta Maurya - founder of the Mauryan ...
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User talk:Sramana
... to the oldest Indian philosophies. They (the Jains) seem to have worked out their system ... the religion of the Nigganathas i.e. Jains. Critical and comparative study has brought to ... Samvara’ etc., which have been used by Jains in the original sense but which have ... tradition and the legendary account of the Jains enshrined in Rjavalikathe, and it is highly ... but it was the Budddhists and the Jains (emphasis supplied) who first made it ...
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Jainism
... Europe, Africa, the Far East and elsewhere, Jains have continued to sustain the ancient Shraman ... vigorous asceticism are the means by which Jains attain moksha or liberation from the cycle ... which is responsible for its own actions. Jains see this faith as teaching the individual ... the best of one's human abilities. Jains view God as the unchanging traits of ... has two main variants: Digambar and Shvetambar. Jains believe in ahimsa (or ahinsā), asceticism, ...
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User talk:∞
... 599 - 527 BC), or Lord Mahavira to Jains. According to belief, Jain philosophy is an ... which is responsible for its own actions. Jains see their faith as teaching the individual ... the best of one's human abilities. Jains view God as the unchanging traits of ... has two main variants: Digambar and Shvetambar. Jains believe in ahimsa (or ahinsa), asceticism, karma ... over a long period of time. Many Jains consider the primary scripture to be ...
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Talk:Jainism
... eating the root you kill the plant. Jains eat only trimmings and fruits, etc.. which ... Spade] 04:27, 27 Jul 2004 (UTC) Jains believe in non-violence,and there are ... to survive one has feed themself. Therefore Jains have to try kill minimum living things ... knowledge uplifting. That’s the same reason many Jains don’t eat after dark. Violence need be ... avoided in speech and thoughts too. -ashish Jains do not eat root vegetables because ...
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Jaïnism   (translated from French)
... a wandering professor who tried to recall Jains to the rigorous practice of their ancient ...
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Talk:Vegetarianism/Archive 1
... the same thing is true here. Perhaps Jains claim that their scripture is talking about protista and bacteria. But to non-Jains, this is not such a clear claim ... the rest of the world like some Jains are reading this interpretation back into older ... RK, it's difficult to believe that Jains knew about microorganisms thousands of years ago ... Unless it is widely accepted that early Jains did know about microorganisms, we have ...
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Talk:Hindu
... a simple subject. You can NOT call Jains OR Buddhists as Hindus. It is a ... issue of NPOV is because of calling Jains, Sikhs and Buddhists as Hindus. You be ... 24, 8 February 2006 (UTC) sikhs and jains User:172.203.204.9 removed a paragraph about sikhs/ jains w/the comment:"False comments. Sikhs, Buddhists and Jains are NOT Hindus." This may be ...
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