quality of Hinduism. Jainism denounced the authority of the Vedas and opened the Jain community to men and women of all castes.Basic to Jainism is the teaching concerningjivasliving beings, and their two characteristic states of existence, perfect and imperfect. In the state of imperfect being a...
he earned the name Mahavira, meaning a great warrior. As a child he also imbibed the basic philosophical notions of Jainism which his parents practiced as followers of Parsvanatha.
Jainism has between four and five million followers, with most Jains residing in India. 目前耆那教有四五百萬信徒,大部分生活在印度。 LASER-wikipedia2 This vacuum, together with “the intellectual decay of the old religion,” contributed to the rise of the two major reform movements of the...
Jainism Followers The majority of Jains live in India, which counts between 4 and 6 million followers. Some of the largest Jain communities outside India are in the United States, which has more than 79,000 followers; Kenya, which has nearly 69,000 adherents; the United Kingdom, which cou...
The students or disciples of a guru are called shishya, and the close relationship between a guru and his or her loyal followers has been central for transmitting Hindu truths and practices, especially when Hinduism was primarily an oral tradition. In the past, students lived with or near their...
different from the three jewels of Buddhism. They constitute the core practice of Jainism for both the ascetics and the laity. The three jewels are interdependent and yet independent. They prepare the followers to practice the vows they have to undertake as a part of their religious obligation....
Statues of people are fine, but not as religious icons. Marriage Marriage is a social convention and not linked to religion. But followers must strictly follow monogamy. Monks, though have renounced material world, hence strictly follow celibacy. Ancient times: unlimited polygamy with concubinage....
plaques depicting auspicious symbols. Jainism preaches universal tolerance, and its attitude toward other forms of religion is that of noncriticism. It is not competitive and has never cared for the spread of its faith. Among its followers are the traders and merchants of Gujarat and Maharashtra ...
The core teaching of Jain Dharma is Ahinsa and so all of its 10 million followers are vegetarians, consuming neither meat, fish, fowl, poultry nor eggs. Jains would not take any life for food or sport. But today many have gone one step forward and have also given up all dairy products...
9.In Jainism ahimsa is the standard by which all actions are judged. 耆那教以不害为判断一切行为的准则。 10.However, Jainism is very much a religion in its own right and its followers have to keep a strict code of conduct especially when it comes to diet. 11.He even invented a religion...