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Research Topics on: jainism OR jains OR jaina

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    Jainism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...divisions of Jains, the Digambaras...retreat. Early Jainism, arising in...Gujarat. The Jaina canon, however...literature ). As Jainism grew and prospered...between Hindu and Jain became more...drawn into the Jaina pantheon, and...which primitive Jainism had rejected...charity among Jains is the establishment...
     
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    Prakrit Literature
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...Buddhists. However, most of the literature generally called Prakrit is devoted to Jainism . The sacred texts ( Siddhanta or Agama ) of the two main sects of the Jains employed three types of Prakrit. The oldest sutras of the Svetambara sect are written...
     
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    India
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...the Sikhs; and Satrunjaya Hill near Palitana is sacred to the Jains. With its long and rich history, India retains many outstanding...reign of Bimbisara (540 490 b.c.), that the founders of Jainism and Buddhism preached. Kosala was another kingdom of the period...
     
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    Hinduism
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...reality and finally union with God. Responses to Buddhism and Jainism In the middle of the first millennium b.c., an ossified...heterodox, i.e., non-Vedic, systems, notably Buddhism and Jainism . The priestly elite responded by creating a synthesis that...
     
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    Ajivika
    Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
    Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

    ...community whose pessimistic doctrines are related to those of Jainism . Its founder, Gosala (d. c.484 b.c.), was, it is said, a friend of Mahavira, the founder of Jainism. Gosala denied that a mans actions could influence the process...
     

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