Origins
Another word for conqueror in Jainism.
What is jina?
Commitment and avoiding conduct that can be mentally and emotionally damaging to all life forms on earth.
What is Ahimsa?
A religious practice of voluntarily fasting to death by gradually reducing the intake of food and liquids.
What is Sallekhana?
The Jain community is composed of the following people.
Who are monks, nuns, laymen, and laywoman?
The primary residing place of Jains.
What is India?
The religion that was dominant in the time of Vardhamana Mahavira.
What is Hinduism?
The three beliefs that Jains believe in.
What are karma, reincarnation and moksha?
For people following Jainism, the death of Mahavira is seen as...
liberation and achievement, not suicide and dread.
The Sky-clad Jains strongly believe that this person was more godly than a human.
Who is Mahavira?
The most important global contribution Jainism has brought is…
the view of ahimsa.
The quality that Vardhamana Mahavira taught his people.
What is self-mastery?
The five essential principles of Jainism.
What are Ahimsa, truthfulness, non-stealing, celibacy and non-possession?
The two sects of Jainism.
What are Digambaras and the Svetambaras?
______________ has proven to be the real dividing point./
What is Monastic nudity?
Two people who were impacted by Jainism.
Who are Mohandas Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr?
People who deprive themselves of pleasure for the purpose of achieving union with their spirit.
What is Ascetics?
The belief that every living thing on the planet has a soul.
What is Atomism?
The sect that believes that Satkandagama and Kasay-aprabhrta are sacred texts.
What is the Digambaras?
The sect that agrees with Monastic nudity and believes that it is not a problem.
What is the White-cald sect?
This person influenced Martin Luther King Jr and caused him to perform a non-violent protest.
Who is Mohandas Gandhi?
This person reorganized the way people approached religious life.
Who is Vardhamana Mahavira?
The belief that nothing is absolutely correct or incorrect and everything depends on perspective.
What is no absolutes?
The sacred text for the Svetambaras sect.
What is the Āgama?
The sect that believed that wearing clothing was going against the Five practices of Jainism.
What is the Sky-cald sect?
Jainism has affected the _________ of the world.
What is spiritual development?