Infobox religious biography is being considered for merging. › Samantabhadra was a Jain ācārya (head of the monastic order) who lived about the later part...
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meditation Samantabhadra (Tibetan: Kuntu Zangpo), the name of a Buddha, the Adi-Buddha Samantabhadra, in Tibetan Buddhism Samantabhadra (Jain monk), second-century...
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Jain monasticism refers to the order of monks and nuns in the Jain community and can be divided into two major denominations: the Digambara and the Śvētāmbara...
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for merging. › Sushil Kumar (15 June 1926 – 22 April 1994) was a Jain teacher and monk (later Acharya). He was a self-realized master who devoted more...
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preservation of Jain scriptures, especially at the second Jain councils of Vallabhi held in 453 AD. Siddhasena Divakara-a jain monk of the Śvetāmbara...
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for merging. › Samantabhadra (1891–1988) was a Digambara monk. Founder of Jain Gurukul Education system Gurudev 108 Shri Samantabhadra was born in Karmala...
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three main pillars of Jainism are ahiṃsā (non-violence), anekāntavāda (non-absolutism), and aparigraha (asceticism). Jain monks take five main vows: ahiṃsā...
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canonical texts by later Jain monks. Later works were also written in other languages, like Sanskrit and Maharashtri Prakrit. Jain literature is primarily...
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during the Jain religious festival of Paryushana as a result of efforts made by the Śvetāmbara monk Hiravijayasuri. The origins of Jainism are obscure...
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A Digambara monk or Digambara Sādhu (also muni, sādhu) is a Sādhu in the Digambar tradition of Jainism, and as such an occupant of the highest limb of...
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Digambara (redirect from Digambar Jain)
manuscripts). One of the most important scholar-monks of the Digambara tradition was Kundakunda. Digambara Jain communities are currently found mainly in most...
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include Sangha, Shramana (monk), Shravaka (Householder in Jainism, Buddha's disciple in Buddhism), Jina (Tirthankara in Jainism, Buddha in Buddhism), Chaitya...
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BC) was a Jain monk. Shyamacharya or Kalakacharya I lived from c. 247 BC to 151 BC. He composed Prajnapaana Sutra, an encyclopaedia of Jain tenets. Natubhai...
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Acharya Tulsi (redirect from Acharya Tulsi (Jain monk))
initiated more than 776 monks and nuns. In the 1970s, Acharya Tulsi began researching, compiling translations and commentaries on the Jain Agamas. Acharya Tulsi...
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important scholar-monks of Digambara tradition was Acharya Kundakunda. He authored Prakrit texts such as Samayasara and Pravachansara. Samantabhadra was another...
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Neminath Jain Temple, originally known as Karnavihara, is a Jain temple dedicated to the Jain tirthankara Neminatha. It is on Girnar hill, near the city...
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Acharya Vidyasagar (redirect from Vidyasagar (Jain monk))
Indian Digambara Jain acharya (monk), credited with having brought about a revival in educational and religious activities in Digambara Jainism. He wrote the...
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religious biography is being considered for merging. › Devasena was a Jain monk of the 11th century CE belonging to Mula Sangha. He wrote Bhavasangraha...
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Acharya Bhikshu (redirect from Bhikshu (Jain monk))
teachings of Jainism; Ragunathji seconded the same but was unwilling to bring the same in the sect as they were hard to follow by the other monks. In the middle...
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Pujyapada (category Indian Jain monks)
like Acharya Kundakunda and Acharya Samantabhadra. He is rated as being the greatest of the early masters of Jain literature. He was prominent preceptor...
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Vimalsagarsuri (category Indian Jain monks)
Vimalsagarsuri is an eminent and popular Jain monk and Acharya of the Tapa Gaccha of the Śvetāmbara sect of Jainism. He belongs to the lineage of Acharya...
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not 'free of faults' as it should be for a Jain monk to accept. The 42 faults that food given to a Jain monk may have are discussed at length in the ancient...
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first Jain work in Sanskrit, the Tattvārthasūtra, which systematised Jain philosophy in a form acceptable to all sects of Jainism. Samantabhadra (c. 2nd...
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Yashovijaya (category Indian Jain monks)
Yashovijaya (IAST: Yaśovijaya, 1624–1688), a seventeenth-century Jain philosopher-monk, was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was a thinker, prolific...
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Mahavira (redirect from Mahavir Jain)
text from this source, which is in the public domain. Jain, Vijay K. (2015), Acarya Samantabhadra's Svayambhustotra: Adoration of The Twenty-four Tirthankara...
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Śvetāmbara (redirect from Śvetāmbara Jainism)
state the Jain cosmology and the Jain philosophy as well as the foundational aspects of understanding Jainism. They also govern the conduct of monks, nuns...
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famous achāryas are Bhadrabahu, Kundakunda, Samantabhadra, Umaswami, Sthulibhadra. In Digambara Jainism, Āchārya has thirty-six primary attributes (mūla...
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Vidyananda (redirect from Vidyananda (8th century Jain monk))
scholar and Jain monk in Pataliputra. He was born in 750 AD and died in 800. He wrote Ashtasahasri which is a commentary on Samantabhadra's Devagamastotra...
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Samantabhadra (lit. "Universal Worthy", "All Good") is a great bodhisattva in Buddhism associated with practice and meditation. Together with Shakyamuni...
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for merging. › Harisena was a tenth century Digambara monk. His origin is traced to those monks who had stayed in the north during the supposed famine...
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