“Jainism confined itself to being an Indian religion, unlike Buddhism, which spread across Asia,” says Stalin Rajangam, a researcher on dalit issues. “One of the basic tenets of Jainism is ...
Buddhism and Jainism grew out of this. Vardhamana Mahavira (540-468 BC) and Siddhartha Gautama (560-480 BC) were Kshatriyas and believed in Hindu tenets of karma and rebirth.
Research areas: Religious & social history of medieval Tamil Nadu; women in pre-colonial India; temple architecture & epigraphy; interactions among and sectarianism in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism ...
This one-of-a-kind knowledge sharing event will bring to light best practices in temple management, featuring expert-led discussions, presentations, workshops, and masterclasses- temple talks.● ...
International Temples Convention and Expo has announced its second annual edition in the temple city of Tirupati from February 17 to 19, 2025, in which key representatives from devotional institutions ...
With fifty-four superlative Asian artworks spanning the tenth to twenty-first centuries, this international loan exhibition explores portrayals of hell and conceptions of the afterlife across Buddhism ...