“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 ...

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 ...