WHAT IS JAINISM
WHAT IS JAINISM? HOW IT EVOLVED AND SPREAD? JAINA SIGN So for this unit we're going to look at the Jain faith, Jainism. And we might note first of all the meaning of the name. The Jains are those who follow the Jina , someone who has conquered now really, this world or samsara , the convolution we can call it. The confusing world,well, we call this world. So we may wonder why would we study Jainism with only four to five million members in India? Because it is the oldest continuous religion on the planet. Judaism we can say maybe, well the first reference to Israel is 1100 BCE in an Egyptian manuscript. Of course many instances of stories in the Bible all go back to Babylon and Sumer so it's really a foolish contest though to determine what is the oldest continuous religion frankly, because they all trace their roots back to the same sources eventually in Africa where we all came from. Nevertheless with just a half a percent of India's
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