Haveri: Muni Shiromani Vidit Sagar Maharaj exhorted the Jain religious congregation to sustain religion through practice ...

In December, I gifted myself the 2023 Interfaith Calendar from the Council of Religious Leaders of Metropolitan Chicago. It marks holy days of many religions, information I often need for Facets of ...

Celebrated by the Jain community to observe peace and harmony and to spread the teachings of Lord Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, Mahavir Jayanti marks the birth anniversary of the founder ...

Los Angeles — Cerritos College in Norwalk — where the majority of students are Latino and the first in their families to attend college — is a stone's throw from Southern California's famed "Little ...

(RNS) — When Ami Doshi was invited as a new migrant from India to friends’ Thanksgiving Day festivities, it shocked the then-middle schooler to hear the meat of a rare, elaborately feathered bird ...

Why do millions of practitioners of the Jain religion strive to avoid harming even microscopic creatures? Credit...Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times Supported by By George Yancy Mr. Yancy is a ...

Dr. Jasvant Modi, a respected philanthropist and physician, is a follower of Jainism and an advocate for its use in all parts of life and education. Jainism, with its ancient roots, centers on ...

Fasting is intrinsic to the two traditions that I study – Islam and Jainism. Jainism is an ancient religion from India that espouses, among other things, nonviolence, nonpossessiveness and pluralism.

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Derived from the Sanskrit word "jina," meaning "to conquer," Jainism teaches that all life forms have an eternal soul bound by karma in a never-ending cycle of rebirth. Through nonviolence or ahimsa, ...

While the originations of the dhol are not known with complete certainty, what is known is that it is a sound that has migrated. Sunny Jain After composing and transcribing music for my wedding day, ...