Definitions for Jainism

Jainism Jain·ism

Spelling: [jahy-niz-uh m]
IPA: /ˈdʒaɪ nɪz əm/

Jainism is a 7 letter English word.

You can make 114 anagrams from letters in Jainism (aiijmns).

Definitions for Jainism

noun

  1. a dualistic religion founded in the 6th century b.c. as a revolt against current Hinduism and emphasizing the perfectibility of human nature and liberation of the soul, especially through asceticism and nonviolence toward all living creatures.

Origin of Jainism

First recorded in 1855-60; Jain + -ism

Examples for Jainism

A striking feature of the world in which Jainism and Buddhism arose was the prevalence of confraternities or religious orders.

But it must be remembered that even in Jainism Buddha is only a memory.

For Jainism individual souls are free, separate existences, whose essence is pure intelligence.

The beauty of Jainism finds its best expression in architecture.

But observation of Jainism as it exists to-day produces a quite different impression.

Jainism, like every other heathen system, is an effort to earn salvation by labors and sacrifices of one's own.

The organization into communities was made by Buddha2065 and, apparently contemporaneously, by Mahavira, the founder of Jainism.

Jainism had a distinguished but chequered career in the south.

It is a celebrated stronghold of Jainism, and here is another most splendid temple.

His doctrine was closely allied to Jainism, especially the Digambara sect, but was probably more extravagant and anti-social.

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