The main dispute between the Digambara and the Shvetambara sects was due to the emphasis on the following:
Ascetic discipline, especially monastic nudity versus wearing clothes
The major visible distinction concerned ascetic discipline, particularly whether a fully renouncing monk should wear clothing. Digambara and Shvetambara traditions share commitments such as non-violence and truth; differences also extend to doctrine and texts.
Important Questions from Emergence of heterodox sects - Teaching
The Metropolitan Museum of Art catalogues the fifteenth-century folio King Siddharta Being Anointed from a Kalpasutra manuscript as belonging to which Indian region?
Match the Jain terms with their appropriate meanings.
List I
(a) Bhattaraka
(b) Kshullaka
(c) Shravaka
(d) Yati
List II
(i) A general term for an ascetic
(ii) A lay Jain follower
(iii) A traditional head of a Digambara religious establishment
(iv) A junior stage of Digambara ascetic initiation
Choose the correct matching.'Kathina ceremony' of Buddhist samgha was related to
In Shravasti, Makkali Gosala usually stayed at the workshop of the lady Halahala who belonged to community of
Given below are two statements, one is labelled as Assertion (A) and the
Assertion (A): Gautama Buddha believed in rebirth.
Reason (R) : He did not accept the existence of the permanent soul.
