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Jainism
Jain Dharma
c.850 BCE (Parshvanatha) / c.599–527 BCE (Mahavira) – present · Dharmic / Indian · Living · India, principally Gujarat, Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Karnataka; diaspora
III. THE AXIAL AGE — c.900 – 200 BCE
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- c.850 BCE Parshvanatha, twenty-third Tirthankara.
- c.599–527 BCE Mahavira. Contemporary of the Buddha, in the same region, addressing the same problems and reaching sharply different conclusions.
- c.300 BCE Famine in Magadha; the community splits over whether monks may wear clothes.
- c.79–82 CE Formal schism into Digambara (sky-clad, monks naked) and Shvetambara (white-clad).
- c.5th c. CE Valabhi council fixes the Shvetambara canon.
- c.1200–1500 CE Jain temple complexes at Ranakpur, Mount Abu and Palitana; Shravanabelagola's monolithic Bahubali statue (981 CE).
- 1867–1901 Virchand Gandhi and others present Jainism at the Chicago Parliament and abroad.
- 1915–1948 Jain ahimsa, absorbed through Gandhi's Gujarati upbringing and his adviser Raychandbhai Mehta, feeds directly into satyagraha — and from there to the American civil rights movement.
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