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Jaina Sangha

4 articles in the archive discuss Jaina Sangha, from Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology (1974–1978). Open any article for its summary, citation and original PDF.

4 articles

Articles discussing Jaina Sangha

  1. Evolution of Jaina Sangha

    J. C. Sikdar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1977

    “The fact that the characteristics of living Jaina Sanghas are such that they can be fitted into a hierarchical scheme of categories, such as, ganas, gacchas, kulas, sakhas, etc. can best be interpreted as indicating evolutionary relationship.”
  2. Evolution of Jaina Sangha

    J. C. Sikdar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1978

    “Jaina Sangha or Gana or Gaccha shows adaptations both to the socio-economic and political environment, physical environment, nature and to the monastic and religious environment, which includes all the Jaina Sanghas, Ganas, Gacchas, etc. and other religious sects living in the same region.”
  3. Evolution of Jaina Sangha

    J. C. Sikdar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1978

    “Whenever a close study of some particular Jaina Sangha is made, one is struck by the remarkable fitness of the monastic order for the place in which it moves and lives.”
  4. A Sidelight on Social, Economic and Political Aspects of Civilization in its Beginning on the Basis of the Jaina Agamas

    J. C. Sikdar · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1974