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Digambars

5 articles in the archive discuss Digambars, from The Jaina Gazette, Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology (1920–1976). Open any article for its summary, citation and original PDF.

5 articles

Articles discussing Digambars

  1. What is Jainism

    Evelyn S. Kleinschmidt · The Jaina Gazette, 1920

  2. Omniscience a Fiction or a Fact

    Gopal Rai Jain · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1976

  3. The Present Condition of the Jains

    Evelyn S. Kleinschmidt · The Jaina Gazette, 1934

  4. The Call Of The Times

    Hem Chandra Rai · The Jaina Gazette, 1925

  5. Jainism

    Charlotte Krause · The Jaina Gazette, 1929

    “The two great branches of Jainism are the Svetambars and the Digambars. The Digambar Jains maintain that, as the Tirthankaras, on their highest stage, never wore clothes, in the same way the monk should be naked, too, in order to symbolize his freedom from bodily care.”