Jainism
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When Even Jainism Becomes a Hack
X.T.M argues that students falsely claiming to be Jain at Stanford to avoid the meal plan reveal how institutions treat religion as paperwork. He says Jainism is an ethnic, mercantile…
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The truth still matters
Razib Khan disputes a claim that vegetarianism was a Brahmin invention, arguing the standard account is that Sramanic movements such as Jainism and Buddhism drove the shift and Brahmin ritualism…
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Early Hinduism – the epic stratification
Nachiketa offers a self-described highly speculative account of how jati-varna stratification emerged, bringing together early Indian texts and the Sramana traditions of Buddhists, Jainas and Ajivikas, and contrasting their detailed…
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On Ahmadiyyas and Jains
The author argues that Hindu treatment of Jains and Muslim treatment of Ahmadiyyas show why Hindus and Muslims differ: for Hindus culture almost always trumps religion, while hostility to Ahmadiyyas…
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“The whole world should become ahimsak”
On Palitana’s Jain-led demand for a town free of meat and vice, the author argues Jains now behave as neo-Brahmins, and reflects on how Brahmins have been teachers and lawyers…
