Śvetāmbara
Śvetāmbara is one of the two main branches of Jainism, the other being the Digambara. Śvetāmbara in Sanskrit means "white-clad", and refers to its ascetics' practice of wearing white clothes, which sets it apart from the Digambara or "sky-clad" Jains whose ascetic practitioners go nude. Śvetāmbaras do not believe that ascetics must practice nudity.[1]
The Śvetāmbara and Digambara traditions have had historical differences ranging from their dress code, their temples and iconography, attitude towards Jain nuns, their legends and the texts they consider as important.[2]
The Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya (“Compendium of the Six Views”) by the eighth-century Śvetāmbara scholar Haribhadra Sūri articulates how Buddhist doctrines were interpreted by non-Buddhist schools.[3]
Notes
- ↑ Dundas 2002, p. 45.
- ↑ Dundas 2002, pp. 53–59, 64–80, 286–287 with footnotes 21 and 32.
- ↑ Buswell & Lopez 2014, s.v. Ṣaḍdarśanasamuccaya.
Sources
Buswell, Robert E.; Lopez, Donald S. (2014), The Princeton Dictionary of Buddhism, Princeton University- Dundas, Paul (2002) [1992], The Jains (Second ed.), Routledge, ISBN 0-415-26605-X
- Long, Jeffery D (2013), Jainism: An Introduction, I.B.Tauris, ISBN 978-0-85771-392-6
Further reading
Śvetāmbara, Wikipedia
