Digambara
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Kundakunda, a scholar-monk in the Digambara tradition.
Digambara (T. གཅེར་བུ་བ་; "sky-clad") is one of the two major branches of Jainism, the other being Śvetāmbara ("white-clad"). The Sanskrit word Digambara means "sky-clad", referring to their traditional monastic practice of neither possessing nor wearing any clothes.[1]
Digambara monks cherish the virtue of non-attachment and non-possession of any material goods. They do not wear any clothes as it is considered to be parigraha (possession), which ultimately leads to attachment.[2] Monks also carry a community-owned picchi, which is a broom made of fallen peacock feathers for removing and thus saving the life of insects in their path or before they sit.[1]
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Long 2018, pp. 17–18.
- ↑ Dundas 2002, p. 45.
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
Digambara, Wikipedia
གཅེར་བུ་བ་, Christian-Steinert Dictionary
gcer_bu_pa, Rangjung Yeshe Wiki
