Kumbakonam Jain Temple
Bhagawan Chandraprabha Jain Temple (கும்பகோணம் சந்திரப்பிரப பகவான் ஜினாலயம்) :ta:கும்பகோணம் சந்திரப்பிரப பகவான் ஜினாலயம் is a Jain temple dedicated to the deity Jain, located in the town of Kumbakonam in Thanjavur District Tamil Nadu, India Other Jain Temples This temple is situated at Ramaswamy Temple Ramaswamy Temple is a Hindu temple dedicated to Rama, an incarnation of Vishnu located in Kumbakonam, Tamil Nadu, India. It is one of the prominent temples in the town and also one of the most prominent temples dedicated to Rama in India. This t ... West Street in Kumbakonam.There are also Jain temples in Thanjavur, Mannargudi, Deepankudi and other places in Tamil Nadu. Structure of the temple The temple has sanctum sanctorum, front mandapa and maha mandapa. The entrance has no Gopuram. On either side of the sanctum sanctoru ...
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Jainism
Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an Indian religions, Indian religion. Jainism traces its spiritual ideas and history through the succession of twenty-four tirthankaras (supreme preachers of ''Dharma''), with the first in the current time cycle being Rishabhadeva, whom the tradition holds to have lived millions of years ago, the twenty-third ''tirthankara'' Parshvanatha, whom historians date to the 9th century BCE, and the twenty-fourth ''tirthankara'' Mahāvīra, Mahavira, around 600 BCE. Jainism is considered to be an eternal ''dharma'' with the ''tirthankaras'' guiding every time cycle of the Jain cosmology, cosmology. The three main pillars of Jainism are ''Ahimsa in Jainism, ahiṃsā'' (non-violence), ''anekāntavāda'' (non-absolutism), and ''aparigraha'' (asceticism). Jain monks, after positioning themselves in the sublime state of soul consciousness, take five main vows: ''ahiṃsā'' (non-violence), ''satya'' (truth), ''Achourya, asteya'' (not stealing), ''b ...
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