Ramchandrasuri (1896 – 1991) was a

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monk and scholar .

Biography

Ramchandrasuri was born on 3 March 1896 (Falgun Vad 4, Vikram Samvat 1952) in Padara village (now in

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). He was a disciple of Acharya shri Prem Surishwarji and was initiated in monkhood by Muni Mangalvijayji at Gandhar (now in Gujarat) in 1912 (Pushya Vad 13, VS 1969). He died in 1991 (Ashadha Vad 15, VS 2047). The centenary of his initiation in asceticism was celebrated in Palitana,

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and Gandhar in 2012.

Order

Ramchandrasuri established the Ramchandrasuri Samuday, an order of Tapa Gaccha sub-sect of Svetambara

Jainism Jainism ( ), also known as Jain Dharma, is an 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 bein ...

. The Gachhadhipati, head of the Samuday, Hembhushansuri died in 2008 at

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. On 29 March 2011, Punyapalsuri was appointed as a new Gachhadhipati at Palitana, Gujarat

References

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