In various Buddhist and Jainist systems of thought, the apparent endorsement of Fa &.    From Wordnik.com.  [Contradiction] Reference

Whether you're having Jainist mores, or enjoying Gina-ist mores, I hope you have them in abundances.    From Wordnik.com.  [BSNYC Pre-Holiday Fun Quiz!] Reference

Syādvāda, an ancient Jainist doctrine of 7-fold postulation, allows you a multiplicity of angles of seeing reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pavel Somov, Ph.D.: WYSIWYC] Reference

It's a Jainist form of dying called santhara in which a person who is aware of and entirely prepared for their death ceases to eat or drink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Verena von Pfetten: Step XIII Of My Spiritual Journey: In Which I Refuse To Fast] Reference

Seeing my family is always a bittersweet experience, for my new life in New York City is in many ways at odds with that of my parents and my seventeen siblings, and I sometimes find myself chafing under their simple rural ways, conservative tastes, and strict Jainist mores.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

To this sect belong a few communities of Jainist nuns.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

I wouldn't care if the man was a Snake Handler, Agnostic or a Jainist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

Jainist worship is thus little more than a veneration of a few saints and heroes of the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Hospitals for animals have been a prominent feature of Jainist benevolence, bordering at times on absurdity.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

According to Jainist tradition, the founder lived in the sixth century b.c., being either a contemporary or a precursor of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

The Jainist, like the Buddhist and the pantheistic Brahmin, takes for granted the doctrine of Karma and its implied rebirths.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

The Jainist ascetic allows himself to be bitten by gnats and mosquitoes rather than risk their destruction by brushing them away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

To attain this end, the Jainist, like the Buddhist and the pantheistic Brahmin, holds that the traditional gods can aid but little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

According to Jainist tradition, they were preceded by an ancient canon of fourteen so-called Purvas, which have totally disappeared.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

The images of these Jainist saints are adorned with lights and flowers, and the faithful walk around them while reciting sacred mantras.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

Right Belief embraces faith in Jina as the true teacher of salvation and the acceptance of the Jainist scriptures as his authoritative teaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

As soon as Mr. Lopez utilizes, for the purpose of exploring chromosomal combinative possibilities, Scientology's concept of "assumption" (in which Thetans are reborn in human bodies), or the Jainist belief in reincarnation (a person's actions dictate the biological level of his rebirth), or the Mormon dogma of exaltation (obtainable by a proxy marriage after one's death), etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Campus] Reference

But, while the pantheistic Brahmin and the primitive Buddhist looked for the realization of the end in the extinction of conscious, individual existence (absorption in Brahma, Nirvana), the Jainist has always tenaciously held to the primitive traditional belief in a final abode of bliss, where the soul, liberated from the necessity of rebirth on earth, enjoys forever a spiritual, conscious existence.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent] Reference

That's a Jainist more.    From Wordnik.com.  [BSNYC Pre-Holiday Fun Quiz!] Reference