Exam 4: Jainism

The Shvetambara sect is the largest Jain faction.

The Quatrains are an assemblage of verses on meditation.

Which of these texts do both the Digambaras and Shvetambaras consider to be true scripture?

Jain adherents are urged to combine their devotion to correct behavior with a sense of community and cultivation of noble feelings such as ________.

The two schools of Jainism claim the same canon, but practice differently.

What does the following Key Term mean: -jina

For Jains, ________ is a material substance.

Mahavira is said to have been an approximate contemporary of what other religious leader?

Worldwide, Jainism has about twenty-five million adherents.

Jains are atheistic in the sense that they deny the existence of a creator God.

Misdeeds, especially acts of violence, cause bad karma and the accumulation of impurities.

Which of these religions is/are not generally practiced in India?

The sectarian dispute over whether the nineteenth Jina, ________, was male or female symbolizes disagreements abouemale liberation.

Jainism embraces a distinctive set of core doctrines that have remained substantially unchanged for twenty-five hundred years.

Which of these is not one of the Five Great Vows taken by monastic Jains?

Mahavira attained kevala, which is ________, the absolute knowledge that destroys samsara.

Most Jains refuse to eat _______ because they contain many microscopic lives.

Explain the meaning of ahimsa and how it is integrated into the lives of both lay and monastic Jains.

Goddesses are significant cultural and religious figures for Jains.

The capacity of women to achieve liberation from the cycle of rebirth has been hotly debated for around two thousand years, and relates to whether nudity is necessary for salvation.