Jain monk condemns attacks on Jain history and culture, calls for State-wide meeting to address defamation on social media.

“Jainism is a very old tradition with a very rich history of nonviolence, ecology, environment, respect for women, business ethics…. I could go on,” said Sulekh Jain, a retired engineer and ...

The British Museum's Ancient India, Living Traditions exhibition brings together exhibits on the sacred art of Hinduism, ...

A $1 million endowment at UT Austin has been created to promote Jain Studies, marked by a new distinguished professorship.

The Federation of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA) has partnered with the University of Texas at Austin to ...

Changes in how younger worshipers act out the faith may have a big impact on Jainism's fate here. In India, Jains account for about 1 percent of the population and the community in the U.S. counts ...

Jainism doesn't have a single founder. The truth has been revealed at different times by a tirthankara, which means a teacher who 'makes a ford' i.e. shows the way. Other religions call such a ...

Jainism originated in India, and comparisons are often made to Hinduism, the majority faith in that country, but the two faiths are distinctly separate. Still most Jain followers here are Indian ...

In Jainism, there is no God that created the universe and all the souls. The universe and all its souls have existed without any beginning and will always exist without any end.

A central principle of Jainism is "ahimsa," or nonharm. Jains are called to be vegetarians and work in occupations that minimize the destruction of life.

Jainism is a religion of religious equality, devoted to recognising the rights of all living creatures, so not surprisingly it accepts that women are able to play their part on the road to liberation.