NEW DELHI -- Dressed in a coarse white cotton sari, her hair shorn and a small square of white cloth covering her mouth, Sadika Sansiddhi looks nothing like other 17-year-olds. Two years ago, she left ...

The Jain Center of New Jersey in Franklin will host a five-day religious celebration starting Friday. The Jain religion stresses nonviolence. About 1%2C800 families are members of the Jain Center of ...

The ancient Indian religion of Jainism, a close cousin of Buddhism, has often been a hard sell in the U.S., with its strict adherence to nonviolence that forbids eating meat, encourages days of ...

Jains say their religion had no beginning and it has no end. They say it has existed since existence itself began. But temporal existence has a milestone starting today for the Jain community in ...

(RNS) — When Ami Doshi was invited as a new migrant from India to friends’ Thanksgiving Day festivities, it shocked the then-middle schooler to hear the meat of a rare, elaborately feathered bird ...

MUMBAI, India — The Jain religious minority won a significant legal victory Monday when India’s Supreme Court upheld the practice of fasting until death. The court temporarily shelved a lower-court ...

Kartika Ashtahnika 2025 is one of the most sacred Jain festivals, celebrated with deep devotion and discipline. Observed by ...

Why do millions of practitioners of the Jain religion strive to avoid harming even microscopic creatures? Credit...Devin Oktar Yalkin for The New York Times Supported by By George Yancy Mr. Yancy is a ...

AHMEDABAD, India (RNS) The Gitarthganga Institute has over 125,000 books, manuscripts and ebooks. Five thousand books have been added to the digital database, along with thousands of ebooks, articles ...

While the originations of the dhol are not known with complete certainty, what is known is that it is a sound that has migrated. Sunny Jain After composing and transcribing music for my wedding day, ...