Kartika Ashtahnika 2025 Start and End Date: Know the Rituals and Significance of the Sacred Jain Festival Dedicated to Lord Mahavira

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

Explore the Jain Teachings of Lord Mahavira

Celebrated by the Jain community to observe peace and harmony and to spread the teachings of Lord Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism, Mahavir Jayanti marks the birth anniversary of the founder ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Tradition of Now: Jainism, Jazz, and the Punjabi Dhol Drum

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, ...
The Washington Post

In Booming India, Jain Religion Provides a Link to the Past

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 ...
Indian Newslink

Digambar Jains mark Paryushan and Diwali with devotion and unity

Devotees prayed for peace, spiritual growth, and unity across Jain sects and within the wider Indian Diaspora. The atmosphere ...
Religion News Service

Jain Americans adapt Thanksgiving by applying an ethic of nonviolence even to the turkey

(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 ...