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Colonial-era Indologists considered Jainism (and Mahavira's followers) a sect of Buddhism because of superficial similarities in iconography and meditative and ascetic practices. [93] As scholarship progressed, differences between the teachings of Mahavira and the Buddha were found so divergent that the religions were acknowledged as separate. [94]
Buddhism and Jainism are two Indian religions that developed in Magadha and continue to thrive in the modern age. Gautam Buddha and Mahavira are generally accepted as contemporaries. [1] [2] Jainism and Buddhism share many features, terminology and ethical principles, but emphasize them differently. [2]
The king posed the Buddha the question of whether or not it was possible that the life of a śramaṇa could bear fruit in the same way as the lives of craftsmen bear fruit, declaring that he had previously asked six teachers (Pūraṇa Kassapa, Makkhali Gosāla, Ajita Kesakambala, Pakudha Kaccāyana, Nigaṇṭha Nāṭaputta and Sañjaya ...
[note 4] During the life of Buddha, Mahavira and the Buddha were leaders of their śramaṇa orders. Nigaṇṭha Nātaputta refers to Mahāvīra. [note 5] According to Pande, Jainas were the same as the Niganthas mentioned in the Buddhist texts, and they were a well established sect when Buddha began preaching.
The Buddha's teachings on monastic discipline were preserved in the various Vinaya collections of the different early schools. [ 368 ] Buddhist monastics, which included both monks and nuns, were supposed to beg for their food, were not allowed to store up food or eat after noon and they were not allowed to use gold, silver or any valuables.
Ājīvika philosophy is cited in ancient texts of Buddhism and Jainism to Makkhali Gosala, a contemporary of the Buddha and Mahavira. [27] In Sandaka Sutta the Ājīvikas are said to recognize three emancipators: Nanda Vaccha, Kisa Saṅkicca, and Makkhali Gosāla. Exact origins of Ājīvika is unknown, but generally accepted to be the 5th ...
Mahavira ; Restraint (mahāvrata) Be endowed with, cleansed by, and suffused with [merely] the avoidance of all evil. [3] Sañjaya Belaṭṭhiputta ; Agnosticism (amarāvikkhepavāda) "I don't think so. I don't think in that way or otherwise. I don't think not or not not." Suspension of judgement.
The adoption of Buddha may also have been a way to assimilate aspects of Buddhism into the fold of Hinduism. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 28 ] According to Wendy Doniger, "Helmuth von Glasenapp attributed these developments to a Hindu desire to absorb Buddhism in a peaceful manner, both to win Buddhists to Vaishnavism and also to account for the fact that ...