Bīsapanth
A living tradition within Digambara. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Bīsapanth is a living tradition within Digambara. Also written Bīs-panth, Bispanthi.
Origin
No founding year is given below, because the sources read do not agree on one and a date has not been chosen for them. Jainpedia: a Digambara lay tradition that accepts the authority of the bhaṭṭārakas and permits the worship of unliberated deities. No founder and no founding date in any source reached.
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Citation
English
The language and the date you read it belong in the citation: this corpus is multilingual and articles are revised after publication.
John Shaqi. “Bīsapanth.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-bisapanth.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Bīsapanth},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-bisapanth},
note = {Accessed n.d.}
}The word count is counted from this edition. The minute estimate uses 238 words a minute, the silent reading rate for English non-fiction reported by Brysbaert (2019). The Urdu, Hindi and Roman Urdu editions carry a word count and no estimate, because no comparable rate has been published for those scripts.