Śvetāmbara
A living tradition within Jainism. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Śvetāmbara is a living tradition within Jainism. Also written Shvetambara, 'white-clad'.
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. No founding date. One of the two principal sects of Jainism; its monks and nuns wear simple white garments. Its canon was fixed at a council held at Valabhi, dated in the literature to 453 or 456 CE (given as 980 or 993 years after the death of Mahavira).
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Śvetāmbara.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-svetambara.
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author = {John Shaqi},
title = {Śvetāmbara},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {English version},
url = {https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-svetambara},
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.