Doctrine of Jainas

Author(s): Walther Shubring, Wolfgang Beurlen
Publisher: Motilal Banarasidas

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DOCTRIC 011111 JAIXA: Mahāvira's and the Buddha's teachings, llomin 30 1,« .. fravurey which botlı acsult in a mond's lift, fowlang cach o'lci sn miny respects and agiccing in considering Rehal ko rriger to be thic mcans of how to get rid of the codile*schon of relyin. There is, however, a difference (among othesis Dyrli crnkirin in this the Buddha docs not share the legal opinion asr** purtir which, in Maliivita's bichier, are per resiliul frit rectelor de ultimatc goal. Further diferences will be fred in thirt aglayies. But hicic thc partncı of the comparisondino!!uch 1 dhi'ni as is the Samaliya, In thc Samso the cruelossinraittir world starts from matter that is amperihailr sci mfinis ;« lrs que lity going on in a determined sequel definirdi bu mnt is of 13 1911111 terms. Thc Jams, being far from the Bralamin sa flu1271%, do not acknowledye such a scqucl, senice, in tricyri, for world is ctcrnal, though they agree with thar Simila;.: i; coa derint: matter as being capable of developune in sinceurs dircctiori. Morcovcr, logic compcls them, as deel the same , to (01915. der as important the transition (1 irrors ir ma tle or folds to the next And third, both are in harmony as to the original conception of tlic soul. "The Jonas coll ji: all vult, the Samhliya those that cuist in the concreie poole houss it for that “soul" has been abstracted from "living, brennt;", that it 10 say, from a popular view " The sunc ideal appear in the (1}}. ccption that thc soul is as large as the body. poncrpion wincha is apparcnt with the Jains, while it is al lc.5t mic.ble fron the original Sāmkhya and Yog. Both Jaimis:") and Simhhy, pretend a plurality of bodics Il scems that this conception replaced the primitive idea of a plurality of souls at a time nilicn the duciring of the Onc Ātman could not bc ncglerıcd any longer. 'I ins applies to the doctrinc of Karman and of reincarnation inllosing from thc former and which, by thc by, is a primirc idc:1 2 well Both Karman and rcincarnation are the fundaments of the Sāmkhya system as well as of that of the Jains The very fact that both these systems, as thcy now stand, are so very
i Comp W BOHN, Die Religion des Jam? und ihr Verhalıms zum Buddhismus, Zeitschr. f Buddhisinus'3, p. 113-110, LCUNI Mahavira, ibd. 4 (separatc oftprint, Níunich 1921)
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