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1321
Jainism
Intolerance towards Religion.
There was only Buddhism in Tibet. Christians approached the king of Tibet to allow them to work for Christian religion there. The king was advised by the officers of the State as well as by the people who were traditionalists not to give such a permission as was asked for by them. To them the king replied that we would certainly hear them because it is not a fact that what was necessary to be told to us has already been told in our religion and now there is nothing new which remains to be known. We are going ahead on our road and they on theirs. We would only be too glad to hear their experiences and if there is anything true and proper in them, we would try our best to make it agreeable with ours. This will smoothen our way also. We will, indeed, be profited by hearing them. Then, why not give apportunity to them-he added? Besides, our religion is deeply ingrained in us. It is not going to be thrown out. Therefore, we are not to lose anything if we give them a patient hearing-he further said.
The king, as seen before, showed catholicity but it was not reciprocated by the Christians. Wherever they go, they find faults with our religions. This renders it difficult for them to be one with our people of diverse religious professions. Exploiting fully the religious broad-mindedness of the king to their own advantage, he was finally got assasinated by them. Excepting Bible and allied literature, the literature of every other religion was committed to fire by them in Rome This is imitated exactly by the Muslims. They do not find religion anywhere else except in the Koran. Though Koran itself reveals a great tendency to catholicity, it is the Muslims themselves who are cent per cent bigoted and intolerant to other religions and wherever they went, they did not spare to annihilate everything that belonged to other religions, culture and civilization. This is why they could not get absorbed in the indigenous mainstream..
If any religious person accepts what is true and proper-it may be anywhere without getting confined in his own religion's fold due to inflexibility, he is thereby fortifying his own religion eventually. The veracity of this statement can be easily proved with reasons and evidences if we just care to turn our eyes to history of any religion. And that also is a fact that those religions which were unforgiving in their attitude were totally thrown out or could not establish their reputation fully.
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Progressivism of Jainism.
That section of society which lets it be known as conservative does not care to introduce or inject new concepts into it or to reform itself
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