https://www.youngisthan.in/youngies-talk/taboo-practices-in-indian-culture/9952 Empowering Youth ! Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:40:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.8.7 https://www.youngisthan.in/youngies-talk/taboo-practices-in-indian-culture/9952#comment-2160 Sat, 29 Apr 2017 09:40:00 +0000 http://www.youngisthan.in/youngies-talk/taboo-practices-in-indian-culture/9952#comment-2160 Dighambar are also jain people as shwetambers are. Mahaveer is our common god and 24th god also refereed as thirthankara, Here i would like to make little correction in your detailed draft provided which says mahaveer was the last thirthankata who never married. But he was a saint and before that he was a prince. Before taking diksha he was too married. Now coming to the way jain monks of dighambar or shwetambar live, there is too much difference between both the sects. Shwetambars do have two subsects and their monks do wear cloths which are white in colour whereas for monks of dighambar, its part of their diksha and sanyas that they give up their cloths and other things. Though it seems a taboo or unusual practice to other part of world but for the religious follower, it isnt.

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