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A 3 page paper discussing the origins of Jainism, Buddhism and Sikhism. Each of these religions originated with some individual's discontent with conditions as they were at the time the individual lived. None set out to create a religion with himself as the central figure. Rather, each sought to answer questions that essentially had been unanswered. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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of people throughout the world are adherents to Jainism, Buddhism or Sikhism, though Buddhism is the largest of the three. There are similarities among all of them of course,
and each pursues enlightenment in some form. Jainism Jainism originated in East India in 420 BC when "Vardhamana, the last Jina in a
series of 24 who lived in East India ... attained enlightenment after 13 years of deprivation and committed the act of salekhana, fasting to death" (The Major World Religions).
This is an external view, for Jain theology holds that Jainism is eternal and has no beginning and no end. Jainism shares some
characteristics with Hinduism and Buddhism but is more demanding than either. "They believe in karma and reincarnation as do Hindus but they believe that enlightenment and liberation from this
cycle can only be achieved through asceticism" (The Major World Religions). Jains also maintain strict diets. They practice fruititarianism, which consists of eating only those plant or animal
products that do not kill the source from which it is taken. Thus eating an egg is permissible; eating a chicken is not. The same is true for
tomatoes and carrots: eating the tomato does not adversely affect the tomato plant; eating a carrot kills the plant. Buddhism Buddhism originated in
India, but it has spread throughout Asia to become the worlds fourth-largest religion. Theravada Buddhism is practiced in Thailand, Burma, Cambodia and Laos; Mahayana Buddhism is practiced in China,
Japan, Korea, Tibet and Mongolia. Buddhism originated with "Siddhartha Gautama who, in 535 BCE, reached enlightenment and assumed the title Buddha" (The Major World Religions).
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