RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Aparigraha, Asteya, Veganism
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A chapter, the perfect marriage from mary whitney kelting"s heroic. Wives: rituals, stories, and the virtues of jain wifehood. Lesson six: the jain tradition and the ideal marriage. The hindu, buddhist, and jain traditions all stem from the vedic roots of south asia. In lesson four you learned that hindu understandings of love embrace the notion of desire. You learned in lesson five, on the other hand, that overall buddhist understandings of love did not embrace feelings of desire (with the exception of tantric notions of buddhism). Similar to the hindu and buddhist traditions, self-realization is the central focus of jain teachings. In this lesson you will explore three applications of jain love through: As each area is explored, keep in mind that the hindu, buddhist, and jain traditions all arose as a response to the external fire sacrifices of the vedic period.
