...shame implied sin, so that if there were no sin in the world there would be no shame. Hence they argued that to get rid of clothes was to get rid of sin ;...about with the air or sky (Dig) as his sole covering. The eternal problem of the relative value of intention and action divided these Buddhist sects, as...

...systems, but Gautama Buddha was a Jina or conqueror through meditation, whereas Vardh.ama.na Mahavira was a Jina through Tapas or bodily austerity. In fact,...covering. In the Kalpa-sutra of the Jains we read that Mahavira himself began his career by wearing clothes for one year and one month, and after that he...

...warfare against the assault of evil passions, by keeping under the body and subduing it. They had also a notion that a sense of shame implied sin, so that...who aimed at sinlessness was enjoined to walk about naked, with the air or sky (Dig) as his sole covering (Dig-ambara). In the Kalpa-sutra of the Jains...

...that if there were no sin in the world there would be no shame. Hence they argued rather illogicaDy that to get rid of clothes was to get rid of sin ;...who aimed at sinlessness was enjoined to walk about naked, with the air or sky (Dig) as his sole covering (Dig-ambara). In the Kalpa-sutra of the Jains...

...require clothes to hide their nakedness ? ' ' Sir Monier Williams suggests 2 that the Jaina ' felt that a sense of shame implied sin, so that if there...who aimed at sinlessness was enjoined to walk about naked with the air or sky (dig) as his sole covering.' The Digambara believe that Mahavira abandoned...

...implied sin, so that if there were no sin in the world, there would be no shame. Hence they argued illogically that to get rid of clothes was to get...who aimed at sinlessness was enjoined to walk about naked, with the sky (dig) as his sole covering (Dirj-ambara). In process of time a sect arose opposed...

...shame implied sin, so that if there were no sin in the world there would be no shame. Hence they argued that to get rid of clothes was to get rid of sin ;...about with the air or sky (Dig) as his sole covering. The eternal problem of the relative value of intention and action divided these Buddhist sects, as...