Tuesday, January 03, 2017

Colossus


statue of Gommaṭteśvara Bahubali,
Shravanabelagola, Karnataka


Bahubali is an important Saint in the Jain tradition. Shravanabelagola is located about 157 km from Bangalore.

Many people confuse Jainism and Buddhism. They have some similarities, in that both were reform movements in opposition to the rigidities and contradictions of orthodox Hinduism at the time of their founding. (Mahavir, the founder of Jainism was born c. 599 BCE; the Buddha (Gautama Siddhartha) was born c. 567 BCE.) The main difference between the two of them was that Buddhism moderated the severity of Jainism, and made it more accessible to laymen to practise.

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