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Eighteen accounts of what is real, each set out in its own terms and each with its own page.
All World Views Does God Exist?The Terapanth stream of the Jainism timeline.
Streams: All of Jainism Digambara Shvetambara Sthanakavasi Terapanth
Acharya Bhikshu, formed in the Sthanakavasi line, separated with a small company in 1760 over what he judged a laxity in monastic discipline, and founded the order that took the name Terapanth. Its defining mark endures: every Terapanthi monk and nun owes obedience to a single acharya, and its thirteen principles keep the community's discipline in one hand. Bhikshu led the order until his death in 1803, through years of hardship and hostility.
Acharya Tulsi, the ninth acharya of the Terapanth, launched the Anuvrat movement at Sardarshahar in 1949, offering laypeople small vows, anuvrat, against dishonesty, greed, and violence as a discipline for public life. The movement carried Terapanthi teaching far beyond the Jain community and made Tulsi a national figure in the moral reconstruction of the new Indian republic.
Acharya Tulsi created the Saman order around 1980, a rank between householder and monk whose members, the samans and samanis, keep most monastic vows and may travel abroad to teach. The order let Terapanthi teachers serve the growing Jain diaspora in person, and its samanis became the best known Jain teachers in North America and Europe.
On the death of Acharya Mahapragya in 2010, the tenth acharya of the Terapanth, his disciple Acharya Mahashraman succeeded as the eleventh, keeping the order's discipline under a single teacher's authority as Bhikshu's rule requires. His journeys on foot across India, the Ahimsa Yatra, carried the Terapanthi teaching of nonviolence through hundreds of towns and villages.
