The sky-clad branch, whose monks renounce clothing itself and which holds that the canon of the Shvetambaras is lost and that women must be reborn male to be liberated.
Digambara Jainism is the branch of the south and of the ancient line of Bhadrabahu. Its monks' nudity is the visible sign of its reading of renunciation, and its scholars composed a literature of their own where the old canon, on their account, had perished.
Produced by Digambara-Shvetambara Division
Traditionally 1st century CE and after · The clothing of monks, the survival of the canon, and whether a woman may be liberated in a woman's body.
Current status of that division: In dialogue.
Digambara across the site
Sources
Primary
- Kundakunda, Samayasara.
Secondary
- Padmanabh S. Jaini, The Jaina Path of Purification (1979).