The white-clad branch, which keeps the canon the councils preserved, clothes its monks in white, and holds that women may be liberated in a woman's body.
Shvetambara Jainism is the branch of the north and west, the keeper of the Agamas and the tradition of the councils at Pataliputra and Valabhi. Its sub-branches divided over image worship itself, the standing question of its later centuries.
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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.
Sub-branch / Family
Sub-branch / Family
Sthanakavasi
The branch that worships in bare halls without images, holding image worship to be a later corruption of the Jina's teaching.
Sub-branch / Family
Terapanth
The branch founded by Acharya Bhikshu in 1760, which unified its order under one acharya and its thirteen principles, against the laxity it saw…
Shvetambara across the site
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Sources
Primary
- The Agamas, the Shvetambara canon.
Secondary
- John E. Cort, Jains in the World (2001).