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The Origins and Rise of Jainism

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The Origins and Rise of Jainism

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Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2016

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In 500 B.C.E., the old Vedic social order was changing as the merchant classes began to achieve upward mobility. Along with these radical cultural and economic changes, alternative religious models emerged to compete with the Vedic cosmology. Here, you?ll survey Jainism?s origins and philosophy, which require a life of total nonviolence

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