Sanātana-rooted religion
Jainism
जैन धर्मJaina DharmaFounder / origin — 24 Tīrthaṅkaras · last: Mahāvīra (6th c. BCE)
Non-violence (ahiṃsā), non-absolutism (anekāntavāda), non-possession (aparigraha); liberation through right faith, knowledge, and conduct.
Jainism preserves an ancient śramaṇa lineage of 24 Tīrthaṅkaras, culminating in Mahāvīra. Its metaphysics is a rigorous pluralism: infinite jīvas migrate through beginningless saṃsāra shaped by karmic matter that clings to them. Liberation (mokṣa) comes through the three jewels — samyak-darśana, samyak-jñāna, samyak-cāritra — and the great vows of non-violence, truth, non-stealing, celibacy, and non-possession. Its doctrine of anekāntavāda (many-sidedness) is one of the most sophisticated theories of perspectival truth in world philosophy.
