RE103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Orthopraxy, Young Widows, Modern Paganism
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Carre103 lesson 6: the jain tradition and the ideal marriage. When you have completed this lesson you should be able to: Describe how ahimsa relates to some understandings of love. Explain why certain foods and consumer goods are avoided by jains and how this connects to the concept of ahimsa. Describe differences between lay and monastic food preparation, renunciation, and application of ahimsa. List the main elements of an ideal marriage . Explain the difference between the emotion of love and love as a form of ahimsa and compassion. Provide reasoning for why jains downplay the emotion of love. Hindu, buddhist, and jain traditions all stem from the vedic roots of south asia. Either passionate feelings of love run parallel to practitioners religious practice of following one of the religious paths towards moksha or they were fully integrated into tantric understandings that were employed for the realization of moksha. Self-realization is focus of jain traditions (similar to hindu and buddhist)
