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- 5 point prostration with calm yet deliberate posture-statue worship
1- praise of the Jinas
2- confession
3- abandoning the body |
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Limb Puja is performed First
1. water is poured on the image to cleanse it and symbolize purity
2. sandalwood paste is put on image to “cool the passions”
3. Flowers placed on image (faith in the teachings)
Then Facing Puja is Performed
4. Incense waved to burn karmic particles
5. light is waived by the image to symbolize enlightenment
Last is the Internal (Bhava) Puja - at a distance from the image
6. Rice is offered - shaped into a swastika
7. Sweets are offered in the form of the 3 jewels and a crescent to symbolize liberated beings
8. Fruit is offered/ money/ other food
- The worshipper then prays and contemplates, repeats “Nishi” |
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| the pūjā with things (dravya), i.e. in a temple in front of images and using other substances |
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| the pūjā of internal attitudes, dispositions, emotions, etc. that is always said to accompany the former, but is sometimes said to be the only important aspect of pūjā. |
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-the student gives thanks to the teacher
- 5 point position
- brings humility and gets rid of arrogance
- recieves the blessing of the teacher in the form of knowledge |
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- ritual to become closer to the soul
- sit in one place for 48 min
- read religious books, pray, worship, recite rosary, or do meditation
- preventing the accumulation of new karmas
- penance removes accumulated karmas |
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One of the oli (fasting)
- food is meant to taste gross (not seasoned)
- spice free
- boiled or cooked
- drink rice water |
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- auction that takes place
- raises money for Jain temples
- right of passage for some youth
- bid for chance to take part in rituals
- bid with ghee to make it less monetary
- boosts egos, outdated??
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- last day of Paryusana
- celebrates asceticism and confession
- involves ksamapana (asking for forgivness) through greeting cards
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Festival of Lights
- for jains it is the celebration of Mahavira's enlightenment; about moksa marga
- for Hindus it is about well-being, not moksa, and worship of Hindu gods |
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- religious holiday/ an auspicious day for festival
- calendrical moment- cycle/these holidays structure the year
- For jains these moments are Diwali, Paryusana, Oli |
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- monastic lineage
ex: Svet vs Dig
- a sect or group derived from a lineage
- group of thought/ lineage of a certain teacher |
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- making a vow of refusal- small temporary vow- celibacy, violence, fasting- way to limit interaction with the world
- mimicking what monks/nuns do all the time
- take the vow in front of a monk/nun, or a statue of a Jina
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- Confession that you are a sinner, confess it to yourself
- to walk in a new light and rectify your own religious path |
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