Karma as Physical Particulate Matter: Pudgala and the Soil of the Pure Soul in Jainism
Executive Briefing: The Materiality of Karma Uniquely in world religions, Jain philosophy conceives of karma not as an abstract moral ledger, but as microsco…
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Executive Briefing: The Materiality of Karma Uniquely in world religions, Jain philosophy conceives of karma not as an abstract moral ledger, but as microsco…
Executive Briefing: The Art of Transcendent Transition Sallekhana (or *Santhara*) is the highly regulated vow of gradual voluntary fasting undertaken only by…
Executive Briefing: The Sky-Clad and White-Clad Around the 3rd century BCE, the Jain community divided into Digambara (“sky-clad” / naked monks practicing ab…
Executive Briefing: An Uncreated Eternal Universe Jain cosmology rejects a creator god: the universe (Loka) is uncreated and eternal, shaped like a human sta…
Executive Briefing: Asking Forgiveness from All Creation During the eight or ten days of Paryushana, Jains undertake fasting and scriptural study, culminatin…
Executive Briefing: Religion as One Continuous Divine Education The Baháʼí principle of Progressive Revelation holds that religious truth is not absolute,…
Executive Briefing: The Earth is But One Country Bahá’u’lláh’s central proclamation—”The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens”—is not a p…
Executive Briefing: The Twin Systems of Knowledge ‘Abdu’l-Bahá taught that science and religion are the two wings upon which human intelligence can soar: re…
Executive Briefing: The Gender Balance of Civilization As early as 1863, Bahá’u’lláh promulgated the complete equality of women and men, declaring that wor…
Executive Briefing: The Dawning Place of Remembrance Every Bahá’í House of Worship (*Mashriqu’l-Adhkár*) is nine-sided with nine doors open to people of a…