Historia, sociedad, filosofía y práctica
For the first time, a monograph dedicated entirely to a fascinating religion, yet one barely known outside of South Asia, is presented to the Spanish-speaking public: Jainism. It is a millennia-old tradition of inestimable richness and depth, with very distinct characteristics. Contrary to what some believe, Jainism is neither a "poor relation" of Buddhism nor a strange, atheistic, ascetic sect within Hinduism.
Jainism is, above all, the religion of non-violence (ahimsa), an ideal later embraced by all Indian religions and universalized by Gandhi in the 20th century. Like Buddhism, Jainism is a religion without God, which paradoxically opens itself to the truly sacred in the innermost being of every living thing in the cosmos. And it is the spirituality of non-absolutism (anekāntavāda), a particular form of philosophical pluralism of impressive modernity.
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