ANSWER THE QUESTIONS GIVEN BELOW.
1. WHAT WERE VIHARAS?
2. WHAT ARE THE TWO BASIC RULES OF JAINISM?
3. POINT OUT TWO SIMILARITIES AND TWO DIFFERENCES BETWEEN JAINISM AND BUDDHISM.
4. EXPLAIN THE TERM 'UPANISHAD'. WHAT DO THEY CONTAIN?
5. WHO WAS SATYAKAMA JABALA?
Answers
Explanation:
(1) Vihara, early type of Buddhist monastery consisting of an open court surrounded by open cells accessible through an entrance porch. The viharas in India were originally constructed to shelter the monks during the rainy season, when it became difficult for them to lead the wanderer's life.
(2)Jains must always be truthful. Jains must always conduct business honestly. Dishonesty by not doing something is as bad as being actively dishonest. Jains must have sex only with the person they are married to.
(3)Jainism >>>> Buddhism
BuddhismBelieved in soul. >>> Did not believed in soul.
Did not believed in soul.Prominence was give to lay followers. >>> Prominence was given to Sangha and monks
(4) The Upanishads contain four sentences, the Mahāvākyas (Great Sayings), which were used by Shankara to establish the identity of Atman and Brahman as scriptural truth: "Prajñānam brahma" - "Consciousness is Brahman" (Aitareya Upanishad) "Aham brahmāsmi" - "I am Brahman" (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad)
(5) Satyakama Jabala also known as Sathyakāmā Jabali is a boy, and later a Vedic sage, who first appears in Chapter IV of the ancient Vedic text, the Chandogya Upanishad.[1] As a boy, he enquires about his father from his mother. His mother Jabala, tells him that she went about many places in her youth, and did not know who his father was.[2]
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