Talk:Jainism

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Add hyperlink to the Śvētāmbara article, where the sect is mentioned in the last paragraph of lead. V. L. Mastikosa (talk) 19:56, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

 Done Day Creature (talk) 20:15, 5 January 2026 (UTC)

The History section basically gives credence to the Jaina's own dogma that their religion is eternal or at least more ancient than basically anything else. This is clearly a marginal view limited to adherents of the religion in question. (In fact, all religions claim the same thing about themselves - Buddhism, Islam, etc. - but this isn't normally presented as true in an encyclopedia.) The sources cited for this are mostly Jains themselves and hence clearly not representative of a mainstream perspective. ~2025-43840-74 (talk) 23:24, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

'The 23rd Tirthankara, Parshvanatha, was likely a historical being'

The use of the word 'being' hints that he wasn't even human. I don't know whether this is the Jain position, but it is certainly not an NPOV position. It should be 'a historical person' or something like that. ~2025-43840-74 (talk) 23:26, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

Again, the section is written in a laudatory tone, with phrases like 'a profound ecological philosophy', 'enduring relevance' etc., which would be more suitable for a Jain press release or advertising leaflet than for an encyclopedia, and the sources cited are, indeed, mostly Jain publications, which clearly can't be considered neutral, or necessarily reliable. ~2025-43840-74 (talk) 23:46, 13 January 2026 (UTC)

'Early Jain images from Mathura depict Digambara iconography until late fifth century CE where Svetambara iconography starts appearing.'

While the source does seem to be saying that most scholars have interpreted the early images to be Digambara, the author himself adheres to a different view, according to which the iconographies of the two sects were undifferentiated at the time; what he says appears in the late fifth century CE is a distinction between the two sects' iconographies. ~2025-43840-74 (talk) 00:07, 14 January 2026 (UTC)