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'''Jnatiputra''' (Skt. ''Jñātiputra''; Tib. ཉེ་དུའི་བུ།, [[Wyl.]] ''nye du’i bu'') was a leader of the [[Jain]] community, often identified as Mahavira, the twenty-fourth teacher of the Jain tradition. He appears frequently in Buddhist literature as an antagonist to [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] and his followers, revealing a simmering rivalry between the Buddhist and Jain communities. .<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>
'''Jnatiputra''' (Skt. ''Jñātiputra''; Tib. ཉེ་དུའི་བུ།, [[Wyl.]] ''nye du’i bu'') was a leader of the [[Jain]] community, often identified as Mahavira, the twenty-fourth teacher of the Jain tradition. He appears frequently in Buddhist literature as an antagonist to [[Shakyamuni Buddha]] and his followers, revealing a simmering rivalry between the Buddhist and Jain communities.<ref>84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.</ref>


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[[Category: Buddha’s Contemporaries]]

Latest revision as of 14:40, 29 December 2021

Jnatiputra (Skt. Jñātiputra; Tib. ཉེ་དུའི་བུ།, Wyl. nye du’i bu) was a leader of the Jain community, often identified as Mahavira, the twenty-fourth teacher of the Jain tradition. He appears frequently in Buddhist literature as an antagonist to Shakyamuni Buddha and his followers, revealing a simmering rivalry between the Buddhist and Jain communities.[1]

References

  1. 84000 Translating the Words of the Buddha.