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The Daily Routine of a Mūrtipūjak Mendicant The Daily Routine of a Mūrtipūjak Mendicant
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Sermons Sermons
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Gifting Gifting
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Gifting of Food to a Śvetāmbar Mendicant Gifting of Food to a Śvetāmbar Mendicant
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Gifting of Food to a Digambar Mendicant Gifting of Food to a Digambar Mendicant
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Gifting, Merit, and Sin Gifting, Merit, and Sin
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Veneration and Worship Veneration and Worship
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Guru‐Vandan Guru‐Vandan
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Guru‐Pūjā Guru‐Pūjā
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Devotion and Grace Devotion and Grace
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Concluding Observations Concluding Observations
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4 Gifting and Grace: Patterns of Lay‐Mendicant Interaction
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Published:July 2001
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Abstract
The world‐renouncing monks and nuns – the mendicants of the Jain tradition – are the living examples of the path to liberation. This chapter details their daily practice, which revolves around practices designed to reduce the karma that binds them to suffering and rebirth. The mendicants are also teachers of the laity, and so are expected to deliver frequent sermons on religious topics. The mendicants are dependent upon the laity for food, and the gifting of food provides Jain laity the opportunity to increase their meritorious karma (punya) and wear away sinful or demeritorious karma (pap). Jains understand that this process is accentuated if the layperson expresses great devotion (bhakti) to the mendicants, who in return shower their grace upon their lay devotees.
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