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The Jain path aims at freeing the soul from karmic bondage. Its core includes the Three Jewels of Right Faith, Right Knowledge and Right Conduct, rigorous non-violence, the five vows, non-attachment and the philosophical doctrine of Anekantavada.
Digambara and Shvetambara are the two major Jain traditions. They share the core Jain framework of non-violence, karma, liberation and the Tirthankara tradition, but differ on monastic clothing, scriptural authority, women's liberation and some biographical traditions concerning Mahavira.
Mahavira was the twenty-fourth Tirthankara of the Jain tradition, not its first founder. Jain tradition places him within an older lineage that included Parshvanatha. He emphasised rigorous asceticism, non-violence, self-control and liberation from karmic bondage.
Buddhism spread from northern India to Sri Lanka, Central Asia, China, Korea, Japan, Southeast Asia and Tibet. Royal patronage, trade routes, monasteries, travelling monks, translation movements and local adaptation all played major roles in this expansion.
Around the sixth century BCE, the growth of states, towns, trade, crafts and new social groups coincided with major religious and philosophical questioning. Shramana traditions, including Jainism, Buddhism and the Ajivikas, developed within this wider social and intellectual transformation.
