{"id":372,"date":"2013-11-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/jainism-a-great-introduction.html"},"modified":"2014-07-27T16:22:32","modified_gmt":"2014-07-27T21:22:32","slug":"jainism-a-great-introduction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/worldreligions\/2013\/11\/jainism-a-great-introduction.html","title":{"rendered":"Jainism: A Great Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UHQ5VyjybL8?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Here\u2019s an entertaining video about the teachings of Vardhamana Mahavira and the spread of Jainism.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Find out more about Jainism at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vam.ac.uk\/page\/j\/jainism\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">the Victoria and Albert Museum<\/a>, which has \u201cone of the most important permanent collections of Jain art in the UK.\u201d \u00a0It\u2019s online material is awesome.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/religion\/religions\/jainism\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">BBC Religion<\/a> also has a good site for information about basic beliefs and customs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>And here\u2019s an interesting clip from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wnet\/religionandethics\/2013\/08\/30\/august-30-2013-indias-jains\/19924\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">PBS\u2019s Religion and Ethics Newwekly<\/a>\u00a0about\u00a0modern Jains in India today.<\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/video.pbs.org\/viralplayer\/2365071047\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"450\" height=\"332\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here\u2019s an entertaining video about the teachings of Vardhamana Mahavira and the spread of Jainism. 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