Jainism Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Pilgrimages=== {{Main|Tirtha (Jainism)}} [[File:Shikharji Parasnath Giridih.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Shikharji]]]] Jain ''Tirtha'' (pilgrim) sites are divided into the following categories:{{sfn|Titze|1998}} * ''Siddhakshetra''{{snds}}Site of the [[Moksha (Jainism)|''moksha'']] of an ''arihant'' (''kevalin'') or ''tirthankara'', such as: [[Mount Kailash|Ashtapada]] of [[Rishabhanatha]], [[Shikharji]] of 20 [[Tirthankara]], [[Girnar]] of [[Neminatha]], [[Pawapuri]] of [[Mahaveera]], [[Champapuri]] (capital of [[Anga]]) of [[Vasupujya]], [[Mangi-Tungi]] of [[Rama|Ram]], [[Palitana]] of 3 [[Pandavas]]. * ''Atishayakshetra''{{snds}}Locations where divine events are believed to have occurred, such as: [[Mahavirji]], [[Rishabhdeo]], [[Kundalpur]], [[Tijara Jain Temple|Tijara]], and [[Aharji]]. * ''Puranakshetra''{{snds}} Places associated with the lives of great men, such as: [[Ayodhya]], [[Vidisha]], [[Hastinapur]], and [[Rajgir]]. * ''Gyanakshetra''{{snds}} Places associated with famous ''[[acharya]]s'', or centers of learning, such as [[Shravanabelagola]]. Outside contemporary India, Jain communities built [[Nagarparkar Jain Temples|temples]] in locations such as [[Nagarparkar]], [[Sindh]] (Pakistan). However, according to a UNESCO tentative world heritage site application, Nagarparkar was not a "major religious centre or a place of pilgrimage" for Jainism, but it was once an important cultural landscape before "the last remaining Jain community left the area in 1947 at Partition".<ref name=":0">{{cite web |url=https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6111/ |title=Nagarparkar Cultural Landscape |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170510093259/https://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/6111/ |archive-date=10 May 2017 |url-status=live |work=Tantative Lists |publisher=[[UNESCO]] [[World Heritage Centre]]}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page