Umāsvāti
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Umāsvāti · c. 2nd–5th century CE
In the books · 1 chapter
Who this is
Philosophy — the systematizer of Jainism; author of the Tattvārthasūtra, the first Jain work written in Sanskrit and the one text every branch of the tradition accepts.
“The Jain church split over everything — clothing, women, whether the scriptures had even survived — and could not split this book; and the line that a 2,500-year-old religion chose as its motto sits, quietly, in the middle of a physics lesson.”
The big idea, in the book's words:
“The whole of Jain doctrine — souls, karma as sticky matter, the path out — compressed into roughly 350 Sanskrit aphorisms so exact that both halves of a divided religion have kept the same book as scripture for some fifteen centuries.”
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