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Religious Movements — Jainism and Buddhism - Short Trick

Sects, Tirthankaras, vows, councils, disciples, Tripitaka and universities — one sentence each

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  • Panda Two colours in one word = two names
  • ➜ Order the numbered order matters · ⇄ Any order no order
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Other Heterodox Sects

Schools that, like the Buddha and Mahavira, rejected Vedic authority — and their teachers.

Pairs

School — teacher

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Ajinkya bought makhan near the goshala.

Ajivika (Niyativada)=Makkhali Gosala — everything is fixed by fate · spent some years with Mahavira

Uma gave Ajit a hair blanket.

Uchchhedavada=Ajita Kesakambali — materialism, death ends everything

Lokesh charged his phone.

Lokayata (materialism)=Brihaspati / Charvaka — only what the five senses perceive exists

Akash sat idle beside Puran.

Akriyavada=Purana Kassapa — actions earn no merit and no sin

Ask Sanjay and he says neither yes nor no.

Ajnanavada (skepticism)=Sanjaya Belatthiputta — affirms nothing, denies nothing · Jain texts count 67 kinds

Akritavada (Sassatavada) — Pakudha Kachchayana, seven eternal elements · the Ajivikas got caves from Ashoka (Barabar) and Dasharatha (Nagarjuni) · about 62 sects in the Buddha’s time.

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Jainism

Tirthankara symbols, the five vows, the councils, the two sects and the monuments.

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The Buddha, His Teaching and Disciples

The Eightfold Path in order, the chief disciples and the Hinayana–Mahayana split.

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The Four Buddhist Councils

The order of venues, and each council’s year, president, patron and outcome.

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Texts and Universities

The Tripitaka, key Buddhist texts and the founders of the Buddhist universities.

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