Sects from Sanatan
Blog #14 Jainism and Buddhism Abstracts: The sixth century BCE has been seen as a landmark in the history of India. There had been many rapid religious, political, social and economic changes, not only in India, but also on the cultural and traditional history of the world. There was discontent among the people regarding the socio religious order of the Brahmanical system in India. The religion had become more rigid and complex. This led to the opposition of thoughts and eventual establishment of new and more lenient religious sects. Vardhamana Mahavira and Gautam Buddha brought about religious reformation in India, Confucius in China and Zoroaster in Iran . All these reformers, unknown to one another, propagated new and more accommodating religions. They questioned the orthodox religions and practices that existed during...