Tirthankara
तीर्थंकर tīrthaṅkaraIn Jainism, a 'ford-maker', a supreme enlightened teacher who shows the way across the ocean of rebirth; two of the twenty-four tirthankaras of this age are held to have been born in Kashi.
Where this term appears
- What are Mudras? Lineages
It is the pose of the meditating Buddha, of the Jain Tirthankaras, and of Vishnu shown as a yogi, and some would trace it as far back as the cross-legged seated figure on a famous Indus-civilisation seal, older…
- What is Diwali? Worship
For Jains, the night of the Kartika new moon is the night Mahavira, the twenty-fourth and last of the Tirthankaras , the great teachers of the age, attained nirvana , final release.
- The Swastika: An Ancient Symbol and Its Meaning Deities
It is one of the eight auspicious signs, the ashtamangala , in the Jain tradition, where it is the emblem of one of the tirthankaras .
- The swastika was sacred for 5,000 years before the Nazis Journal
It is part of the Jain flag, it stands for the seventh Tirthankara, Suparshvanatha, and its four arms are read as the four states into which a soul can be born, or the fourfold Jain community, the whole cosmos …
- 779 CE, and the Śabaras are already a costume Treatise
Ṛṣabhanātha is the first tīrthaṅkara , the first of the twenty-four ford-makers of Jainism.
- The city of four faiths Treatise
And in Jainism the supreme teachers, the enlightened ones who show the way across the ocean of rebirth, are called tirthankaras , the "ford-makers", the ones who build the crossing.
- The Summer Turn Treatise
In Jainism the day carries its own meaning, the day the first Tirthankara , Rishabhanatha , broke a fast of many months with sugarcane juice, and Jains who keep the year-long Varshitap fast break it on this day…
- Victory and Light Treatise
In Jainism it marks the liberation of Mahavira , the last Tirthankara ; in Sikhism the return of the sixth Guru from imprisonment.