Medieval stories from this faith were collected in The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden by Yale scholar Phyllis Granoff. According to this non-Abrahamic faith, the distant past included "wishing trees," which fulfilled needs when asked. Adherents of this faith believe that as a person behaves badly, particles accumulate on their soul, unless they become a kevalin. A minority sect of this religion believes that a great famine broke the transmission of all authentic Agama scriptures, and that Mallinath was a man, like all twenty-three of the other figures it reveres as "ford-builders," or tirthankaras. For 10 points, name this faith divided into Svetambara and Digambara sects, a monastic Indian religion founded by Mahavira whose five vo
Medieval stories from this faith were collected in The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden by Yale scholar Phyllis Granoff. According to this non-Abrahamic faith, the distant past included "wishing trees," which fulfilled needs when asked. Adherents of this faith believe that as a person behaves badly, particles accumulate on their soul, unless they become a kevalin. A minority sect of this religion believes that a great famine broke the transmission of all authentic Agama scriptures, and that Mallinath was a man, like all twenty-three of the other figures it reveres as "ford-builders," or tirthankaras. For 10 points, name this faith divided into Svetambara and Digambara sects, a monastic Indian religion founded by Mahavira whose five vows include ahimsa, or non-violence.