Dalits of India need Jainism, Jains need to spread their religion. Hundreds of thousands people from various Dalit communities have adopted Jainism in last few decades, millions want the same. This is the only place where you can get information about this subject. Thursday, April 7, 2011. As many as 60 Jain temples have come up, and religious schools are running in 40villages to teach the neo-converts. The Sabha is one of the two local organisations involved in conversion .

Curated commentaries on the Jain cosmos. The Jain festivities are few, and of them, a very important one occurs during the four months of the traditional monsoon season. During this time, the svetambara and the digambara Jains respectively have an 8-day and a 10-day period of increased austerities. The former is known as Paryushana and the latter is known as Das lakshana. Even laypeople enter a format of life which is essentially quite close to a kind of asceticism.