Mantras, Healing, and Tantra in Jainism: Ellen Gough

Sensing the Sacred with Ellen Gough

Religion scholar Ellen Gough introduces Jainism through Mahavira, liberation, nonviolence, renunciation, and often-neglected ritual worlds of mantra, mandala, healing, and astrology.

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STARTING FRAMEAcademic study of Jain tradition

EXPLORESReligions & Wisdom Traditions

ENGAGEMENT EFFORTModerate

REVIEW DEPTHL2 · Inner Atlas Reviewed

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Good starting place if…

You want a serious first encounter with Jain tradition that moves beyond reducing it to one ethical principle.

Know before you begin…

The guest is an academic specialist rather than a Jain practitioner speaking devotionally; the episode does not survey contemporary Jain diversity.