One who teaches by conduct
Sanskrit acharya, from achara (conduct): a teacher who lives what he teaches.
In Jainism the head of an order of monks. In wider Hindu and Buddhist use it names a respected teacher or the founder of a school.
Ahimsa, declared the supreme dharma in the Mahabharata, is the discipline of non-harm in body, speech, and mind taught by Yoga, Jainism, and the Gita.
Anekantavada is more than Jain metaphysics. It is a daily discipline of speech and listening, carried from the Tattvartha Sutra into the modern Anuvrat movement and practiced today in disagreement.
The twenty-four Tirthankaras in order, stories of the faithful, the teachings and the practices: forty-two Jain stories arranged in four groups.
The Navkar Mantra bows not to any single personality but to the virtues of the Five Supreme Beings, the Pancha Parameshti revered across all of Jainism.
The holiest Jain festival of the year — eight to ten days of fasting, scriptural study, and self-reflection, culminating in Samvatsari and the universal plea for forgiveness, Micchami Dukkadam.
Anekantavada is the Jain doctrine, rooted in the Tattvartha Sutra and Samantabhadra's Aptamimamsa, that reality has infinite facets no single viewpoint can exhaust.