A thread
Sanskrit sutra (thread, rule): a short text or discourse. Pali sutta is the same word.
In Buddhism a sutra is a discourse attributed to the Buddha; in Hindu and Jain use it can be a terse rule meant to be learned by heart, as in the Yoga Sutras.
A Jain prayer of repentance for harm caused to living beings while moving, seeking forgiveness for unintentional violence.
This selection from Patanjali's Yoga Sutras covers the five kleshas (causes of suffering) and the eight-limbed path (ashtanga) of yogic practice.
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.
Diwali is a five-day season at the Kartika new moon (October-November). This sets out the days, the Padma Purana and al-Biruni, and which stories are later.
The twenty-four Tirthankaras in order, stories of the faithful, the teachings and the practices: forty-two Jain stories arranged in four groups.
How Losar, the Tibetan New Year, is kept: Gutor cleaning, guthuk soup, altar offerings, prayer flags and Chotrul Duchen, and how customs differ by region.
Mahavir Jayanti marks Mahavira's birth on the bright thirteenth of Chaitra. This article sets out the day, what the Kalpa Sutra tells, and where the traditions differ.