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Ram Shekhada is the founder of DharmaDaily. He started the site to give curious readers clear, well-sourced explanations of Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh ideas, festivals, and scriptures, written without sales pitches or sensationalism.
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Where the refuge formula comes from, what the commentaries say it protects against, how a refuge is kept or broken, and how Theravada, Tibetan, and Chan teachers read the Buddha, Dhamma, and Sangha.
What the Acaranga Sutra, the Kalpa Sutra, and later Digambara biographies say about Mahavira's life, where the two Jain traditions agree, where they part, and why their differences follow doctrine.
Why Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, and Sikh traditions avoid meat for different reasons, what Manu, the Pali canon, Jain lay codes, and Guru Nanak actually say, and where each tradition still argues.
A short guide to each of the ten Sikh Gurus from Nanak to Gobind Singh, how succession actually worked, the rival claimants it produced, and the scholarly debate over the turn to arms.
What a Tirthankara is, why there are exactly twenty-four in each half of the Jain time cycle, how to tell their images apart, and why Jains worship teachers who can no longer answer.
The Jain teaching that reality has many sides, how syadvada's sevenfold predication and the theory of standpoints work, where the elephant parable comes from, and why it matters now.
Ahimsa, satya, asteya, brahmacharya, and aparigraha, what the five vows mean, how the Tattvartha Sutra defines them, and how lay Jains scale them for household life.
Kes, kangha, kara, kachera, and kirpan: the five articles of faith given to the Khalsa at Vaisakhi 1699, what each symbolizes, and how initiated Sikhs wear them in daily life.
Panatipata veramani through surameraya majja pamadatthana veramani: the five training rules, their Pali names, how lay Buddhists take and renew them, and their place on Uposatha days.
