Sllekhana

This website contains a newspaper article from the UK daily newspaper, 'The Independent,' that discusses the Jain ritual of sallekhana, in which an individual voluntarily starves themselves to death in order to achieve nirvana. This article discusses one such occurrence where a Jain woman undertook this ritual. This article is written objectively.

URL
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/a-deadly-belief-is-reborn-beyond-life-beyond-death-501371.html

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38568

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