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Exploring Jainism
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Photo Courtesy of Peter Engler.
Non-violence and self-control are two of the main tenets of one of the world’s oldest and smallest religions, Jainism. In India there are only four million or so practitioners of this strictly vegetarian faith, and in the U.S. that number is closer to 100,000. Last Saturday, the
Culinary Historians of Chicago
sponsored a Jain lunch in suburban Glendale Heights,and
Eight Forty-Eight
contributor David Hammond pulled up a chair.
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