History

The history of Jainism goes very deep into human history.Jainism arose in the 7^th century BC in India. Jains believe that Jainism has no one founder and that it always existed and that it always will exist, but sometimes is forgotten by humans. It is predominately in India but also there are reasonable populations in America, Canada, and Belgium. The first jain leader that was reliably documented was the twenty- third tirthankar Parshvanatha. But Mahavira the 24^th and last tirthankar is usually said to be the founder (Religion Facts). He was born in Circa 550 BCE. He commited Salekhana, which is fasting to death (Robinson).  Jains started to split up into two different sects. In the third century B.C. and in the beginning of the first century B.C. in Christianity (jaindharmonline). Jainism as you can see, as a very old religion, maybe one of the oldest ones.