24 Tirthankars

24 tirthankar Artwork for Shah family : mix media

Tirthankara’s were not founders of any religion, but great omniscient teachers who lived at various times in man’s cultural history. They accomplished the highest spiritual goal of existence and then taught their contemporaries the way to reach it by crossing over to the safe shores of spiritual purity. Each new tirthankara preaches the same basic Jain philosophy, but they give the Jain way of life subtly different forms in order to suit the age and the culture in which they teach. In what Jains call the present agethere have been 24 tirthankaras. The Artwork is an abstract representation of the 24 tirthankaras done in varied styles by artists across India.