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The 12 pages that link to Jiva, each with the reason it gives.

• JainismBroader topic: Liberation concerns the soul’s release from karmic bondage.

• SamsaraRelated: Jain accounts center the jiva as the entity bound to repeated births.

• AtmanCompared with: Its emphasis on the individual soul differs from Advaita accounts of Atman as universal reality.

• AhimsaBroader topic: Recognizing souls in living beings grounds Jain restrictions on causing harm.

• Dvaita VedantaRelated: Dvaita holds each soul to be eternally distinct from God and other souls.

• KumārajīvaRelated: Her decision to enter monastic life helped set the course of Kumārajīva’s early Buddhist formation.

• TirthankaraRelated: The Tirthankara's liberated soul exemplifies the potential Jainism attributes to every jiva.

• Karma in JainismNarrower topic: Karma binds to this conscious substance rather than defining it.

• Jain philosophyRelated: The existence of individual souls grounds Jain accounts of life, responsibility, and liberation.

• MadhvacharyaRelated: Dvaita treats each jiva as eternally distinct from Vishnu and dependent on him.

• Tattvartha SutraRelated: The sutra begins its account of reality by distinguishing living substance from nonliving substance.

• DvaitadvaitaRelated: The school explains each soul’s relation to Brahman through simultaneous difference and non-difference.