Moodabidri
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Moodabidri or Moodubidire is a city and taluk in Dakshina Kannada district. It lies 34 km northeast of the district headquarters, Mangaluru, in Karnataka, India.
Saavira Kambada Basadi Jain temple at Moodabidri
Jain Bhattaraka Samadhis
Guru basadi, built in 714 AD
Holy Cross Church, Hosabettu, Moodabidri
Digambara
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Digambara is one of the two major schools of Jainism, the other being Śvetāmbara. The Sanskrit word Digambara means "sky-clad", referring to their traditional monastic practice of neither possessing n
Moodabidri
…architecture. 18 Jain temples, known as Basadis, were constructed during this period. The Jain Math at Moodabidri is headed by a Bhattaraka belonging to the Mula Sangh order. The most famous among them are Guru basadi, Tribhuvana Tilaka Chudamani Basadi (known as "Thousand Pillar Temple") and Ammanavara Basadi…
Idol of Mahavira at Shri Mahavir Ji Temple, depicting Digambara iconography
Image depicting Acharya Kundakunda
Jain temple painting explaining Anekantavada with Blind men and an elephant
The longest inscription at the site, and the earliest known Tamil-Brāhmī inscription. It records the gift by the Pandya king Neṭuñceḻiyaṉ of a monastery to the senior Jain monk Nanta-siri Kuvaṉ.