Siddhachalam's own published account of its founding, stating it was established in 1983 by Acharya Sushil Kumarji on 120 acres in rural northwestern New Jersey and calling itself the only Jain tirtha outside India. Describes its main temple as deliberately holding images from both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions side by side and observing the auspicious days of both, so that the ashram serves the wider Jain community without carrying either branch's divisions abroad.
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Reliability Tier2
The ashram's own published account of its own founding, tier 2 for a primary institutional statement of its own history, corroborated on the founding year, founder and location by the independently sourced Wikipedia article above. NotesUsed for the ashram's own account of its 1983 founding and for the deliberate Digambara and Svetambara unity in its main temple.
Citation
PublisherSiddhachalam
URLhttps://www.siddhachalam.org/about/about-siddhachalam/
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This source names Digambara directly: "holding images from both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions side by side and observing the auspicious days of both, so that the ashram serves the wider Jain community without carrying either..."
Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
This source names India directly: "itself the only Jain tirtha outside India."
Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
This source names New Jersey directly: "on 120 acres in rural northwestern New Jersey and calling itself the only Jain tirtha outside India."
Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
This source names Svetambara directly: "images from both the Digambara and Svetambara traditions side by side and observing the auspicious days of both, so that the ashram serves the wider Jain community without carrying either branch's..."
Source About Siddhachalam (Siddhachalam.org)
Claims Backed By This Source (21 claims)
This source backs 21 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. As cited relationships: 10 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Spread Events, 11 claims: 4 well-attested, 6 holds, 1 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 6 well-attested, 4 holds.
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