Origin from 2025
From 3 to 6 July 2025, the Federation of Jain Associations in North America held its twenty third biennial convention in Schaumburg, Illinois, under the theme Unity in Diversity, A Path to Peace. More than five thousand attendees came from the seventy two Jain centers JAINA represents across the United States and Canada plus ten further countries including India, the United Kingdom and Germany, gathering around the Jain principles of nonviolence, many sided viewpoints and non possessiveness in what organizers called one of the largest Jain gatherings held outside India.
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StatusEstablished marks the diaspora federation's own continued biennial gathering and its stated attendance, not an audited count of Jains in North America or elsewhere. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Americas directly: "From 3 to 6 July 2025, the Federation of Jain Associations in North America held its twenty third biennial convention in Schaumburg, Illinois, under the theme Unity in Diversity, A Path to Peace."
This source names Canada directly: "across the United States and Canada plus ten further countries including India, the United Kingdom and Germany, gathering around the Jain principles of nonviolence, many sided viewpoints and non..."
This source names Illinois directly: "biennial convention in Schaumburg, Illinois, under the theme Unity in Diversity, A Path to Peace."
This source names United Kingdom directly: "further countries including India, the United Kingdom and Germany, gathering around the Jain principles of nonviolence, many sided viewpoints and non possessiveness in what organizers called one of..."
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Closes a two year gap since 2023's citation of India halting tourism at Sammed Shikharji, moving the map from a dispute over access to a holy site in India to the diaspora's own institutional life in North America.
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