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Why do only ascetic Jain men live life without clothes? Why not the women?

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Only Digamber Jain saints go without clothes, not Swetamber Jain saints. In Digamber communty, women saints are not permitted and so your question is not relavant and is not tenable. Swetamber community has women saints too. Swetamber saints wear mask on their mouth.
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The Digambar Jains look down upon women and believe that women are unworthy for Moksha, the ultimate achievement of a religious man. Therefore these misogynists never allow women to go through the prescribed spiritual phases (yes, nudity for Digambar Jains is entirely spiritual).
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this sect of jains believe that only men are worthy of being saints and therefore entitled to be moksha (free of) clothing. women are not entiteld to that status

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