ABSTRACT
Jainism has basically one account of ultimate reality; there are (andalways have been) persons and there are (and always have been) thephysical elements of which observable physical things are composed. There is no deity on which either depend for existence or arrange-
ment. The Jain tradition is doctrinally homogeneous, so there is no need to say that it is this rather than that type of Jainism that is being described.
