Ramchandrasuri
Ramchandrasuri was a Jain monk and scholar.Biography
Ramchandrasuriji was born on 3 March 1896 in Padara village. He was a disciple of Acharya shri Prem Surishwarji and was initiated in monkhood by Muni Mangalvijayji at Gandhar in 1912. He died in 1991. The centenary of his initiation in asceticism was celebrated in Palitana, Ahmedabad, Mumbai and Gandhar in 2012.Order
Ramchandrasuri established the Ramchandrasuri Samuday, an order of Tapa Gaccha sub-sect of Svetambara Jainism. The Gachhadhipati, head of the Samuday, Hembhushansuri died in 2008 at Delhi. On 29 March 2011, Punyapalsuri was appointed as a new Gachhadhipati.
