[Mod] Dharmachakra - An Indian and Dharmic Religion Improvement mod

[vyshan]

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Current Version: 1.0.2 “Chandra” (Released 29/09/20, compatible with vanilla patch 1.1.*)​

Dharmachakra is as the title indicates a mod dedicated to India and the neighboring Regions like Tibet and Burma, as well as the Dharmic Religions of Buddhism, Jainism, and Hinduism and the religions that have been influenced by them. There is a new religious map, tweaked tenets and doctrines, bald Buddhist monks and nuns, and more.

I welcome any and all feedback - I am still getting the hang of CK3 modding atm. So please let me know if you encounter any bugs, find things imbalanced, if you have any suggestions, or anything else about the mod. I hope to add more decisions, events, and mechanics with future updates to the mod.

Feel free to use my work in your mods - all I ask is that I am credited and (if possible) to give me a heads up.

Features​

These are some of the features of the mod.

• New religious map for India and Burma in 867 and 1066​
• New Hindu Sects of Suyraism and Shrautism​
• Bald Buddhist Monks and Nuns​
• Digambara and Yapaniya Jains are only naked if they are monks​
• Buddhist and Jain temple holders and court chaplains are monks​
• new tenet set up for Jains​

 

[vyshan]

Screenshots

867 religious map

1066 Religious Map

 

[vyshan]

reserved

 

[Lordinquisitor]

Thank you for the mod!

It´s very nice to see a mod in an often quite neglected, but so very interesting, area of the map.

If i may offer a small critique; I think some information on the new hinduistic sects and what exactly has been changed in jainism might be informative.

 

[Caeserion]

Hi can't wait for your mod! India is my favourite place and I love anything that enriches it.

Can I ask that you rename Suryaism to Saura? That is the endonym for the followers of Surya.

 

[nouser]

plz make it available for steam workshop

 

[Battlex]

Screenshots

867 religious map

1066 Religious Map

Could you include comparisons with the vanilla so we can see the changes. How does the change in tenets effect the meta balance, is there now a new most powerful form of Hinduism?

 

[vyshan]

Thank you for the mod!

It´s very nice to see a mod in an often quite neglected, but so very interesting, area of the map.

If i may offer a small critique; I think some information on the new hinduistic sects and what exactly has been changed in jainism might be informative.

Sure.
Jain Info:

• Svetemabara Jains tenets are: Monasticism, Dharmic Pacifism, Vows of Poverty
• Digamabara Jain tenets are: Monasticism, Dharmic Pacifism, Ritual Hospitality
• Yapaniya Jain tenets are: Monasticism, Dharmic Pacifism, Sallekhana(Consolamentum)
• Dharmic Pacifism now allows you to meditate in seclusion.
• Jains are now Pluralistic instead of Righteous

Hindu:

• Suryaism: Sun Worship, Esotericism, and Inner Journey
• Shrautism: Ritual Hospitality, Legalism, and Esotericism
• Shaivism: Reincarnation, Monasticism, Esotericism

I changed Shaivism's tenets to reflect that Shaivism was one of the traditions that developed Tantric Practices, and I want to down the line include some stuff about Tantric Esoteric practices for the traditions of Buddhism and Hinduism that developed and practiced them.

I have a number of plans for improving things in the future including a more involved Bhakti movement, wandering jains, Buddhist retreats, and more.

plz make it available for steam workshop

Sure I will put it on the Steam Workshop later today.

 

[vyshan]

Hi can't wait for your mod! India is my favourite place and I love anything that enriches it.

Can I ask that you rename Suryaism to Saura? That is the endonym for the followers of Surya.

Sure I can do that.

Could you include comparisons with the vanilla so we can see the changes. How does the change in tenets effect the meta balance, is there now a new most powerful form of Hinduism?

As for the meta balance, I haven't seen a single most powerful religion, usually in my test games I would see blocs forming, Shaivism in Southern India and either Vaishivinism or Srikula Shaktism in the northwest. Still if there are any balance issues that you or others find, let me know.

One thing I do highly recommend is to play on slower conversion speeds. This way the more diverse nature of India can be maintained. As default speeds go far faster then what should happen IMO.

Here is 867 vanilla vs mod

Here is 1066 Mod vs vanilla

Also if there are any suggestions for the religious map, feel free to let me know.

 

[Lordinquisitor]

Sure.
Jain Info:

• Svetemabara Jains tenets are: Monasticism, Dharmic Pacifism, Vows of Poverty
• Digamabara Jain tenets are: Monasticism, Dharmic Pacifism, Ritual Hospitality
• Yapaniya Jain tenets are: Monasticism, Dharmic Pacifism, Sallekhana(Consolamentum)
• Dharmic Pacifism now allows you to meditate in seclusion.
• Jains are now Pluralistic instead of Righteous

Hindu:

• Suryaism: Sun Worship, Esotericism, and Inner Journey
• Shrautism: Ritual Hospitality, Legalism, and Esotericism
• Shaivism: Reincarnation, Monasticism, Esotericism

I think you did a sensible job here. Three Tenets, without modding, are not much and make it quite hard to even remotely depict the religions well. But for the jains specifically it annoyed me that Sallekhana wasn´t used at all, despite it being an interesting feature of their religion, them also being unable to meditate and their very tolerant religion being not pluralist. By adding Meditation to the Pacifism you also changed a tenet, which seemed almost like a downside, into something more interesting.

Creating Suryaism and giving followers access to Sun Worship is also a neat way to let people use an otherwise practically unavailable tenet.

 

[nouser]

regarding the religions, the only changes were in the tenets or there were any other changes ?

 

[Teutonic_Thrash]

Are you planning on revising Afghanistan? Because most of Afghanistan should be (Sunni) Muslim in 1066.

 

[Trudon21]

One obscure movement that maybe could be added is Ājīvika. They were a major rival of early Buddhism and Jainism during the time of the Mauryan Empire. Their thought to have maybe survived til the 14th century CE in the southern Indian states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.
Not much is known about Ājīvikas as the original scriptures of the Ājīvika school of philosophy are lost and what is known about them is secondary sources form Jains and Buddhists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ājīvika

 

[vyshan]

The Mod is now on the Steam workshop. That took me far longer than I expected to get it up there.

 

[cybrxkhan]

Looks sweet. In terms of compatibility, anything to look out for? Rather, what files does the mod touch? Might be helpful to include that in the desc just in case.

 

[Rupmalya.K]

Only thing I can say to you is thank you...thank you very very much.

 

[vyshan]

Are you planning on revising Afghanistan? Because most of Afghanistan should be (Sunni) Muslim in 1066.

Wasn't planning on it exactly, but Afghanistan is possible to do. That would probably be as far west as I would go for this mod though.

Looks sweet. In terms of compatibility, anything to look out for? Rather, what files does the mod touch? Might be helpful to include that in the desc just in case.

Sure here is the list of files with same name as vanilla atm:

• 00_council_positions
• 00_divinity_custom_loc
• 00_title_holders
• 00_government_types
• 00_core_tenet
• 02_doctrine_special
• 00_buddhism
• 00_hinduism
• 00_jainism
• 00_animal_effects
• 00_councilor_triggers
• 01_clothing_triggers
• pilgrimage_events
• heresy_events
• pet_custom_l_english
• religion_buddhism_l_english
• council_l_english
• the various history files relating to india counties and characters

I am going to try and get them to their own files; especially the animal stuff. The animal stuff is there because you can get your pet elephant, similar to dogs and cats, because I thought that it wasn't fair to be in India and the surrounding regions with the elephants there and not have it as a pet(I wanted this before the game came out even)

Only thing I can say to you is thank you...thank you very very much.

You are welcome. If you got suggestions or ideas, or feedback of any kind feel free to let me know

 

[Trudon21]

bug I'm not able to fire councilors.

 

[vyshan]

bug I'm not able to fire councilors.

Ah I found the bug and have fixed it on my end. If you or anyone else finds any other bugs, let me know and I will try to get the patch out by friday/this weekend

 

[cybrxkhan]

@vyshan Thanks for the heads up. Judging by a very quick cursory look at the animal effects it seems like something that might be possible to isolate in a separate file to ensure better compatibility.