Glossary of Jaina Terms

SR No.: 011006
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: N L Jain
Publisher: Jain International Ahmedabad
Publication Year: 1995
Total Pages: 157
Language: English
Classification: Dictionary
File Size: 4 MB

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PREFACE The Jain Intenational has great pleasure in offering this publication entitled "Glossary of Jaina Terms" to the world of scholars, students and the public. Its earlier publications especially 'Religion and philosophy of the Jainas' by Shri Virchand Raghavji Gandhi during the year of Second World Parliament of Religions (1993) presenting his historical lectures and commemorating his brilliant appearance at the first conference in 1893 was well recieved by all sections of the readers. This has encouraged this new endeavour.
The Jain International (JAIN) was established in 1989 as a public charitable trust in India after the Toronto (Canada) Convention of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA). It has manifold objectives to serve and promote Jainism on International level. Almost all eminent Jaina Scholars and organizations are associated with the JAIN in fulfilling its objectives.
The JAIN serves Jainism and Jainologists through providing. procuring and / or publishing Jaina literature in English. It has a special objective to prepare material for the young people. It provides and sends scholars abroad for lectures and other socio-academic purposes. It also encourages researches in different aspects of comparative Jainology.
JAIN'S first poject was to help Jaina Study Center of North Carolina, U.S.A. This involved reprinting of five Jain Primary Canons (Agamas) in Gujarati. It has also reprinted Pt. Sukhlaji's classic book 'Jain Dharma no Pran'. It has been the main source for framing a Jaina Studies Syllabus for schools in Kenya. It has been the main agency (1990) to arrange a panel on Jainology at the ICANAS Conference in Toronto - the first during its history of one hundred years. It has partially supported Jain scholars to attend and present papers at the conferences. The JAIN has been the primary instrument in establishing the International Centre for Jaina Studies at Gujarat Vidyapith, Ahmedabad-now a deemed University which runs not only normal and correspondence courses at post-graduate level but it also encourages research too.