Jainism in a Global Perspective - Collection of Jain papers of 1993 Parliament of World Religions, Chicago

SR No.: 014010
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Sagarmal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey
Publisher: Parshwanath Vidyapith
Publication Year: 1998
Total Pages: 402
Language: English
Classification: Seminar & Articles
File Size: 23 MB

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Western Perceptions of Jainism : Misconceptions, Achievements and Current Expectations
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The sketch is culled from Bhagu F. Karbhari's Speeches and Writings of Virchand R. Gandhi. Bombay: N.M. Tripathi, 1911. See Muni Atmārāmji : The Chicago-prashnottara. Agra : Pustak Pracharah Mandal, 1918 (Hindi first edition 1905). For instance Herbert Warren who was Honorary Secretary of the Jaina Literature Society published Jainism in western garb as a solution to lite's great problems. London, 1912. It has a commendation from Dr. Herman Jacobi. It is most easily accessible in a reissue by Muni Chitrabanu, Bombay, 1966. Mr. Warren's book has been used as a basic source by the present writer since it is, as its sub-title says, "chiefly from the notes and talks of Mr. V.R. Gandhi." The story of this Jaina outreach in both North America and Britain has not received the kind of research and publication as that given to the follow-up of the work for example of Swami Vivekananda, but it is to be hoped this omission will be rectified before too long. The material probably goes back through for instance Plutarch and Strabo and others to Megasthenes lost book (E.A. Schwanbeck's very reliable reconstruction Megastheni Indica (Bonn 1846, Amsterdam, 1966) assembles scattered fragments in works accessible to most western scholars in the eighteenth century. Most of them were translated into English by J.W. McCrindle in five volumes published from 1877 to 1901 and reproduced by R.C. Majumdar The Classical Accounts of India, Calcutta : Firma K.L. Mukhopadhyay, 1960. Asiatic Researches volume 9, 1807, pages 287-322, and other articles. Republished in the three volume collected works by his son, T.E. Colebrooke in the 1870's. By the 1840s books like Rev.). Stevenson's translations of The Kalpa-sūtra and Nava Tattva and the beautiful publications of the American Mission Press at Bombay were reaching the west and dispelling some of the misunderstandings. Jaina Sūtras Part I: The Ācārārga- and Kalpa-sūtras and Part II The Uttarādhyayana and Sūtrakstānga-sūtra. Oxford: Clarendon Press. Reissued by Motilal Banarsidass for UNESCO at Delhi, 1964. The series got into every self-respecting library of College or City in the English-speaking world. Professor Padmanabh S. Jaini's The Jaina Path of Purification.
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