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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In an article published in the Bostor periodical Arena, IX, 1895, pages 157-166.
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11. Oxford University Press, London, 1915, reissued New Delhi by Munshiram Manoharlal in 1984.
In fairness to Christianity as a whole it must be pointed out that the fundamentalists approach as we know it in this century is something modern and is not typical of the Christian approach to other religions. In Dr. (Mrs.) Stevenson's day and time in her kind of circles, despite their best efforts, it included the idea that things western came as the zenith of an evolutionary process.
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Jainism in a Global Perspective
Berkeley: University of California Press and Delhi: Motilal Banarasidass 1979 is a brilliant book not only regarding every aspect of Jainism but exemplary as a paradigm of the genre. He has studied and taught in India, Sri Lanka, Britain and North America, as well as elsewhere.
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She signs herself N. Shanta. The subtitle is "Histoire, spiritualite, vie des ascetes pelerines de l'Inde. "It was published by a distinguished but small publisher, O.E.I.L. in Paris in 1985. It grasps firmly that we westerners read Indic ideas through Hindu Sanskritized eyes so it carefully explains the subtlety of and nuances of Jaina use of the same words. It so brilliantly conveys the meaning in French it is very difficult to transpose into English. Professor Padmanabh Jaini's Gender and Salvation. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991, provides most valuable background in the ancient Jaina debates on woman's spirituality.
Michael Tobias: Life Force, the World of Jainism. Berkeley: Asian Humanities Press, 1991. The film he made, Ahimsā, is a companion to the book. He is following up with more writing and film work. The Jaina declaration On Nature by Dr. Laxmi Mall Singhvi, published by the Federation of Jaina Associations in North America, Cincinnati, 1990.
Useful information on the growth and organization of the Jaina diaspora will be found in Michael Carrithers and Caroline Humphrey: The Assembly of Listeners. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991 and Marcus Banks: Organizing Jainism in India and