Ahimsa Times 2008 05 SrNo 95

SR No.: 523595
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Ahimsa Times
Publisher: Ahimsa Times
Publication Year: 2008
Total Pages: 14
Language: English
Classification: Magazine, India_Ahimsa Times, & India
File Size: 362 KB

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AHIMSA TIMES - MAY 2008 ISSUE - www.jainsamaj.org
accomplished Bharat Natyam artist Divya Jain. [Courtesy: Naresh Jain, Interfaith Co-Chair, Federation of Jain Associations in North America (JAINA)]. News item received with thanks from Dr. Sulekh Jain.
XOXO WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY RETHINKING PHILOSOPHY TODAY
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XXII WORLD CONGRESS OF PHILOSOPHY July 30-August 5, 2008 RETHINKING PHILOSOPHY TODAY' - July 30
Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
to August 5, 2008 The International Federation of Philosophical Societies in collaboration with Korean Philosophical Association warmly invites participants to the congress. This is the first time in history that the World Congress of Philosophy will take place in Asia - a
fact that can be regarded as one of the consequences of globalization, a phenomenon that is not only financial but also cultural. The previous World Congress of Philosophy, in 2003, took place in Istanbul, on the border between Europe and Asia. Now we are taking the next step and organizing the World Congress in the heart of Asia, in Korea, between Japan on the one side and China and Russia on the other. This should result in a much larger attendance of philosophers from Asia than ever before at a World Congress of Philosophy, and thus enable us to rethink philosophy today in a truly global context. Courtesy: www.herenow4u.de
INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL FOR JAIN ACADEMIC STUDIES 2008 Class (consisting of about 36 scholars from 4 countries and about 16 universities) of International Summer School for Jain Academic Studies will be arriving in India by the end of this month. During the last three years, ISSJS has prepared a set of 66 lecture notes on many subjects of Jainism (philosophy, history, culture etc). These lecture notes were prepared for ISSJS by highly qualified Jain scholars in India and before publishing were reviewed by a team of experts. All these notes are available at www.jainstudies.org/study-notes-all.php. Courtesy: Sulekh C. Jain, ISJS, Houston, Texas, USA.
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JAIN DELEGATION PRESENTS POPE A JAIN SYMBOL
Washington: The Catholic community here was euphoric when Pope Benedict XVI came visiting US for the first time in the third week of April. Sharing their excitement was a 21-year-old Gujarati lad, Aditya Vora. Aditya was among the privileged five selected from around the world from Jewish, Islamic, Buddhist, Hindu and Jain religions. He had the honour of greeting the Pope and gifting him a Jain 'peace cube'. The cube had, engraved on its sides, tenets of ahimsa, aparigraha (nonpossessiveness), anekantvada (multiple viewpoints of reality) and the image of Mahatma Gandhi, who exemplified these principles. "It was a phenomenal opportunity
for me," says Aditya, about his two minutes with the Pope, during which he explained to him what the inscriptions on the cube stood for. The meeting was meant to embody the Pope's belief that religions must unite to achieve peace. Of the 150 representatives of different religions, a group of 10 Jains led by Arvind Vora, father of Aditya and chairman of Federation of Jain Associations in North America's Inter-faith Committee, was invited to this intimate gathering held at Pope John Paul II Cultural Center, Washington DC, on April 17,
A science major at Haverford College, Pennsylvania, Aditya was selected because of his involvement in inter-faith activities. He's been active from high school in the Long Island Multi-Faith Forum, conducted dialogues with Holocaust survivors in New York-New Jersey-Connecticut region and organized antiprejudice, multicultural training programmes at Long Island, New York. Says Vora senior, "It was a great
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