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was a part of the six weeks residential program for Jaina studies offered by ISJS as ISSJS2010. These participants included three professors with serious interest to pursue Jaina studies.
At the end of their research they presented a research paper on a topic related to Jaina Studies. The present issue of Śramaņa has five full papers by the attending scholars while summaries of the remaining papers are given. The papers whose summaries are given are available with us and can be sent to those interested separately. We are also trying to get these unpublished papers published either in Šramaņa or other leading Jaina journals in India in the near future as well. The limited selection of full papers for publication has no reflection as to the quality of research but simply to observe constraints of the size of the journal. The topics covered were very diverse, depending upon the academic background of the participant as well as his area of interest in Jaina studies. Just to give an example, one participant after writing the paper has made it as a topic for her Ph.D. dissertation. Another candidate had made this research as a major area of his academic activities and doing comparative studies with Buddhism. In this issue of Śramana, dedicated to promote emerging western scholars in Jaina academic studies has seven full papers prepared by the attending scholars, for the remaining papers, we are presenting only the summary of each paper. A word of caution is necessary. The views expressed in the papers are those of the authors only and are based on their limited exposure to Jaina philosophy during ISSJS2010 and research undertaken by them as a part of the same. ISJS and śramana have not edited them and hence are not responsible for the views and analysis presented therein. We invite comments from you, the readers about these papers and Śramana in general. Your interactions will help us in making Śramana to meet your standards of academic requirement. As you might have noticed, we have enlarged our editorial board and the academic board by inducting several renowned Indian and International scholars of Jainism. We are also planning to put
| SR No. | 525075 |
| Book Title | Sramana 2011 01 |
| Original Sutra Author | N/A |
| Author | Sundarshanlal Jain, Shreeprakash Pandey |
| Publisher | Parshvanath Vidhyashram Varanasi |
| Publication Year | 2011 |
| Total Pages | 172 |
| Language | Hindi |
| Classification | Magazine, India_Sramana, & India |
| File Size | 15 MB |