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Jain Education International
The Author
Birth
Initiation & Ordination
Accession to Acaryaship
Launching the Anuvrata Movement
Honoured with the status of Yugapradhana
Honoured by Bharatjyoti Award
Honoured with Degree of D.Lit.
: 1915
: 1926
: 1936
: 1949
: 1971
: 1986
: 1993
Honoured with Indira Gandhi Award for National Integration : 1993 Honoured with Ganadhipati
: 1993
Acharya Shri Tulsi is a prolific writer. He has more than 100 books to his credit. Jaina Siddhanta Dipika, BhiksuNyaya Karnika, and Mano'nusasanamare his epoch-making works in Sanskrit elucidating Jain Philosophy. Jain Logic and Jain System of Yoga, respectively.
His greatest contribution to literature is his Agama-vacanãi.e. critical editions of the Jain canonical texts with elaborate commentaries, Sanskrit and Hindi renderings, and their annotations in the modern context. They are published by the Jain Vishva Bharati.
The present work, Bhagavan Mahavira, is not merely a biography but an essay on Truth, becasue Bhagavan Mahavira was the embodiment of Truth rather than a historical hero. It was he who propounded anekantaväda which is capable of synthesising the diverse currents of thought in the world. We will not be able to appreciate him correctly as a great prophet of ahimsa and anekantavada until we tried to practise the two ideals in our own lives.
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