Jain Digest 1988 11 Vol 14 No 08

Author(s): Federation of JAINA
Publisher: USA Federation of JAINA

Page 11

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4 - Standardisation of the dates in observing the Parva will assist north American Jain communities to stand strong and united
It is a crime to be perpetrated by us on our children, the Jain youth of north America in the present or the future, if a near-total or partial supression and denial of Jain religious and spiritual heritage is committed. The very soul and sense of identity, pride and strength of their Jain heritage are essential basics of their well-being.
Reconsideration has its beginning when social evils occur due to environmental or circumstantial causes; values of cultural difference or the arrogant assumption of western version as the remedy and the failure to understand the fundamentals of Jain doctrines. Thank Lord Jina, the situation is not set infor the tragic dependence and alienation. It is essential to stress upon a balance of body, mind and spirit in Jaina living and life.
Understanding the new societal environment, its impact and the adjustments, the adoptions that are necessary to replant the roots of the Jain heritage in the new land demand a non-cataclysmic casuistry for the mere survival. Together, we're the ones to make this committment. Let's march together united in all, for all and for a new horizon.
Pravin Shah, President North Carolina Jain Study Center
1119 Flanders St, Carner NC 27529 THE FORUM is a new column established to raise issues and concerns of the Jain communities of north America. It seeks out issues from the individuals or the organisations and equally warrants solutions. The objective is not for controversies but for the resolutions the community at large will need to search through strength and unity. This maiden article in the Forum by Mr Pravin Shah, President of Jain Study center of North Carolina, raises the issue we are currently in and provides an amicable yet practically workable solution. We seek individuals to look at it and have an opportunity to contradictor concede in support under this THE FORUM. Send to: Editor, Jain Digest, 4665 Moccasin Trail, Mississauga, ON L4Z 2W5, Canada.
.... from page 22 Sallekhan: Vow to face death through gradual fasting and Jain rituals Samavasarana: Congregation of celestials, men and animals to hear
discourse of the Tirthankara. In art, a fortified circular
structure surmounted by quadruple of Jina Srivatsa: Auspicious sign decorated on the chest of a Tirthankara Titthiya: Pali word for Tirthankara Tirtha: A passage, a fiord of the river of life and death; a Jain Shrine Tirthankara: Jina who has forded river of life and death, doctrinaire of
of the Agamas Tirthapada: A Jina; one whose feet are sacred Tritirthi: A panel with figures of three Jinas Tunk: A fortified enclosing wall containing Jain Shrines Upaguhana: One who protects a fellow Jain Upsarga: Life scenes of a Tirthankara before the attainment of Moksha Urna: A small circular protuberance on the forehead of Jina Uvajjhaya; Prakrit word for Upadhyaya Vidhyadhara: An angelic being, human in form and without wings
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