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JAINA appoints 1993 awards committee
Jain Digest thy of recognition.
Please send your award nominations to: Dr. Jagat P. Jain, 66 Viscount Rd., Williamsville, NY 14221, (716) 688-0104.
Our thanks to Dr. Mahendra and Mrs. Shobhana Patel of Amarillo, Texas for their generous contribution to JAINA Education Committee on the occasion of the marriage of their daughter Shilpa to Rakesh R. Shah.
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Way of Life: Engineering and Social Responsibility" at Michigan Technology University in Fall of 1992.
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Another great loss
The Executive Committee of JAINA appointed the 1993 JAINA Award and Recognition Committee at its meeting in Atlanta held on May 910, 1992. The following members of the community were requested to be on the committee: Dr. Jagat Jain, (Chairperson), Buffalo, NY; Dr. Manilal Mehta, Los Angeles, CA, Dr. Mahendra Pandya, Staten Island, NY; Dr. Narendra Shah, Athens, GA; Mrs. Bhadra Kothari, Toronto, Canada.
The committee's charge is to recognize individuals (adults and youths) and Jain Centers for their leadership and contribution in the promotion of the Jain religion in North America.
The nominee must be a resident of the United States or Canada and follow Jain principles in practice and belief. Recognition criteria may include contributions in the area of Jainism through lecture and community service.
The deadline for the nomination is December 31, 1992. The awardees will be recognized at the 7th JAINA Convention in Pittsburgh, July 2-4, 1993.
Nominations may be made by an individual or a local community and must contain sufficient details regarding the individual/institution/ organization being considered wor
The Fourth International Congress of Vedanta was held at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio and was attended by hundreds of scholars from the U.S.A., Canada, India and many other countries. Dr. Karan Singh, former Cabinet Minister in India and India's Ambassador to the United States, attended the entire congress.
On April 4, 1992 in a seminar on Ahimsa and Interfaith Dialogue, several papers on Ahimsa were read. Dr. David Brookman of Portage Lake United Ministries in Higher Education in Houghton, Michigan, in his paper entitled "Beyond Anthropocentrism: The Integral Intention of Ahimsa," described in detail Jainism's view of Ahimsa. While dealing with many aspects of Ahimsa and other philosophies of Jainism, Dr. Brookman said, "In fact, its empirical classification of things in the universe aligns Jainism more closely with science than with the monist metaphysics of Advaita Vedanta."
Dr. Sulekh C. Jain of JAINA also attended this seminar and met with other scholars. Because of this interaction, Dr. Brookman has invited Dr. Sulekh Jain to give a talk on "Jain
We have just heard that Upadhayay Kavi Amar Muni Ji, a Rashtriya Sant (National Saint), author of many books, a great orator, thinker and founder of Veerayatan in Rajgiri (Bihar) left this world at the age of 88 on June 1, · 1992. JAINA and the Jain community are greatly saddened by the loss. The next issue of the Jain Digest will carry more de tails about the life of this great saint
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