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tended the due date for nominations to April 21, 1997. In order to be considered, all nominations must be post marked no later than April 21, 1997 and mailed to: Hansa Varia, Chairperson, Award Committee, 1114 Midway Drive, Richardson, TX 75081.
Treasurer's Comments
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JAINA Ratna Award and Recognition Information
Nominations are invited for the JAINA Ratna Award and Recognition for outstanding contributions in promoting Jainism in North America. The award recipient will be honored at the 9th JAINA Convention this July 4 - 6, 1997 in Toronto, Canada. To qualify for the award or recognition, the nominee must meet the following criteria:
- reside in the U.S. or Canada. - be a householder (shravak - shravika)
or be a young Jain, 16 years old or older. - follow Jain principles in belief and practice. - contribute to the promotion of Jainism by one
or more of the following: · publishing articles.
lecturing. . teaching . performing community service
for example: fund raising, establishing a Jain Library, cditing a Jain magazine, organizing youth camps. establishing and/or serving a Jain organization(s) and/or organizing conferences locally, regionally, nationally, or internationally. participating in lectures, discussions and/or
presentations. . promoting Jain principles of caring by caring for the
needy in the community. . establishing contact between Jains in North America
and the World. - to be eligible for this award or recognition the individual
must have provided an outstanding service to the Jain
community in the U.S. or Canada. There is only one JAINA Ratna Award and few Recognition Awards. Nominations may be made on an individual or group basis. Please post this information in your center. We have ex
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9th Biennial JAINA Convention
Funds for our upcoming convention in Toronto have started to come in. JAINA would like to thank Kasturbai Shah and his family of Scarborough, Ontario, Canada for the very generous donation of $25,000.
This donation will help set the pace for donations to follow and certainly help to make this year's convention a tremendous success.
From the Editor's Desk, continued from page 1 communities of Jains have come together to build Jain or Hindu-Jain temples. It appears to me that, because of the broad based support we have built, we may be in the process of democratizing the religion and committing ourselves to more respectable behavior.
However, the meager response we received to more than 7,500 envelopes that were included in the centerfold of our previous issue has been very perplexing.
In all, we received less than 50 envelopes, 11 were Life Memberships and were 30 address changes. We certainly appreciate those of you who responded in both cases.
However, the total count of 41 can hardly pay for the additional expense of including this easy to mail envelope. So we are going to try again. We know that the Jain Community can to better than that!
I hope that many, many of you will become Life Members and support the Jain Digest.
Jai Jinendra.
Harshad Shah
March 1997 Jain Education Intemational
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