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JAIN DIGEST
FALL 2002 VOL.21 NO. 3 CIRCULATION: 8500
In this issue
Headquarter News.......
Pratishtha in Detroit.
12th Jaina Convention........5 Conv registration form......10 Networking forum form....11 Paryushan no Mahima......12. Jainism in a nutshell..........13
Committee News......... 14
Regional News.... .16 People in New............... .18
Darshanachar-the code of
Right Perception.................20
Acharya Haribhadra's 8. Yogdrasti..............
Affiliate News....................24 JAINA Book Store. 23
Book review.......
Matrimonials...
MIS Registration Form.......26
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Moving? Receiving duplicate copies? Send your address corrections to:
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JAIN DIGEST CIRCULATION
Federation of JAINA
P. O. Box 700
Getzville, NY 14068-0700
Young Minds................
Young Jian Professionals......32
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Jain Education International 2010_02
PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE
Dear Dharma Bandhu
Your JAINA is working very hard to facilitate your Jain living needs. Many activities have taken place during last Quarter. Following is only some of the activities.
First of all I want to congratulate our new Grand Patron family. Namely,
Mr. And Dr. P. V. Poonai from 300 Long Ave., Port St. Joe FL.
The Pratishtha mahotsav at Boston was a great success. Also the Pratishtha mahotsav in Detroit temple for 24 tirthankars in Bhomti went well as planned.
⚫ YJA Convention 2002 was a grand success. Every participant was happy that they could attend the convention in Mahwah NJ. Soon after that the YJA members selected the new executive board. The Co-chairs are: Ronak Shah and Suchita Shah.
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They have many new activities planned around the Internet and many regional conferences. Let us applaud a great job done by previous exec. Committee led by Chintan, Birud and Ronak
• YJP has planned their Fifth annual convention on October 12-14 in Montreal, Quebec. Please contact Sanjay Shah or their website.
12th Biennial JAINA Convention is planned for July 3-6 2003 at Cincinnati. Under leadership of Anop Vora, Dr. Surendra Singhvi and Soha Shah with Convention Board and many committees, all activities are progressing at full force. Don't forget to register soon in the early bird phase starting Oct 1 2002.
FROM THE EDITOR IN CHIEF
Jai Jinendra!
Jain community in North America is humming with spiritual, religious activities.
--A very successful Pratishtha in Detroit --YJA's Convention in New Jersey --2d Pathshala Teachers' Conference --many many scholars visits and
Plans for the 12th Biennial Convention is underway. Show your support by registering early for the convention. It eliminates all the guess work out of planning and gives a big boost to all the volunteers.
We are pleased to add in this issue an article in Gujarati. We will also be pleased to publish suitable article in Hindi. Please send them to me at latachampsee@usa.net
I ask for your Kshamapana for any of my actions knowingly or unknowingly which may have hurt your feelings in any way.
Lata Champsee, Editor in Chief
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Our world Community Services projects are progressing at designed pace. "Varthaman Nagar" near Bhuj has already started construction of houses and school plans are completed. The medical assistance program has shipped many containers full of hospital supplies to designated hospitals in India.
In the same venue Veerayatan's Acharya Chandanaji's organization has set up 23 regular and vocational teaching institutes in Kutchh and Saurashtra. Some of our young adults, Shayana Parekh and Kimberly Parekh, are going there to teach vocational subjects for one or more years.
⚫ To facilitate your donations we at JAINA have established credit card acceptance services. Please contact our treasurer Girish Shah for details.
Again, I thank you very much to let us (the Executive committee) serve you. And with your support, we plan to do much more. I want to build many sadhermic Bhavans near our Jain Centers. Thank you, and Jai Jinendra.
Berit
Bipin D. Parikh, President, JAINA
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