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JAIN DIGEST Winter 2007
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Jai. Jinendra
Guest Editor will bring about more positive changes. Over time, this function will be taken over by our youth. When we read some of the comments sent to us by our youth, we feel proud
and confident that the future of Jain Heritage in North America From The Guest Editorial Team
is in the good hands of our bright and capable youth with deep "We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge." a and well thought out Jain values. quote by Rutherford D. Roger appropriately defines the theme We would like to express our gratitude to JAINA president and of this issue of Jain Digest. Modern Education teaches us how the Executive committee for giving us this great privilege of to convert the flood of information into useful knowledge. publishing the two issues of Jain Digest. We appreciate the time Further, this knowledge becomes more effective if we can get many of you have spent during our interviews, each of you had valuable insight through it. In this issue we have discussed a story to tell and a message to give, you have inspired us to look various topics related to education and knowledge in the broad deep within, and for that we are indebted to you. We would also context of Jainism. We have included some topics that discuss like to thank all individuals who have gracefully provided us Enlightened Education and Enlightened Knowledge, both of material to publish, we regret and apologize for mistakes which allude to getting valuable insight into our inner-self. committed during editing or not including portions of the Jainism has given a lot of importance to Anupreksha or deep material due to space or other reasons. Finally, to all, including contemplation. We hope some of the topics discussed here will the dear readers of this magazine if we have offended you in any inspire you to dwell on them further and lead you to the path of respect, we sincerely say: "Michchhä Mi Dukkadam". empowerment.
With Warm Regards, We are very thankful to all of you who have emailed or given us
Chetan V. Sanghvi, Heena Nandu, Harendra Shah, Chandu in-person feedback on the last issue of Jain Digest. We have
Desai, Anu Hungund, Lina Turakhia, Viren Shah, & Mayur tried to include some of these comments in the Letters to the
Shah Editor section and have made certain changes to the format based on your feedback.
LETTERS TO THE GUEST EDITORS When we started putting together the materials for this issue in
Jai Jinendra, Congratulations to all the guest editors and to December, we were a little disappointed as we had received very little input from the community. However, most of the
JAINA for publishing an outstanding issue of Jain Digest. The information started coming in during the first two weeks of
new format is impressive and transforms the magazine into a January. Finally, we had so much information that we had to
world-class publication. Once again, thanks to the guest editors spend a great deal of time condensing the data. We would like
for their significant cfforts in getting the magazine published in
this new format. - Chandrakant Parekh, Cerritos, CA to specially acknowledge contribution of the Jain scholar Dr. Vimal Prakash Jain, we received a very detailed and interesting Chetanbhai, I have gone through the pdf file of above issue. It article on Jain Literature from him. Unfortunately, due to the is superb. timing of the arrival of this information - as we were ready to go I wonder, why MIS Registration Forms and other information to press - we could not include the full article in the
are not published along with MIS ads as usual. This is necessary hardcopy version of the Jain Digest. We have included some
for the new applicant/candidate / parents in as much as through salient portions of the information in other articles. You can
the medium of this Guide lines. I thought I should bring this to request the complete article by sending an email to
your notice. Hasmukh Shah, Chairperson: MIS jaindigest.info@gmail.com
While Guest Editors may bring in new ideas, they may miss out on This magazine is split into following seven parts, with the theme
few good old ones. It was a slip on our part. Hopefully, we have of education emphasized in practically every section:
taken care of it this time. Appreciate your support - Guest Editorial a) Education from a spiritual stand point.
Team b) Profiles of five persons in different fields who have
made an impact to the community and, in particular Wow very impressive/informative/lots of coverage/many many to education efforts.
things to mention. Excellent work. Lalit Vora, Montreal, c) A series of articles, discussions, and stories from Canada different centers related to Education
Dear Guest Editor Team, Congratulations for a very different d) Youths responding to their Jain upbringing
Jain Digest. The report about the centers in a different format is e) JAINA and International news items
good! Thank you for including the note with a picture about f) Family Corner
Shrimad Rajchandra. Just a typo in the heading of the Parliament g) Matrimonials
of World Religion! (2009 not 2004!). I think instead of printing This is the second issue being published by this Guest Editorial the full order-letter for 100 copies of the book a small note could team. It is time for us to pass the baton over to Sudhirbhai Shah, have spared 1/4 page! Reading about the Centers side ways and the next Guest Editor. While, we have attempted to bring a few even after printing hard copy is inconvenient for an old person.
new concepts and ideas to the community, Sudhirbhai, the next "This is all for the present. More after I get the hard copy. With Jain Education Intemational For Private & Personal Use Only
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