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Committee News
Jaina Education Committee Activity Report - December 2008
BOOK OF THE YEAR
Jainism 1 - Basics of Jainism (JES 102) - Cost $5.00 This book is compiled by our youth Päthashälä teacher Parinda Shah of Chicago. The book focuses on nonviolence, vegetarianism, and universal virtues such as kindness and honesty. This way by exposing young children to Jain virtues at an early age, we are well on the path keeping Jainism alive in the Western world. The book consists of 28 lessons and also includes more than 150 color photos. We have sold more than 1500 copies this year.
communities of North America, India, and other parts of the world. The committee has launched this project two years ago. During the first phase of the project we had published two DVDs consisting more than 600 books scanned by Digambar Acharya Shri Suvidhi Sägarji's trust. We extended the project with the full cooperation and support from Shri Mahavir Jain Aradhana Kendra Kobä Ahmedabad (P.P Muni Shri Ajay Sagarji M.S.) and Dr. Sagarmal Jain of Sajapur (near Indore) MP. We have enhanced the scanning specification from 72 dpi to 300 dpi and put in place a proper quality control procedure. With the improved specification we have scanned more than 1000 books. Following is the summary of completed scanning work.
Book Type English Books
Number of Books Scan Quality 207
High Quality Scan - (52,256 pages) 300 dpi 406
High Quality Scan - (162,085 pages) 300 dpi
Devanägari Books (Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi) Gujarati Books
404 (110,790 pages) 570 (180,295 pages)
High Quality Scan - 300 dpi Good Quality Scan - 72 dpi***
English Pratikraman (JES 931) - Cost $1.00 Pratikraman means to go back, to reflect and review, to confess and atone for transgressions of mind, body, and speech in one's daily activities. It also means returning to and reaffirming the path of nonviolence, truthfulness, and non-attachment. The English Pratikraman Book includes the sutras from various Shvetämbar traditions, The meaning of each Pratikramana Sutras is explained in simple English, which covers six essentials. This way youth can perform this ritual with proper understanding and within one hour. We have sold more than 1300 books this year and additional 700 copies were distributed at the YJA convention.
Devanagari Books (Prakrit, Sanskrit, Hindi)
Jain Philosophy and Practice I (JES 302) Updates This is a level 3 book which is under revision for the new edition print. We hope to complete the book by the end of February 2009. If you have any comments or suggestions, please send us an e-mail.
Summary of Scanned Books • Jain Ägam Literature • Commentary on Ägams • Digambar Literature • Four Anuyogas
Karma Grantha Complete set of Biawar Published Ägam
Literature . Shrimad Rajchandra Literature . Punya Vijayji and Jambu Vijayji Literature
Präkrit Text Society Literature Kanji Swami - Songadh Literature Pundit Dhirajlal D. Mehta Literature
Jaina Education Päthashälä Literature • Several Memorabilia Proceedings, Dictionaries and
Manuscript Catalogs eLibrary Website www.jaine Library.org Please review the website and provide us any feedback you might have. This is going to be Jaina Education
ELIBRARY PROJECT To protect, preserve, and disseminate the ancient and contemporary Jain literature, the Education Committee of Federation of JAINA, North America, has launched a JAINA eLibrary project. Under this project the Jain literatures is converted electronically into eBooks (pdf files) and make them available via the website to the readers worldwide who are interested in Jain religion and its philosophy. The entire project is financed through contribution from the Jain
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