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04 GLOBAL NEWS
New Jain Temple in Harrow, UK
A Vegan Diet Can Help Prevent Breast Cancer
Plans for the proposed temple to be built in Harrow Weald, North-West of London, have been agreed by Harrow Council's development committee. The land for the project has been acquired by the Mahavir Foundation. The temple is expected to accommodate thirty worshippers and
work on site is expected to begin in two months' time and be ready by 2006. For more information visit www.mahavirfoundation.com or write to the Mahavir Foundation, 11 Lindsay Drive, Kenton, Middlesex HA3 OTA. Or telephone: +44 (0)20 8206 1659.
According to recent medical research, a vegan diet can play a large role in reducing the risk of breast cancer. A study of more than 600,000 women published in the British Journal of Cancer found that women who ate large amounts of meat were 17% more likely to develop breast cancer than those who ate little or none.
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Ahimsa Center Holds Inaugural Conference
On 14-15 May 2004, the Ahimsa Center at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, will hold its Inaugural Conference. The theme will be: Creating a Culture of Ahimsa: Visions and Strategies'. Founded in 2003 by Professor Tara Sethia, the Center aims to bring together academics, policy makers and professionals from a wide range of disciplines to apply the principles of ahimsa to a modern, pluralist society. The Conference is therefore multidisciplinary and balanced between theory and practice. Academic speakers include scholars of Jainism such as
Padmanabh S. Jaini, Professor Emeritus of Jain and Buddhist Studies, University of California at Berkeley, and Christopher Key Chapple, Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Other speakers will include Shabbir Mansuri, Founding Director of the Council on Islamic Education, Fountain Valley, California and Kiran Bedi, Civilian Police Advisor to the United Nations Department of Peacemaking, New York. The Conference will discuss ways to build communities of ahimsaks [for whom) individual as well as social transformation is critical to the creation of a culture of ahimsa. For more information, please contact Professor Tara Sethia: tsethia@csupomona.edu
Exhibition of Indian Art Held at University of Michigan, Museum of Art
Annual Jain Lecture at
Toronto University Prof. Lawrence A. Babb of Amherst College, Massachusetts, USA gave the annual Roop Lal Jain Lecture on Jainism and Social Identity', organised by the Centre for South Asian Studies, University of Toronto. He explored the beliefs and practices of five distinct groups -Dahima Brahmins, Agnikul Rajputs, Mahesvaris, Khandelval Jains and Oshwals of Rajasthan. He also looked at the genealogies of these groups and the social and religious background to the emergence of a distinctive Jain identity, such as the abandonment by Jains of animal sacrifice, which Jains regard as violent and a form of himsa.
Divine Encounters, Earthly Pleasures: Twenty Centuries of Indian Art was exhibited at the University of Michigan Museum of Art (UMMA) at Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. Over 80 works of sculpture and paintings, ranging from the first to the twentieth centuries were on display including Jain arts. The exhibition reflects the broad
regional diversity of the vast Indian subcontinent. This was the first exhibition of Indian art held at UMMA in more than twenty years. Many of the artworks were drawn almost entirely from the Museum's collection and most of the objects were on display for the first time. For more details visit UMMA's website: www.umma.umich.edu
Music Director Ravindra Jain Plans Music Academy
Renowned Bollywood musician, lyricist and singer Ravindra Jain, 60, has announced his plans to start a music academy at Bhopal and New Delhi. The academy will provide preferential treatment and special concessions for visually impaired and underprivileged people. It is expected that the New Delhi government will support the scheme. Ravindra Jains's film work includes Chor Machaye Shor, Geet Gaata Chal, Ankhiyon Ke Jharokon Se, Chitchor. Fakira, Ram Teri Ganga Maili and Henna.
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