Jain Spirit 2004 06 No 19

Author(s): Jain Spirit UK
Publisher: UK Young Jains

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The Infinity Foundation is a non-profit organisation, based in Princeton, New Jersey, where its presence is testimony to the growing economic and cultural influence of Indians in the United States.
As its name suggests, the Foundation's aims are ambitious. It is best described as part-charity and part-think tank, because it makes grants to organisations and individuals in the areas of compassion and wisdom. In the compassionate area, it has funded organisations working for grassroots health care, including the American Red Cross, and for the care of people with HIV/AIDS in India and the USA. In the area of wisdom, it seeks to promote East-West dialogue and a creative synthesis of Eastern and Western values. According to its website, the Infinity Foundation believes that the experience and wisdom of the Indian civilization can play a positive role in an inter-civilizational dialogue based on harmonious coexistence rather than a clash of civilizations."
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canonical literature. One doesn't need to know much or indeed anything about India, Hinduism or Jainism to enjoy the site and learn from it. For www.infinityfoundation.com is skilfully tailored to the needs of individuals, be they experts and scholars, businesspeople, students, spiritual seekers - or simply those who are drawn to the organisation's name. Infinity Foundation - IF: I assume that the initials are deliberate, but we are not told this explicitly.
The Foundation publishes papers on a wide variety of Indian-related topics-from spiritual philosophy to economics, architecture to physics, religious art to secular literature. Most of these are available on-line and several book projects are planned. The Foundation is non-political and 'does not locate itself in either the Left or the Right' but 'seeks to foster new paradigms' without such constraint. This approach is very much in keeping with Jain 'many-sidedness'. The founder and president is Rajiv Malhotra, an Indian-American philanthropist and community leader who devised an Asian Studies programme in New Jersey schools, is on the advisory board for the State's chapter of the American Red Cross and has volunteered as an AIDS counsellor.
One of the most striking features of the site is the 'Mandala of Indic Traditions'. There are four points, representing two pairs of opposites: Inner and Outer, Past and Present. Visitors can enter by one gate and travel around the mandala to encounter and learn the perspectives of other gates. WELCOME
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