Jaina Meditation Citta Samadhi Jaina Yoga

Author(s): Nathmal Tatia
Publisher: Jain Vishva Bharati

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PUBLISHER'S NOTE Anekanta Sodba Pitha, the Research Division of Jain Vishva Bharati, has been publishing critically edited texts of the Jaina canon and their English translation and also comparative studies in Jainism in the form of monographs. It has already published scholarly works like Aspects of Jaina Monasticism, Ayaro, New Dimensions in Jaina Logic and Illuminator of Jaina Tenets. The present volume, Jaina MeditationCitta-Samadhi : Jaina-Yoga, is another work in the same series, which embodies some duly edited basic Prakrit and Sanskrit texts on the Jaina doctrine of meditation and critical and comparative studies written in Hindi and English on the same subject by Dr. Nathmal Tatia, Director, Anekanta Sodha Pitha. Meditation is now a current topic among the intelligentsia all over the world. It occupies an important position in the Buddhist world, and Zen meditation, prevalent in Japan, has attracted the attention of the elite. Jainism also has a rich heritage of the science of meditation. The canonical literature of the Jainas and also the medieval scholarly treatises composed by Jaina thinkers give an elaborate treatment to the topic in its different aspects. The Jaina savants had always kept their mind open, and did not hesitate to accept anything that was beneficial to the development of knowledge in the field of humanities and sciences. The Jain Vishva Bharati has published a good number of books on meditation, which have drawn the attention of all classes of people in the country and abroad. In our Research Journal. Tulasi-Pratna. two volumes (VII, No. 1-2, and VIII, No. 1-3) were specially devoted to Jaina Yoga. They contain articles by eminent scholars working in the field of Jainism. Valuable material on Jaina psychology, ethics and metaphysics is also published in the Journal, throwing light on the importance of meditation and yoga in Jaina philosophy. A dictionary of the technical terms of yoga, in the Prakrit and Sanskrit languages, spread over the treatises composed by the Jaina authors is under preparation. An encyclopaedia of Jaina Yoga is a vital necessity which can be fulfilled only by a joint effort of scholars devoted to Jaina learning at different research centres all over the world. The Jain Vishva Bharati