Book Title: Jainism Eternal and Universal Path for Enlightenment
Author(s): Narendra Bhandari
Publisher: Research Institute of Scientific Secrets from Indian Oriental Scriptures Ahmedabad
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________________ Jainism : The Eternal and Universal path for Enlightenment 131 131 About the author Dr. Narendra Bhandari is a planetary scientist. He obtained his Ph.D. in physics, while carrying out research at the Tata institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai..He worked at the Universty of California, San Diego, USA. and as Senior Professor at Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad. His research includes study of cosmic ray interractions with earth, Moon and meteorites.His main scientific contributions are related to application of natural and artificial radioactivity in understanding terrestrial reservoirs like atmosphere and glaciers as well as large impacts on the earth. He worked on moon samples brought by American Apollo missions and USSR Luna missions and on India's first mission to Moon, where he was responsible for defining the scientific objectives and instruments on Chandrayaan-1.For his outsatnding contributions he was awarded Certificate of Special Recognition by NASA,USA, National Mineral award of Government of India and Vikram Sarabhai award for Planetary and Space Sciences.He is a Fellow of the Indian National Science Academy, Indian Academy of Sciences,National Academy of Sciences and Gujarat Science Academy.He has published and edited many books. Notable amongst them is The mysterious Moon and India's Chandrayaan mission which has been published in English, Gujarati and Hindi. He is much interestedin Jain and Buddhist philosophy and he has published several papers. The present book gives a new insight in to Jain path of enlightenemnt.
