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Their Prominent Features in India and Abroad : 251 others. They show the great vitality of Jainism on a literary level in and outside India.
5) On art and architecture
We have previously mentioned, after numerous Jain sanctuaries in India, those built more recently throughout the world, mostly in the USA. These modern temples have been built with as much talent and artistic research than in India, even recently in England with white sandstone coming directly form there.
We have also cited the wonderful exhibitions on Jain art held in the USA and UK that had a great success. We should also mention museums that outside India possess Jain specific pieces of art, like: the British Museum in London, the museum of Zurich in Switzerland, museums in Berlin (Germany), New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, Cleveland, Kansas City, Los Angeles and San Francisco (USA).
In France, in the “Musée des Arts Asiatiques” (Asian Arts Museum) in Paris also called "Musée Guimet” after the name of its founder, one can admire two nice statues of Rşabha dating from the xth-Xih centuries. There is also a departmental “Asian Arts Museum" in Nice in South of France, that has no works showing Jain art till now, but we hope it will be someday possible.
As one can see, Jain influence spreads progressively outside India in countries where devotees of that old Indian faith have been welcomed and are now well integrated. This situation can only be extremely positive as it increases the spread of the Jain message of non-violence, tolerance, brotherhood and peace.
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