Jinamanjari 1998 04 No 17

Author(s): Jinamanjari
Publisher: Canada Bramhi Jain Society Publication

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Jinamanjari, volume 17, No. 1, April 1998
SOCIETY FOR JAINA STUDIES, JAPAN
Profs. Unebe Tshiya and Fujinaga Sin, Japan.
Society for Jaina Studies was founded in 1986 by Dr.. Atsushi Uno, Professor Emeritus, Hiroshima University, Prof. Hojun Nagasaki of Otani University, Kyoto and others. It is the only academic society devoted to the study of Jainism in Japan. Its principle mission lies in Jaina studies. The Society thus fosteres exchange of views and information and camaraderie among Japanese scholars who have expertise and interest in the study of Jain religion.
The Society for Jaina Studies when launched in 1986, it had only eleven members, and now it boasts of about ninety members, who are not only academic scholars but also graduate students and individuals with interest in any field of Jaina studies. Prof. Uno was not only one of the principal founders of the Society but also served as its first chairperson, and its secretariat is established at the office of Prof. Nagasaki at Otani University, Kyoto.
The Society has an annual academic conference at Otani University, and is usually held at the end of September. In the annual conference, members or invited guest(s) present their research papers related to Jainism: topics may encompass philosophical, philological, literary study, and ethnological research and field work. The Society for Jaina Studies, therefore, occupies a unique position in Japanese Indological academic circles, as it is being limited only to the field of Jainism and related subjects.
Up until 1994, the Society published annual newspaper distributed among scholars as a means of information exchange. However, beginning 1995 which marked the 10th Annual Conference, the newspaper has become the Journal of Jaina Studies. Most of the articles in the journal are written in Japanese with a summary in English,
The most recent volume II, published in September 1997, has the following contents:
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