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Jainism's Special Gift to Mankind
(His holiness Rev. Acharya Shri Vijay Bhuvanabhanu Sùrìshwaraji Mahārāja (who was then called Rev. Shri Bhanuvijayji Gānivarya) was proceeding to Calcutta from Jaipur,when.on his way, he was invited to give a lecture in the specious Lecture Hall of the Banaras Sanskrit University. This request was made to him on the 15th February 1970 by no less a person than the Vice-Chancellor of the Varanasi Sanskrit University. It was here, in the course of his lecture, that HH Acharya Shri Bhuvanabhānusùrìshwaraji spoke about the gifts given to mankind by Jainism. It may be mentioned here that this lecture was attended by the then Vice-Chancellor of the above University as also by Pandit Badrinathji Shukla, Nyāya Vedantācharya, M.A., the then Director of the Research Section, along with several scholars and Budhdhist monks and others. In short, the meeting was well-attended. The research director Pandit B.N. Shukla said, while introducing the speaker, that the Rev. Achārya had attempted a deep study in the field of Navyanyāya, ancient Indian logic as well as Indian Philosophies and he was a well known philosopher and thinker himself. The monk had also studied the various phlosophies of the west and tried to synthesize the knowledge of philosophy from a scientfic point of view. The Rev. monk would tell the gathering as to what special gift the Jain Religion has given to the world over and above what the other philosophies have given. It was interesting to mention that about 25 to 30
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