Padmanabh Jaini at Symposium 2013

Author(s): Padmanabh S Jaini
Publisher: Padmanabh S Jaini

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Foreword
Paul Dandas (University of Edinburgh)
Haribhadra's Lalitaststand and the Legend of Sidebarşi's
Consersion to Buddhi .... ............ Peter Flügel (School of Oriental and African Studies)
Spiritual Accounting. The Role of the Kalyanaka Patra in
the Religions Economy of the Terapanth Sumbara Jain Ascetis......... 167 Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo Kosen) On Moktan arge..................
205 W. J. Johnson (University of Wales)
The Tina Experience's A Different Approach to Jaina Image Worship...217 M. Whitney Kelting (Grinnell College)
Constructions of Femalenes in Jain Devotional Literature... ..... Janice Leoshko (University of Texas at Austin)
Inside Outl: View of Jain Art.......... Koya Sato (The Eastern Institute)
Yaforjaya on Perception: Same Aspects of Anagrada in the Process of Cognition............
269 Kim Skoog (University of Guam)
The Morality of Sallekhana: The Jaisa Prastics of Fasting to Deat.......... 293 Eva Tomow (Heidelberg)
Some Tbowpbes about the Shadow and the Evil in Jainism Excemplified by Haribhadra's Sawardiceakaba and Reflected
by Western Jungian Psybology. . . Alväppillai Vēlappillai (Uppsala University)
Jainis in Tamil Inscriptions...... .... Kristi L Wiley (University of California at Berkeley)
The Story of King Srenika: Binding and Modifications of Ayw Karm......... 337
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On June 4 1998, an international gathering of scholars of Buddhism and Jainism assembled in the charming old town of Land to take part in a conference hosted by the Department of History of Religions at Land University. For the next three days, under the genial and capable stewardship of Dr. Olle Qvamström, they delivered and discussed specialist papers on India's great renouncer religions and at the same time experienced some unforgettable Swedish hospitality.
The occasion for this was the desire of all present to honour one of the world's most distinguished experts on Buddhist and Jain studies, Padmanabh S. Jaini, until recently Professor of Buddhist Studies at the University of California at Berkeley. It was also an opportunity for many, particularly those coming from Europe and Japan, who meet this most agreeable of intellectual companions more rarely than they would wish, to salute him in person. The papers delivered over that weekend were numerous, informed and ranged widely, and each one was unfailingly enlivened by Professor Jaini's own comments and interventions Seldom, at least in this writer's experience, has there been such a rewarding conference.
Anyone wishing to trace the trajectory of Professor Jaini's academic formation and career, of a type now increasingly rare, can consult the biography I included in my foreword to his reprinted Collected Papers on Jan Studies and Collected Papers on Buddbirt Studies published by Motilal Banarsidass in 2000 and 2001 respectively. In that foreword I rather mischievously'suggested that the publication of distinguished scholars' "opuscula minora" serves a more worthwhile purpose in both academic and commemorative terms than the production of festschrifts. However, in this particular context, admitting in Jain fashion to the necessity of taking alternative perspectives into account when formulating a judgement and also emboldened by the fact that it is hardly a run-of-the-mill festschrift which contains a lengthy and important contribution from its dedicatee, I will now firmly assert that the publication of congratulatory volumes honouring the con tribution of respected senior scholars such as Professor Jaini is one of the most pleasant and indispensible of academic customs.
The papers in this festschrift address many aspects of Buddhist and Jain thought and civilisation. A variety of scholarly perspectives are employed by the contributors, some treating Buddhism and Jainism separately, others attempting, in the spirit of a great deal of Professor Jaini's work, to demonstrate linkages between the two. The historical range of these papers reaches from the very beginnings of the two renouncer religions to aspects of modern practice. Because of the large number of contributors, this festschrift has been published in two parts. Part 1 contains those essays that focus primarily on Jainism. Part 2 contains those