Padmanabh Jaini at Symposium 2013

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

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COLLECTED PAPERS ON JAINA STUDIES
Contents
Foreword by Paul Dundas Preface
publication.
The first paper of each volume ("Ahimsa: A Jaina Way of Spiritual Life" and "States of Happiness in Buddhist Heterodoxy) is presented as an introduction to the Jaina and Buddhist faiths, respectively, These are followed by articles on the state of Jaina Studies and Buddhist Studies at the time of their publication, 1976 for Jainism and 1956 for Buddhism. In the case of the Jaina volume, two rather lengthy Introductions reproduced from two of my earlier books (3 and 9) provide a detailed study of the doctrine of the bondage of the soul and the debate over salvation of women. Seven papers in the volume on Buddhist Studies are primarily based on Buddhist material but include also a number of Jaina sources. They demonstrate the interdependent nature of these two traditions and stress the need for exploring them together. Their titles are as follows: Sramanas: Their Conflict with Brāhmanical Society (1970); On the Sarvajñatua (Omniscience) of Mahävira and the Buddha (1974); The Jina as a Tathagata: Amrtacandra's Critique of Buddhist Doctrinc (1976); Samskära-duhkhata and the Jaina Concept of Suffering (1977): The Disappearance of Buddhism and the Survival of Jainism in India: A Study in Contrast (1980): Values in Comparative Perspective: Svadharma versus Ahimsä (1987); and On the Ignorance of the Arhat (1992).
I am deeply indebted to the original publishers of these papers for permission to reproduce them here. Special thanks are due to Kristi Wiley, a doctoral student in our programme, for efficiently organizing the material and preparing the copy for the Press. I also would like to commend Mr. N. P. Jain for his enthusiasm in publishing these volumes and thus promoting the study of Jainism and Buddhism.
SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO JAINA FAITH 1. Ahimsa: A Jaina Way of Spiritual Discipline
SECTION II
JAINA STUDIES 2. The Jainas and the Western Scholar
SECTION III SOME ASPECTS OF REALITY IN JAINA DOCTRINE 3. Amrtacandra Suri's Exposition on Reality 4. Svatantravacanāmpta of Kanakasena
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SECTION IV SOME ASPECTS OF KARMA THEORY
University of California, Berkeley
5. Bhavyatva and Abhavatva: A Jaina Doctrine of
Predestination 6. Tirthankara-Prakrti and the Bodhisattva Path
111 7. Karma and the Problem of Rebirth in Jainism
121 8. Muktivicăra of Bhāvasena: Text and Translation 147 9. Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women 163 10. (Kevali Bhuktivicăra of Bhavasena: Text and Translation 199