Service of Jainism to India

Author(s): J S Shah, U H Jain
Publisher: J S Shah, U H Jain

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Lire FORCI The World of Jainism
By Michael Tobias
Chapter One
Ethical Realism:
Jainism is a momentous example to all of
us that there can, and does exist a successful,
ecologically responsible way of life which is
abundantly non-violent in thought, action and
deed. We might misread our history, go forward
confusedly lo perpetrato other fol11es, but we
will do so knowing that there is a viablo
alternative.
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Chapter Two
First Encounters:
Jainism was the only large-scale force in
Indian society that never accepted the cast e syster
and that provided equal status and equal rights to
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