World Jain Conference 1995 6th Conference

Author(s): Satish Jain
Publisher: Ahimsa International

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society sent its own publications as well as suitable books from India to its friends in U.S.A. so it would ciruclate here soon after publication. The title page also states that the contents is 'chiefly from the notes of talks and lectures by Virchand Gandhi, B.A., M.R.A.S., Barrister-at-Law. The original has commendary words from Herman Jacobi among others at the beginning. It was reissued with an introduction by Muni Chitrabhanu at Bombay in 1966. Satish Kumar Jain, "Progressive Jains of India," Delhi 1975. Ibid. Ibid. New York, 1951. It brought mythology back to a central place in the US popular imagination. See the book of the same title published by Motilal Banarsidas, Delhi. Anyone wishing to do a fascinating piece of Library research through the magnificient American small town library system, may look at Encyclopedia articles on the Jains. For e.g. compare the 'classic' Britannica article of 1911 with the present one, and the Hastings Encyclopedia of Religion and Ethics article by Herman Jacobi with the (edited) Mircea Eliade: Encyclopedia of Religion. New York: McMillan anf Free Press, 1988, article by Prof. C. Caillaet. Prof. Eliade was seriously ill most of the time his Encyclopedia was being compiled. Caillaet's article is one of the best in the whole work and will remain basic and standard for some time. Published by O.E.I.L, Les deux rives collection dirigee par M.M. Davy, 12 rue du Gragon, Paris. A kind of conspectus of it dealing with the Jain feminine ascetic experience will appear in Italian, Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione, Edt. Paolina, Rome, See also 'Perpetual Pilgrimage, the doctrine and life of the Jain nuns' in Cistercian Studies (published at Kalamazoo), Nos.2&3, 1974, pp.242-254.
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Paper was presented at the JAINA Convention,