Scripture and community: collected essays on the Jains.

Kendall W. Folkert, Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains, ed. by John E. Court (1993), is an important discussion of problems relating to the study of Jain history and scripture from a Shvetambara perspective. Hemacandra, The Lives of the Jain Elders, trans. by R.C.C. Fynes (1998), is a traditional history of the early Jain.

Publication information Title Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains Author Kendall W. Folkert Editor John E. Cort Journal or book or series.

Syllabus for the Course of M.Phil. in Comparative Religion Revised with 2008-2009 academic session This is a 2 years course with the following scheme: M.Phil. Previous: 4 papers of 100 marks each (25 marks of internal assessment and 75 marks of Annual Examination) Paper I- Indian Religions (Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism).

Bibliography on Jainism and Other Faiths. Contributed by Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University. Chapple, C.K. 1993 'Nonviolent Approaches to Multiplicity' in Chapple, Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions, Albany: SUNY Press.

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Kendall W. Folkert, Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains, ed. by John E. Court (1993), is an important discussion of problems relating to the study of Jain history and scripture from a Shvetambara perspective.

Intended for students of Indian religions as well as for the world-wide Jain community, this book provides basic knowledge about Mahavira, the early transmission of Jain wisdom, the two main sects of Digambara and Shvetambara, scripture, doctrine, and Jain history through the late medieval period.

This article offers a critical description of five books, Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains; Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women; Non-Violence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions; The Clever Adulteress and Other Stories: A Treasury of Jain Literature; Avasyaka-Studien.

More editions of Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains (STUDIES IN WORLD RELIGIONS): Scripture and Community: Collected Essays on the Jains (STUDIES IN WORLD RELIGIONS): ISBN 9781555408589 (978-1-55540-858-9) Softcover, Scholars Pr, 1993.

The Jain community and tradition can be seen as a microcosm of Indian society and ways of thought. Jain scholarship over the centuries has covered such secular fields as science, mathematics and logic, as well as religion and philosophy. Jain theories of life and the universe are of interest to modern science. Jain ethical concepts have a.

VIII In this essay, I proposed a theoretical interpretation of syncretic processes as forms of symbolic communication, broadly following Habermas' analyses of systematically distorted and latent strategic action, predicated on the work of Grice and sociolinguists such as Hymes, Gumperz.

Jainism believes karma is a fluid like substance that becomes attached to people and that souls exist in all animate and inanimate objects. Find out from these essays why it is so difficult to practice a religious tradition that gave Hinduism. Jainism History. Jainism is perhaps one of the most ancient religious traditions of not just India but.