Letter from the Chair Dear Friends, For once we can take respite, just for a moment, to celebrate... more Letter from the Chair Dear Friends, For once we can take respite, just for a moment, to celebrate the harvest of some of the fruits of our labour. In 2015 three new volumes appeared in the CoJS edited series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies: Piotr Balcerowicz' monograph Early Asceticism in India: Ajīvikism and Jainism, and two edited volumes: Jaina Yoga, edited by Christopher Key Chapple, and Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy, a work dedicated to Willem B. Bollée, edited by Peter Flügel and Olle Qvarnström. Moreover, the first volume of the new Jaina Studies Series of Harrassowitz is Johannes Klatt's encyclopaedic bio-bibliographical work Jaina-Onomasticon, due to appear 124 years after he stopped working on the manuscript in 1892. The fact that half of this issue comprises reports on papers delivered at academic congresses reflects the busy conference
Sanmati : essays felicitating Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah on the occasion of his 80th birthday
Reality and Factuality of Classical Indian Narratives
Jaina Modes of Dying in Ārādhanā Texts
The doctrinal profile of the Jaina view of dying and death is embedded in the Ārādhanā textbooks,... more The doctrinal profile of the Jaina view of dying and death is embedded in the Ārādhanā textbooks, as e.g. the Bhagavatī-Ārādhanā, which is also called Mūlārādhanā. The texts reveal the social setting, the monastic disciplines, the ritual structures, knowledge of the human mind as well as of bodily processes, empathy and persuasive skills. The important function of telling the relevant stories at the right time and place is underpinned. Many stories in subsequent anthologies, the Ārādhanā-kathā-kośas, pay special attention to the various ways of dying and the crucial hour of death. These stories underline thereby the impact of the last phase of life for the further existences of the soul. The stories of the Bṛhat-Kathākośa, the oldest extant collection of Ārādhanā-kathās, exemplify the implementation of the Jaina doctrines and display various active and passive modes of dying, its endurance and performance. This article will consider some of the striking aspects of the Jaina ars mori...
Hemavijaya * um 1565 in Indien † vor 1631 in Indien Mönch der Śvetāmbara-Richtung des Jainismus; ... more Hemavijaya * um 1565 in Indien † vor 1631 in Indien Mönch der Śvetāmbara-Richtung des Jainismus; angesehener Kunstdichter von Epen und Hymnen in Sanskrit.
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