This book is the first to study six versions of the Dharmaparik a – a Jain narrative that ridicules Brahmanical beliefs and authority. It reveals how Jain authors adapted the story across languages and centuries, offering new insights into Jai...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Mar-2026, Hardback, Kirjastus: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9798855805710)
Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism...Loe edasi...
Sanskrit hymns of praise (stotra/stuti/stava) have been popular and influential within multiple religious traditions for thousands of years. Sanskrit hymns remain lively, meaningful parts of the religious lives of countless Hi...Loe edasi...
Looking at the early history of Jainism, from 6th century BCE onwards, this book focuses on one of the 24 Jinas that are identified as the main religious leaders of Jainism. It is a commonly accepted hypothesis that Parsvanatha, the 23...Loe edasi...
This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism. It presents the history and scripture of Jainism, a religion that originated in ancient India and still exists today.A work of primarily philological nature, g...Loe edasi...
This book is a multi-faceted, thorough, and yet compact introduction to Jainism. It presents the history and scripture of Jainism, a religion that originated in ancient India and still exists today. This book is a multi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jul-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Manohar Publishers and Distributors, ISBN-13: 9789360806033)
Examining MahaviraÕs life and enduring influence on Jain ethics and environmental sustainability, the work traces his journey through conception, renunciation, omniscience, and liberation. Drawing on ancient texts and interdisciplinary insights, it...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-May-2025, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032638485)
This companion volume focuses on the application and practical ramifications of Indian ethics. Here Indian dharma ethics is moved from its preeminent religious origins and classical metaethical proclivity to, what Kant would call, practi...Loe edasi...
Sâdhus is a typology made in a photography studio, Denis Rouvre photographs the Sadhu people - a religious ascetic, mendicant or any holy person in Hinduism and Jainism who has renounced the worldly life....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Jan-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197549889)
Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars, the representation of tantra has typically emphasizd the antinomian, decadent aspects, which created a one-dimensional understanding, and hampered the study of the field....Loe edasi...
Purushottama Bilimoria, Cogen Bohanec, Rita D. Sherma
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Dec-2024, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781032430768)
This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain tradition...Loe edasi...
This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvarthadhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text that presented the Jaina worldview in a clear and systematic way. The book also includes th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 26-Nov-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691199269)
The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, India was a place of remarkable and varied religious activity, ranging from elaborate...Loe edasi...
