Collected Papers on Jaina Studies

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Padmanabh S. Jaini
Motilal Banarsidass Publ., 2000 - Religion - 428 pages
"Throughout his long academic career, P.S. Jaini has focused his research on the religious, philosophical and literary achievements of the Buddhists and the Jains. His papers on Jaina Studies, scattered in many learned publications, are brought together here for the first time. They cover a wide range of topics including the Jaina view of the nature of reality, the doctrine of karma, the problem of rebirth, the idea of omniscience, the aptitude for salvation, and the assimilation of Hindu myths and rituals."--Publisher description.
 

Contents

A Jaina Way of Spiritual Discipline
3
The Jainas and the Western Scholar
23
Amṛtacandra Suris Exposition on Reality
39
Svatantravacanāmṛta of Kanakasena
83
A Jaina Doctrine
95
TirthankaraPrakṛti and the Bodhisattva Path
111
Karma and the Problem of Rebirth in Jainism
121
Text and Translation
147
The Pure and the Auspicious in the Jaina Tradition
229
Jaina Festivals
243
Indian Perspectives on the Spirituality of Animals
253
Is There a Popular Jainism?
267
Jaina Attitudes on Eating
281
Literary Evidence for Their Identification on Kuṣāņa Sculptures
297
SECTION VI
308
Jina Rṣabha as an Avatāra of Viṣņu
325

Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women
163
Text and Translation
199
JAINA ETHICS AND PRAXIS
217
Sāmāyika
219
Mahābhārata Motifs in the Jaina Pāṇḍavapurāṇa
351
A Case of Jaina Sectarian Plagiarism
363
A Purāņic Counter Tradition
375
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