Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian HistoryOpen Boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world s living religions. Ten closely-focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and non-Jains in South Asian society, with detailed studies of yoga, tantra, aesthetic theory, erotic poetry, theories of kingship, goddess worship, temple ritual, polemical poetry, religious women, and historiography. Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship. |
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Contents
IIARIBHADRAS ANALYSIS OF PATANIALA AND KULA YOGA | 15 |
MANTRA AND HISTORY IN | 31 |
IIEMACANDRA AND SANSKRIT POETICS | 53 |
EROTIC EXCESS AND SEXUAL DANGER IN THE CIVAKACINTAMANI | 67 |
WHO Is A KING? JAIN NARRATIVES OF KINGSHIP IN | 85 |
SWEETMEATS OR CORPSES? COMMUNITY CONVERSION III | 111 |
RITUAL CULTURE AND THE DISTINCTIVENESS OF JAINISM | 139 |
AINS As OTHERS | 163 |
JAIN AND HINDU RELIGIOUS WOMEN | 187 |
THE STORY OF THE DISAPPEARING JAINs RETELLING THE | 213 |
References | 225 |
Contributors | 257 |
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Ahmedabad ascetic Babb bhakti Bombay Brahmanical Buddhist cakravartin Campantar century Cola Cort deity Delhi described devotee Dhaky Digambara Dundas Edited Gaccha goddess Gujarat gunasthanas Haribhadra Hemacandra Hindu religious women Hindu temple women Hinduism hymns ibid identity Institute interaction Jain and Hindu Jain authors Jain community Jain monks Jain religious women Jain ritual Jain temples Jain tradition Jaina Jainism Jayasimha Jina Kalabhra karma king kingship Krsna Kula Kumarapala liberation Madras Madurai Mahavira Mahavira temple mantra medieval Tamilnadu Meister mendicant Merutunga namo narrative Nayanars non-Jain offering ofJain Osian Osval paja Pallava poetics practice Prakrit Pustimarg reference religion rite ritual culture role Sacciyamata saints Saiva Siddhanta Saivism Sanskrit Sastri scholars sectarian shrine Siva SMKS South Asian South India story Studies surimantra Svetambara Tamil Jains Tamil Literature Tamil Saiva Tamilnadu Tantric teacher Tévar Tévaram tion Tirthankar University Press Vaisnava Vanaraja Veda Vedic verse worship Yoga
Bibliographic information
| Title | Open Boundaries: Jain Communities and Cultures in Indian History SUNY series in Hindu Studies |
| Editor | John E. Cort |
| Publisher | State University of New York Press, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0791499855, 9780791499856 |
| Length | 264 pages |
| Subjects | › Religion / General |
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