ABSTRACT
The last ten years have seen interest in Jainism increasing, with this previously little-known Indian religion assuming a significant place in religious studies.
Studies in Jaina History and Culture breaks new ground by investigating the doctrinal differences and debates amongst the Jains rather than presenting Jainism as a seamless whole whose doctrinal core has remained virtually unchanged throughout its long history. The focus of the book is the discourse concerning orthodoxy and heresy in the Jaina tradition, the question of omniscience and Jaina logic, role models for women and female identity, Jaina schools and sects, religious property, law and ethics. The internal diversity of the Jaina tradition and Jain techniques of living with diversity are explored from an interdisciplinary point of view by fifteen leading scholars in Jaina studies. The contributors focus on the principal social units of the tradition: the schools, movements, sects and orders, rather than Jain religious culture in abstract.
Peter Flügel provides a representative snapshot of the current state of Jaina studies that will interest students and academics involved in the study of religion or South Asian cultures.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |85 pages
Orthodoxy and Heresy
chapter |30 pages
Adda or the Oldest Extant Dispute Between Jains and Heretics (Sūyagaḍa 2,6)
chapter |25 pages
The Dating of the Jaina Councils
part |67 pages
The Question of Omniscience and Jaina Logic
chapter |37 pages
Implications of the Buddhist–Jaina Dispute Over the Fallacious Example in Nyāya-Bindu and Nyāyâvatārā-Vivṛti*
part |82 pages
Role Models for Women and Female Identity
chapter |30 pages
Religious Practice and The Creation of Personhood Among Śvetāmbar Mūrtipūjak Jain Women in Jaipur
part |160 pages
Sectarian Movements
chapter |49 pages
A Fifteenth-Century Digambar Jain Mystic and His Followers*
part |57 pages
Property, Law And Ethics