Jainism and Jaina Culture in India

Contents: Introduction. 1. Jainism and Jaina Culture in General. 2. Asceticism as Propounded in the Jain Canons. 3. The Abode of the Jinas Adjoining the Eastern Indian Plateau: An Archaeological Study. 4. Jaina Sarvatobhadra Pratimas or Caumukhas from Purulia District of West Bengal: An Iconographic Discourse. 5. Jainism in Bengal from a Literary and Archaeological Point of View. 6. Jaina Scultural Remains from Satpatta Village, District Bankura, West Bengal. 7. Study of jaina Art as a Source of Indian History and Culture. 8. Ecology and Jain Philosophy. 9. Environment and Sustainable Development: An Exploration from Jainism. 10. On the Arrangement of Some Sutras of Trivikramama’s Prakrit Grammar. 11. Techinical Terms in Prakrit Grammar of Hemacandra. 12. Scientific Aspects of Karma Theory. 13. Akarananiyama: A Transseharian Type of Ethically Possitive Action. 14. Peaceful Co-Existence in Jain Ethics. 15. Spirituality is the Highest Weal: A Jaina Perspective. 16. Self and Liberation: A Jaina Understanding. 17. Existence of Life after Death: A Jain Perspective. 18. Philosophy of Anekanta Approach’s the Tolerance and Co-exist Mind. 19. Jainism: Way of Peace. 20. The Jaina Attitude Towards God. 21. Divine Aspect in Samvara Nirjana in Jainism. 22. Jainism: A Dynamanic Realism. 23. Social Aspect of Jainism. 24. Non-violence, Rights and Social Development: The Jain Perspective. 25. Early Manuscript Paintings in Western India of the Medieval Period. 26. Hemacandra on Sarvana. 27. Cloisters Jaina Friars In Karnataka. 28. The First Collected Edition of Svetambara Jain Canonical Texts. 29. Food Adoption: Ahimsa and Jainism.

The book contains twenty-nine papers contributed by eminent scholars from India and abroad to articulate on various aspects of the Jainism and Jaina Culture in India to record the results of their years of painstaking and meaningful research in a succinct and lucid manner with great objectivity and scholarly insight. Topics on Jainism and Jaina culture, concept of non-violence, antiquities and art, Jaina philosophy, existence of life after death, Jaina manuscript, painting, language and literature, food adoption and every other aspect and activities have been discussed in their true historical perspective. This volume is a commendable work worthy of a place in every library for the use of researchers as well as general readers.