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Jainism is one of India's three classical religions, along with Buddhism and Hinduism. Though older than Buddhism by a generation, the two religions arose and first spread in Northeastern India and have much in common. Both Buddhism and Jainism aim to offer practitioners a path to follow that leads from the painful cycle of endless rebirths to Liberation from all suffering. Both religions also rejected many of the practices and ideas of early Hinduism, ...
Monks and Magicians brings together seven essays of the little studied and important topic of religious biographies in Asia. Three essays deal with biographies of Buddhist and Jain figures in India. One essay treats the biography of a Tibetan king. The remaining three essays explore the different strategies that were employed in writing biographies in traditional China.
This book contains one long, very interesting and informative essay on biographical writings in the Jain tradition. The author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of two Jain monks who lived in the 11th and 14th centuries respectively. The book also brings together twelve essays by leading scholars of Chinee and Indian civilizations from Europe, North America and Asia. The essays cover a wide range of topics in Indian and ...
An anthology of original and compelling tales of Jain wisdom. This fine collection of stories revolving around the concept of renunciation are drawn from texts dating between the 7th and 15th centuries and also represent a variety of genres. Themes central to Jainism are explored here. Among these are renunciation of the world by young men; the effects of such renunciation upon families, wives and children; the persistence of emotional bonds beyond a single ...
This volume for the first time makes available to the English reading public a selection of Bibhutibhushan’s varied stories. The stories are simply told and most often center around the villages of Bengal that Bibhutibhuhan knew from Childhood. Their main concern is always with the small details and small passions of life; often the larger upheavals of society, the World Wars, the struggle for Independence in India, find but scant mention in Bibhutibhushan’s ...