Jainism, India’s third religion, in contrast to Hinduism and Buddhism, has not yet been fully introduced to the Europeans, although this religion has quite a significant influence on the history, literature and the arts of the land of the Ganga; its unique dogmas and rites deserve, to a very great extent, the attention of the researchers on religion. The following pages endeavour to fill this lacuna and try to give, as far as possible, a complete, clear and objective picture of the growth and nature of Jainism of today.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Helmuth Von Glasenapp
Otto Max Helmuth Von Glasenapp was born in 1891 in Berlin. He studied Indology at Tiibingen, Munich and Bonn, obtaining his Ph.D. in 1914 for his thesis Die Lehre von Karman in der Philosophic der Jainas. This work has already been translated into English in Bombay in the year 1942. He then taught Indology in Bonn, Berlin and Tiibingen till 1959. Glasenapp is one of the few scholars on Indology who visited India. He died in 1963 in a traffic accident. Glasenapp who was a versatile and prolific writer had made it his mission to make the educated people in Germany acquainted with Indian ideas. His greatest contribution to Indology is his profound work on the three religions of India, Hinduism, Jainism and Buddhism. His other notable works are: Die Literaturen Indiens (first published in 1929 and revised in 1961) and Das Indienbild deutscher Denker.
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