Illustrated Shri Sthaananga sutra
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJaina canonical text; Prakrit text with English and Hindi translation.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKJaina canonical text; Prakrit text with English and Hindi translation.
Author: Ellen Gough
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2021-10-11
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 022676706X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJainism originated in India and shares some features with Buddhism and Hinduism, but it is a distinct tradition with its own key texts, art, rituals, beliefs, and history. One important way it has often been distinguished from Buddhism and Hinduism is through the highly contested category of Tantra: Jainism, unlike the others, does not contain a tantric path to liberation. But in Making a Mantra, historian of religions Ellen Gough refines and challenges our understanding of Tantra by looking at the development over two millennia of a Jain incantation, or mantra, that evolved from an auspicious invocation in a second-century text into a key component of mendicant initiations and meditations that continue to this day. Typically, Jainism is characterized as a celibate, ascetic path to liberation in which one destroys karma through austerities, while the tantric path to liberation is characterized as embracing the pleasures of the material world, requiring the ritual use of mantras to destroy karma. Gough, however, argues that asceticism and Tantra should not be viewed in opposition to one another. She does so by showing that Jains perform “tantric” rituals of initiation and meditation on mantras and maṇḍalas. Jainism includes kinds of tantric practices, Gough provocatively argues, because tantric practices are a logical extension of the ascetic path to liberation.
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Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9788120808560
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Helmuth von Glasenapp
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 0895819716
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe doctrine of karman, the law of action and its results that is central to Jainism, Hinduism, and Buddhism, is uniquely formulated in Jain philosophy. Simply stated, karman is here considered to take the form of material particles, which inhere in the soul, thus causing bondage. This process and its rationale, how it occurs and how one stops it, are minutely detailed in the Jain Karma-granthas. They also describe how one rids oneself of the karmic particles already accumulated, thus attaining liberation. The Karma-granthas form the basis of the present book, the only book in English on this subject of fundamental importance.
Author: Kundakunda
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 304
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKVerse work on Jaina ontology and epistemology.
Author: Kundakunda
Publisher: New Delhi : Bharatiya Jnanpith Publication
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Jain ontology and cosmology; a Digambara vere work.
Author: Sukhlalji Sanghavi
Publisher: Ahmedabad : L.D. Institute of Indology
Published: 1974
Total Pages: 638
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKExegesis, with original Sanskrit text, of Umāsvāti's Tattvārthādhigamasūtra, aphoristic work on Jaina philosophy.
Author: F. W. Thomas
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2014-07-17
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 1107416248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in 1935, this book contains an English translation of the Pravacana-sara, an early Jain text that embodies the teaching of the Digambara sect, along with the translation of a commentary by Amŗtacandra. The introduction by F. W. Thomas provides background to the dialect of Sanskrit used by Kunda-kunda, the original author, and a few details on the author as a historical figure and his importance in Digambara Jainism. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in Jain literature and scripture.
Author: Nemicandra Siddhāntacakravartin
Publisher: Today and Tomorrow Publisher
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9781555282356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKClassical work, with parallel Sanskrit text, English commentary and translation on Jaina philosophy.
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