Author: Ē Ēkāmparanātan̲
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions, Jaina
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Jaina Inscriptions in Tamilnadu
Author: Ē Ēkāmparanātan̲
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions, Jaina
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Inscriptions, Jaina
Languages : en
Pages : 492
Book Description
Reading History with the Tamil Jainas
Author: R. Umamaheshwari
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 8132237560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book provides a social history of the Tamil Jainas, a minority community living in Tamil Nadu in south India. It holds special significance in the method of studying the community, living in villages of Tamil Nadu and retrieving their perspectives on their past. This is a new approach in terms of historiography from extant works on Jainism in south India. A major feature of this book is the hitherto uncovered aspect of the question of language and identity, caste and the modern socio-political movements in Tamil Nadu, such as the Self-Respect Movement (initiated by ‘Periyar’), in which some Tamil Jainas were active participants. Special features in the book include photographs of the community and monuments, maps, and a unique style, which combines a journalistic approach and academic historical research. This book is of interest to readers of Tamil language and history, and to anyone working on the idea of politics of marginalisation of religious identities, ide as of memory, and community narratives of shared history in the face of religious persecution.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 8132237560
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
This book provides a social history of the Tamil Jainas, a minority community living in Tamil Nadu in south India. It holds special significance in the method of studying the community, living in villages of Tamil Nadu and retrieving their perspectives on their past. This is a new approach in terms of historiography from extant works on Jainism in south India. A major feature of this book is the hitherto uncovered aspect of the question of language and identity, caste and the modern socio-political movements in Tamil Nadu, such as the Self-Respect Movement (initiated by ‘Periyar’), in which some Tamil Jainas were active participants. Special features in the book include photographs of the community and monuments, maps, and a unique style, which combines a journalistic approach and academic historical research. This book is of interest to readers of Tamil language and history, and to anyone working on the idea of politics of marginalisation of religious identities, ide as of memory, and community narratives of shared history in the face of religious persecution.
The Jains
Author: Paul Dundas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113450165X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas looks at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, explaining its history, sects, scriptures and ritual, and describing how the Jains have, over 2500 years, defined themselves as a unique religious community. This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113450165X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and least-understood faiths. Dundas looks at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, explaining its history, sects, scriptures and ritual, and describing how the Jains have, over 2500 years, defined themselves as a unique religious community. This revised and expanded edition takes account of new research into Jainism.
Approaches to Jaina Studies
Author: Narendra K. Wagle
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Early Tamil Epigraphy from the Earliest Times to the Sixth Century A.D.
Author: Iravatham Mahadevan
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 772
Book Description
This book presents the earliest South Indian inscriptions (ca. second century B.C.E. to sixth century A.D.), written in Tamil in local derivations of the Ashokan Brahmi script. The work includes texts, transliteration, translation, detailed commentary, inscriptional glossary, and indexes.
Jainism in South India
Author: P. M. Joseph
Publisher:
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Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : India, South
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Open Boundaries
Author: John E. Cort
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791437858
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Open Boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions. Ten closely-focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and non-Jains in South Asian society, with detailed studies of yoga, tantra, aesthetic theory, erotic poetry, theories of kingship, goddess worship, temple ritual, polemical poetry, religious women, and historiography. Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship.
Publisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791437858
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Open Boundaries provides a new perspective on Jainism, one of the oldest yet least-studied of the world's living religions. Ten closely-focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and non-Jains in South Asian society, with detailed studies of yoga, tantra, aesthetic theory, erotic poetry, theories of kingship, goddess worship, temple ritual, polemical poetry, religious women, and historiography. Viewing the Jains within a South Asian context results in a strikingly different portrait from the standard models represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship.
Jaina Archaeological Heritage of Tamilnadu
Author:
Publisher:
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Category : Jaina antiqities
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Contributed papers presented at the Seminar organized by Dept. of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Madras, in collaboration with All India Digambar Jain (Teerth Sanrakshini) Mahasabha in Oct. 2004.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jaina antiqities
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Contributed papers presented at the Seminar organized by Dept. of Ancient History & Archaeology, University of Madras, in collaboration with All India Digambar Jain (Teerth Sanrakshini) Mahasabha in Oct. 2004.
Jainism and Early Buddhism
Author: Olle Qvarnström
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
ISBN: 0895819562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range of topics in both religions.
Publisher: Jain Publishing Company
ISBN: 0895819562
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description
A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range of topics in both religions.
Negotiating Cultural Identity
Author: Himanshu Prabha Ray
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000227936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists, numismatists and historians, the essays in this volume • Provide insights into the ways people in the past, and in the present, imbue places with meanings; • Examine the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia; • Trace complex patterns of historical development of a temple or a town, to understand ways in which such spaces often become a means of constructing the collective past and social traditions. With a new chapter on continuity and change in the sacred landscape of the Buddhist site at Udayagiri, the second edition of Negotiating Cultural Identity will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of archaeology, social history, cultural studies, art history and anthropology.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000227936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
This volume breaks new ground by conceptualizing physical landscapes as living cultural bodies. It redefines dynamic cultural landscapes as catalysts in which the natural world and human practice are inextricably linked and are constantly interacting. Drawing on research by eminent archaeologists, numismatists and historians, the essays in this volume • Provide insights into the ways people in the past, and in the present, imbue places with meanings; • Examine the social and cultural construction of space in the early medieval period in South Asia; • Trace complex patterns of historical development of a temple or a town, to understand ways in which such spaces often become a means of constructing the collective past and social traditions. With a new chapter on continuity and change in the sacred landscape of the Buddhist site at Udayagiri, the second edition of Negotiating Cultural Identity will be of immense interest to scholars and researchers of archaeology, social history, cultural studies, art history and anthropology.