Jainism

"A profound and accessible guide to an ecological civilization of peace, material sufficiency, and spiritual abundance for all." -David Korten, international-bestselling author of When Corporations Rule the World Consumerism drives the pursuit of...

Jainism evokes images of monks wearing face-masks to protect insects and mico-organisms from being inhaled. Or of Jains sweeping the ground in front of them to ensure that living creatures are not inadvertently crushed: a practice of non-violence so...

All About Diwali: Things to Make and Do is the perfect celebration gift! Diwali is one of India's most significant holidays. This beautiful activity book book is filled with crafts and recipes, fun activities and facts...

Living Jainism explores a system of thought that unites ethics with rational thought, in which each individual is his or her own guru and social conscience extends beyond human society to animals, plants and the whole of the natural world. The Jain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781733223621Author Parveen JainFormat PaperbackPage Count 386Imprint Parveen and Neeraj Jain EndowmentPublisher Parveen and Neeraj Jain...

Meditation has flourished in different parts of the world ever since the foundations of the great civilizations were laid. It played a vital role in the formation of Asian cultures that trace much of their heritage to ancient India and China. This volume...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824604233Author Rabbi Maurice LammFormat HardbackPage Count 340Imprint Jonathan David Co., IncPublisher Jonathan David Co., IncWeight(grams)...

This book provides a detailed history of Hindu goddess traditions with a special focus on the local goddesses of Andhra Pradesh, past and present. The antiquity and the evolution of these goddess traditions are illustrated and documented with the help of...

Explores the manifold ways in which Jains and Jain ideas become engaged in social worlds.The Jain tradition, with roots in ancient India but now spread across the globe, is anything but static and monolithic. In Engaged Jainism, an interdisciplinary...

How can one live by impossible ideals and values? The Jains of India are a flourishing and prosperous community, but their religion is focused on the teaching and example of ascetic renouncers, whose austere regime is actually dedicated to ending worldly...

John Cort explores the narratives by which the Jains have explained the presence of icons of Jinas (their enlightened and liberated teachers) that are worshiped and venerated in the hundreds of thousands of Jain temples throughout India. Most of these...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789362138101Author Devdutt PattanaikFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins Publishers IndiaPublisher HarperCollins Publishers India

This book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788124611562Author Shrinetra PandeyFormat HardbackPage Count 180Imprint D.K. Print World LtdPublisher D.K. Print World Ltd

Jain is the term used for a person who has faith in the teachings of the Jinas ("Spiritual Victors"). Jinas are human beings who have overcome all passions (kasayas) and have attained enlightenment or omniscience (kevala-jnana), who teach the truths they...

The Jain community in India, though small in number, is very important in the economic and social life of the country. Jain history becomes more important when we find that the community anticipated new commercial practices adopted by European trading...

Although in Hinduism it is mainly used to refer to widow immolation, the term 'sati' means 'true woman' - a female hero. Whitney Kelting has learned that in Jainism satis appear as subjects of devotional hymns. This seems paradoxical, given that Jain...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781898723967Author Natubhai ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 330Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Liverpool University PressWeight(grams) 625g

The first comprehensive study of Jainism to be published in the West.Book InformationISBN 9781898723318Author Natubhai ShahFormat HardbackPage Count 300Imprint Sussex Academic PressPublisher Sussex Academic PressWeight(grams) 617g

Religious rituals can provoke a deeply ambigious reaction in those who practise them. What happens in religious traditions when the nature of the ritual is questioned, but the practice of performing rituals is not itself abandoned? This book draws on the...

The ethical treatment of non-human animals is an increasingly significant issue, directly affecting how people share the planet with other creatures and visualize themselves within the natural world. The Routledge Handbook of Religion and Animal Ethics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666763942Author George W E NickelsburgFormat PaperbackPage Count 392Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 526g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780962367472Author Bharat S ShahFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Setubandh PublicationsPublisher Setubandh PublicationsWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)...

Jainism 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781422377062Author Ernest BenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 372Imprint American Philosophical Society PressPublisher American Philosophical Society Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788878391864Author MC BoysFormat PaperbackPage Count 334Imprint Gregorian & Biblical PressPublisher Gregorian & Biblical PressWeight(grams) 480g

Jainism is arguably the most non-violent and austere religion in the world. While lay Jains attempt to never harm humans or animals, the strict non-violence followed by the highly revered monks and nuns also proscribes harm to any living being, even a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646798001Author Hermann JacobiFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 476g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988207223Author Raja Ram Mohan RoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Mount Meru PublishingPublisher Mount Meru PublishingWeight(grams) 140g

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666763959Author George W E NickelsburgFormat HardbackPage Count 392Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 694g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781646798230Author Hermann JacobiFormat PaperbackPage Count 500Imprint Cosimo ClassicsPublisher Cosimo ClassicsWeight(grams) 630g

Jainism is arguably the most non-violent and austere religion in the world. While lay Jains attempt to never harm humans or animals, the strict non-violence followed by the highly revered monks and nuns also proscribes harm to any living being, even a...

"There is no doubt that the wealth of new data and ideas offered in this exquisite book provides the deepest insights yet into the contemporary religious world of Jain laity. It will serve for some time as a paradigmatic monograph for future empirical...

A Thirty-Day Retreat is a thirty day cycle of scripture reflections inspired by questions the author has addressed as a priest, a pastor, a university teacher, and a scripture scholar: How can I live out my faith in both the world and in the workplace?...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781645602071Author Acharya MahapragyanFormat PaperbackPage Count 616Imprint Black Eagle BooksPublisher Black Eagle BooksWeight(grams) 966g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780940490734Author Ernest BenderFormat HardbackPage Count 579Imprint American Oriental SocietyPublisher American Oriental SocietyWeight(grams) 1492g

For the first time, this influential study by Ludwig Alsdorf is made available to an English speaking audience, translated by Bal Patil. It focuses on two of the most pertinent issues in Indian religion, the history of vegetarianism and cow-veneration,...

This book explores the ways in which the ecologically centred Indian philosophy of Jainism could introduce a new and non-western methodology to environmental politics, with the potential to help the green movement find new audiences and a new voice. ...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226766904Author Ellen GoughFormat HardbackPage Count 296Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams) 152g