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Absent Lord : Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture
Lawrence Babb
Paperback - $52.95
Absent Lord sheds light on a little-known religious tradition and demonstrates that divine 'absence' can be as rich as divine 'presence' in its possibilities for informing a religious response to the cosmos.
Jainism and Ecology : Nonviolence in the Web of Life
Christopher Key Chapple
Hardcover - $68.95
The twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism, which emphasizes nonviolence as the only true path leading to liberation, offers a worldview seemingly compatible with the goals of environmental activism. But can Jainism adopt a sociocentric en ...
Jainism and Ecology : Nonviolence in the Web of Life
Christopher Key Chapple
Paperback - $48.95
The twenty-five-hundred-year-old tradition of Jainism, which emphasizes nonviolence as the only true path leading to liberation, offers a worldview seemingly compatible with the goals of environmental activism. But can Jainism adopt a sociocentric en ...
Jains in the World : Religious Values and Ideology in India
John E. Cort
Hardcover - $169.95
This book offers an illuminating portrait of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Based on field research in northern Gujarat as well as on the study of ancient Sanskrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort discusses the majo ...
The Jains
Paul Dundas
Paperback - $76.95
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, its history, sects, scriptures and r ...
Studies in Jaina History and Culture : Doctrines and Dialogues
Peter Flugel
Hardcover - $397.95
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"Studies in Jaina History and Culture" is a stimulating and representative snapshot of the current state of Jaina studies that will interest students and academics involved in the study of religion or South Asian cultures.
The Forest of Thieves and the Magic Garden : An Anthology of Medieval Jain Stories
Phyllis Granoff
Paperback - $24.95
Lively tales of asceticism, wickedness, and virtue from one of Indias great religious traditions
Beautifully translated from the Sanskrit, the stories in this volume reflect the vital tradition of Jain storytelling between the seventh and fiftee ...
Life Force : The World of Jainism
Michael Tobias
Paperback - $23.95
Outside India, little is known of Jainism, one of the oldest religions in the world; a gentle faith whose ancient precepts have always nurtured an ecological way of life, and which numbers today nearly ten million adherents. At the root of Jainism's ...
That Which Is : Tattvartha Sutra
Umasvati
Hardcover - $98.95
That Which Is, known as the Tattvartha Sutra to Jains, is recognized by all four Jaina traditions as the earliest, most authoritative and comprehensive summary of their religion. Unique in bringing together classical commentaries from each tradition, ...