Collected Papers on Jaina Studies.(Book Review)

From: The Journal of the American Oriental Society | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: | Copyright information

By PADMANABH S. JAINI. New Delhi: MOTILAL BANARSIDASS, 2000. Pp. v + 428.

With the important exceptions of some work by Maurice Bloomfield and Norman Brown, Padmanabh Jaini is justly regarded as the first Indologist to engage in serious and sustained scholarship on Jainism in North America. Already well established at Berkeley in his first field of South Asian Buddhism by the 1970s, Professor Jaini then began to publish extensively on Jainism as well. In this volume, a collection of twenty-one previously published pieces, the extent of his contribution is brought into full ...

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