21.03.2014 ►16th Jaina Studies Workshop ►Jaina Hagiography and Biography

SOAS

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Statue of "Cāritracakravartī" Ācārya Śāntisāgara "Dakṣiṇa" (1872-1955), "Digambara Jaina Siddhakṣetra" Kunthalagirī, P.Flügel 2012

Date: 21 March 2014Time: 9:00 AM Finishes: 21 March 2014Time: 6:00 PM Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre Type of Event: Workshop

The full day workshop follows on from the lecture by Dr Saryu Doshi (Mumbai)

Book of Abstracts

• Book of Abstracts

Time	Description	Video
9.00	Tea and Coffee
First Session: Early Jaina Hagiography and Biography
9.15	Samani Pratibha Pragya (SOAS) Autobiographical and Biographical Accounts of Ācārya Tulasī	Video
9.45	Renate Söhnen-Thieme (SOAS) Ṛṣabha and Bharata in Hindu Purāṇas	Video
10.15	Ruth Satinsky (University of Lausanne) What the Lifespans of Ṛṣabha, Bharata, Śreyāṃsa, and Ara can tell us about the History of the Concept of Mount Meru	Video
10.45	Tea and Coffee
Second Session: Medieval and Early Modern Jaina Hagiography and Biography
11.15	Eva De Clercq (University of Ghent, Belgium) Biographies of Ṛṣabha and the Rise of Śatruñjaya	Video
11.45	Anna Esposito (University of Würzburg, Germany) Why Narrating the Same Biography Twice? Tiviṭṭhu, Ayala and Āsaggīva in Saṅghadāsa’s Vasudevahiṇḍī	Video
12.15	Steven M. Vose (Florida International University, USA) A Kharatara Gaccha Monk in the Tapā Gaccha Imaginaire:  Tapā Gaccha Re-tellings of the Life of Jinaprabhasūri	Video
12.45	Group Photo
13.00	Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite
Third Session: Narrating Lives
14.00	Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan) On Muni Jambūvijaya	Video
14.30	Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (University of Tübingen, Germany) Rāmacandrasūri (1897-1992): A Life Between Consistent Asceticism and Political Controversies	Video
15.00	Whitney M. Kelting (Northeastern University, USA) Great Nun as Mother: Hagiography and the Biography of Divyaprabhāsrījī	Video
15.30	Tea and Coffee
Fourth Session: Analytical Perspectives
16.00	Luitgard Soni (Innsbruck) Lifes' Ends: Jaina Modes of Dying in Ārādhanā Texts	Video
16.30	Tillo Detige (University of Ghent, Belgium) Singing the Praises of the Bhaṭṭārakas: Digambara Hagiographic Compositions from Rājasthān	Video
17.00	Peter Flügel & Kornelius Krümpelmann (SOAS) Johannes Klatt’s Jaina Onomasticon	Video
Brief Break
Fifth Session: Final Discussion & Remarks
17.45-18.00	Final Discussion & Remarks

Admission

Free and open to all.

Organiser: Centre of Jaina Studies, Centres & Programmes Office

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Contact Tel: 020 7898 4893/2

Sponsor: SOAS, University of Lund