SOAS Centre for Jaina Studies
20th Anniversary Jaina Studies Workshop
History and Current State of Jaina Studies
Date: 24 March 2018Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 24 March 2018Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre
Type of Event: Workshop
Programme
First Session: History of Digambara Literature and Philosophy
9.00 Tea and Coffee
9.15 Hampana Nagarajaiah (Bangalore, India)
Current Debates on the Influence of Jainism on Early Kannada Literature
9.45 Nalini Balbir (University of Paris, Sorbonne III)
Digambara Books of Discipline: A Study in Progress
10.15 Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)
A Note on the Oeuvre of the ‘Collective Thinker’ Kundakunda. The Case of the Pañcâstikāya-saṅgraha (Paṁc’atthiya-saṁgaha)
10.45 Tea & Coffee
Second Session: Braj Bhāṣā, Science and Technology in Jaina Studies
11.15 Adrian Plau (SOAS)
Rāmcand Bālak's Sītācarit - A 'New' Jain Rāmāyaṇa in Brajbhāṣā
11.45 Himal Trikha (University of Vienna)
Digital Corpus of Vidyānandin’s Works
12.15 Peter Flügel (SOAS)
The Jaina-Prosopography Database
12.40 Nalini Balbir & Peter Flügel
Book Launch: Jaina Studies. Select Papers from the Panel at Bangkok and Kyoto (Proceedings of the 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok 2015).
12.45 Group Photo
13.00 Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite
Award Ceremony
14.00 International Prakrit Jñānabhāratī Award 2017, Shravanabelagola
Third Session: Brill’s Encyclopaedia of Jainism
14.15 Roundtable Discussion
John Cort, Paul Dundas, Kristi Wiley
Jayandra Soni (chair), Christine Chojnacki (discussant)
15.00 Tea & Coffee
Fourth Session: Jaina Studies and the Jaina Community
15.30 Shin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan)
Paṇḍits and Monks in Jain Studies
16.00 Steven Vose (Florida International University, USA)
From Jainology to Jain Studies…and Back? Toward a Dialogic Approach to Scholarly Engagement with Jain Communities
16.30 Short Break
Fifth Session: Current State of Jaina Studies and Future Prospects
16.45 Roundtable Discussion
Hampana Nagarajaiah, Samaṇī Pratibhāprajñā, Olle Qvarnström, Jayandra Soni, Christine Chojnacki
John E. Cort (chair), Paul Dundas (discussant)
18.00 Final Remarks
Free and open to all! Please register here.
Further information can be found on the SOAS Centre of Jaina Studies webpage.
Organiser: Dr Peter Flügel
Contact email:
Sponsor: Shravanabelagola Matha and JivDaya Foundation (Dallas)