International Journal of Jaina Studies (IJJS)
Published by the Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS
1st issue:
The Invention of Jainism: A Short History of Jaina Studies
by Dr.Peter Flügel
.....Because no textual evidence was presented by the Jains in public, ’Jainism/Jinism’5 was not recognised as an independent ’religion’6 until 1879 when Hermann Jacobi in the introduction of his edition of the Kalpasutra of Bhadrabahu furnished for the first time textual proof that the ancient Hindu and Buddhist scriptures already depicted the nigganthas as a separate ’heretical’ (tirthya) group. With this, Jaina Studies was established as an independent field of academic research....
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