Jainism

This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly vi...

jvikism was once ranked one of the most important religions in India between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, after Buddhism, Brahmanism and before J...

This book is an analysis of the philosophical chapters of the Tattvrthdhigama (TA), a foundational text for the Jaina tradition and the first text ...

Environmental policy agendas, activism and academic research into ecological questions are all predominantly derived from the philosophical perspec...

Taking a comparative approach which considers characters that are shared across the narrative traditions of early Indian religions (Brahmanical Hin...

The extraordinary multiplicity of religions and religious cultures in India, chronicled over two thousand yearsFrom its earliest recorded history, ...

Since the earliest encounters between tantric traditions and Western scholars of religion, tantra has posed a challenge. The representation of tant...

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Jainism, perhaps more so than any other South Asian tradit...