Indian-born American scholar of Jainism and Buddhism (1923–2021)
Padmanabh Jaini
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Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini (October 23, 1923 - May 25, 2021) was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United States. He was from a Digambar Jain family; however he was equally familiar with both the Digambara and Śvetāmbara forms of Jainism. He has taught at the Banaras Hindu University, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he retired in 1994. Jaini was the author of several books and papers. His best known work is The Jaina Path of Purification (1979). Some of his major articles have been published under these titles: The Collected Papers on Jaina Studies (2000) and Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies (2001). He died on 25 May 2021 at Berkeley at age 97.[1]
^"Professor Padmanabh Srivarma Jaini passes away". University of California at Berkley. Retrieved 24 August 2021.
Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini (October 23, 1923 - May 25, 2021) was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United...
ISBN 978-0-520-06820-9 Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1998) [1979], The Jain Path of Purification, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1578-0 Jaini, Padmanabh S., ed....
Jwalamalini Trust. p. 7. Jaini 2000, p. 137. Jaini 1998, p. 107. Jaini 1998, pp. 107–115. Jaini 1998, pp. 117–118. Jaini, Padmanabh S. (2003). "From Nigoda...
India. Columbia University Press. pp. 3–4. ISBN 978-0-231-15094-1. Padmanabh, Jaini (1972). "The "Ālokā" of Haribhadra and the "Sāratamā" of Ratnākaraśānti:...
clear fabrication arising out of sectarian propaganda. According to PadmanabhJaini, Vasudhara Dharani, a Buddhist work was among the Jainas of Gujarat...
scholarly and intellectual world. He was a mentor for famous Jain scholar PadmanabhJaini. During his lifetime he won such awards as the Sahitya Akademi Award...
wandering of a digamber monk is termed "Vihara" an old sramanic term. PadmanabhJaini writes: Shantisagara has owned nothing, not even a loincloth, since...
History Of Ancient India. Sterling. pp. 107–108. ISBN 978-81-207-2503-4. PadmanabhJaini (1998). The Jaina Path of Purification. Motilal Banarsidass. p. 163...
of Indian Philosophy, Motilal Banarsidass, ISBN 978-81-208-1086-0 Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1998) [1979], The Jaina Path of Purification, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass...
Glasenapp 2003, p. ix. Jaini 2000, p. 122 PadmanabhJaini, Collected papers on Jaina Studies, Chapter 7, Pg 137 Jaini 2000, p. 134 Jaini 2000, p. 135 Patil...
ISBN 978-0-521-52305-9. Jaini, Padmanabh (1998). The Jaina path of purification. Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 294, 285–295. ISBN 978-81-208-1578-0. Jaini, Padmanabh (1998)...
Bellad Bagewadi). The famous Berkeley scholar of Buddhism and Jainism PadmanabhJaini was a student of the Karanja Gurukul. Karanja is also known as Karanja...
Upadesharasayana 26; Dundas pp. 162–163 Jindal pp. 89–90; Laidlaw pp. 154–155; Jaini, Padmanabh S.: Ahimsa and "Just War" in Jainism, in: Ahimsa, Anekanta and Jainism...
ISBN 978-81-208-0805-8. Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1998) [1979]. The Jaina Path of Purification. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 978-81-208-1578-0. Jaini, Padmanabh S. (2001)...
Rai Jain – influential Jain writer and apologist of the 20th century PadmanabhJaini – author, Professor Emeritus Berkeley University Pankaj Jain Janna...
Champat Rai Jain 1917, p. 121. Jaini 1927, p. 46. Kuhn, Hermann (2001) p. 87–88 Jaini, Padmanabh (1998) p. 133 Jaini, Jagmandar-lāl (1927). Gommatsara...
been a major preoccupation of the Jainas throughout their history. — PadmanabhJaini Mahavira is usually depicted in a sitting (or standing) meditative...
Cort Paul Dundas Virchand Gandhi Hermann Jacobi Champat Rai Jain PadmanabhJaini Jeffery D. Long Hampa Nagarajaiah Bal Patil Jinendra Varni Community...
ISBN 978-0-520-03923-0. Jaini, Padmanabh S. (1998) [1979]. The Jaina Path of Purification. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 81-208-1578-5. Jaini, Padmanabh (2000). Collected...
CityHarbhajan Singh Khalsa, introduced Kundalini Yoga and Sikhism to the US PadmanabhJaini, scholar of Jainism Harbhajan Singh Khalsa, introduced Kundalini Yoga...
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