Jaina Narratives

ISBN-13: 9781138186101 / Angielski / Twarda / 2025 / 272 str.

Peter Flügel

Opis

There is a growing recognition that scholarship on Indian religions has been hampered by the lack of knowledge of Jain sources. This book analyses different aspects of the extensive, more than two thousand years long tradition of Jaina narrative literature composed in Prakrit, Sanskrit and vernacular languages.

Written by experts specialising in the study of Jaina narrative literature, this unique book offers an interdisciplinary approach. It presents interesting juxtapositions of narrative paradigms with Jaina ritual culture in history and the contemporary world as well as in Buddhism and Hinduism, thus resulting in new insights which are reflected in the chapters.

This timely publication, brings to the attention of scholars the rich world of Jain narrative literature. It will be of interest to specialists in South Asian and Asian religions.

Spis treści

1. Introduction, Peter Flügel Part I Tīrthankaras in Jaina Universal History 2. Phases 1-4 Type Biographic Verses in the Āvaśyaka-Niryukti as the Main Sources for Later Biographies of Tīrthankaras, etc. in Jainism, Bansidhar Bhatt 3. Rsabha and Bharata in Hindu Purānas, Renate Söhnen-Thieme 4. What Can the Lifespans of Rsabha, Bharata, Śreyāmsa, and Ara tell us about the History of the Concept of Mount Meru?, Ruth Satinsky 5. Biographies of Rsabha and the Rise of Śatruñjaya, Eva De Clerq 6. Narrative Paradigms for Jaina Mortuary Rituals? The Mythologies of the Worship of the Relics of the Jinas by the Gods, Peter Flügel Part II Jaina Narrative Literature 7. Why Narrating the Same Biography Twice? Tivitthu, Ayala and Āsaggīva in Sanghadāsa’s Vasudevahindī, Anna Esposito 8. Remodelling Jain Novels in Medieval Times: Means and Motivations, Christine Chojnacki 9. Evolving Patterns in Jain Narrative Literature: Stylistic and Structural Influence of Medieval Theatre on Storytelling, Basile Leclère 10. The Curious Geography of Tamil Jain Narrative Literature, Anne E. Monius 11. Ācārya Mahāprajña’s Sanskrit Work Aśruvīnā and its Canonical Sources, Samanī Pratibhāprajñā Part III Jaina Biography and Hagiography 12. A Kharatara Gaccha Monk in the Tapā Gaccha Imaginaire: Tapā Gaccha Re-tellings of the Life of Jinaprabhasūri, Steven M. Vose 13. Rāmacandrasūri (1897-1992): A Life Between Consistent Asceticism and Political Controversies, Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg 14. Biography of the Jaina Monk Jambūvijaya, Sin Fujinaga 15. Lifes' Ends: Jaina Modes of Dying in Ārādhanā Texts, Luitgard Soni Part IV Jaina and Non-Jaina Narratives 16. Jinas-to-be and Bodhisattvas: Paths to Perfection in Jain and Buddhist Rebirth Narratives, Naomi Appleton 17. Are Pāndava Brothers Jaina or Non-Jaina? An Unprecedented Explanation by Ācārya Hemacandra, Padmanabh S. Jaini 18. Nārada, Non-Violence and Visnu’s False Avatāra in the Hindu and Jaina Traditions, Jonathan Geen 19. Rejecting and Appropriating Epic Lore, Eva de Clerq & Tine Vekemans

O autorze

Peter Flügel is Reader in the Study of Religions and Chair of the Centre of Jaina Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He has published extensively on the history, anthropology and sociology of contemporary Jain schools and sects, Jain relic stūpas, Jaina-Vaisnava. He is the editor of Studies in Jaina History and Culture (2006), also published by Routledge and the academic editor of the Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies series.