The Jains

ISBN-13: 9780415266055 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 372 str.

Paul Dundas;Dundas Paul

Opis

The Indian religion of Jainism, whose central tenet involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and least understood faiths. This book examines Jainism in its social and doctrinal context.

O autorze

Paul Dundas is senior lecturer in Sanskrit in the School of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, specialising in middle Indo-Aryan philology and the Jain religion. He is the author of The Sattasai and its Commentators