The Jains

ISBN-13: 9780415266062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 368 str.

Paul Dundas

Opis

The Indian religion of Jainism, the central tenet of which involves non-violence to all creatures, is one of the world's oldest and at the same time least understood faiths. Paul Dundas looks at Jainism in its social and doctrinal context, discusses its history, sects, scriptures and ritual, and describes how the Jains have, over 2500 years, defined themselves as a unique religious community.

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