World’s first Vegan Ayambil festival (Chaitra Oli) took place at the Oshwal Centre in Potters Bar, London. Though, those observing the Oli do not consume any dairy products, the organisers and volunteers who provide all the backup services would normally consume some dairy products through sweet meats and tea had observed a complete abstinence from dairy products.
The [...]
Jainpedia Project Team has been working closely with V&A South Asian Section. A tentative schedule has been developed for the current year as listed below. As the dates are firmed up we shall announce those.
Month/Date
Event
Audience
Details
May 14th 2010 – 31st Dec 2012
JAINpedia display opens to public in Nehru Gallery
All audiences welcome
Special display of 19 Jain related [...]
31Mar10
Gallery Talk on Jain Art at V&A
Jainpedia Project Team is delighted to announce that our first Gallery Talk ‘Jain Art from India’ will take place at the V&A in the Nehru Gallery of Indian Art, please see below for details. All are welcome to attend this interesting and educational event with Asia Curator Nick Barnard on 20th May 2010 at 13.00 [...]
28Mar10
Greetings from Vatican
Institute has built up a good rapport with the Office of His Holiness the Pope over the past several years. It has now become customary for the Institute and the Vatican to exchange greetings on each other’s festive days.
Vatican has since then taken to sending greetings to major Jain organisations elsewhere as well to build wider relations.
Letter of [...]
A ‘Learn Jainism’ Blog is being launched by Colin Hynson to provide updates on the web site with the same name.
The Institute had co-ordinated the first Interfaith Week’s celebration in England during November 2009. Oshwal Association of the UK had opened the doors of their temples at both Potters Bar and Croydon. This is a report by one of the visitors to Potters Bar.
Following Dr Sanghrajka’s work with RE Council – there is a recognition now that minority religions like Jainism should also be given a place in the regular RE curriculum of all primary schools. The Schools Minister, Ms Diana johnson supports this idea.
1Feb10
A New Tour of the Far East
Dr Harshad Sanghrajka, Institute’s Hon Secretary/Director will be making a second tour of Jain Centres in the Far East following the successful tour of early last year. the centres to be visited are Perth, Singapore and Kuala Lumpur
23Dec09
Progress on Jainpedia Project
Jaipedia project is progressing at fast pace and the main partner for the project, Kings College, University of London has already produced the fist pages of the proposed database to give a taste of what is to come.
Each section of every page is linked to a specific section of the database giving a much wider [...]
Scholars in Jain Community may wish to avail themselves of the opportunities being offered by the University of Oslo, Norway.
Up to 3 fellowships are being offered at The Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Education through the Kultrans program. Up to two doctoral fellowships will be at the Faculty of Humanities. We’d be glad to welcome [...]