The Colours of Jainism, is a community event that is being organised by Jains for Jains under the banner of Jains UK! This is your event and your support is vital for its success. Activities on offer include Jain lectures and workshops with renowned national and international speakers, a professionally produced Jain dance drama, children’s[…]
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Global Philosophical and Ecological Concepts Cycles, Causality, Ecology and Evolution in Various Traditions and their Impact on Modern Biology by: Dr Rudi Jansma Recently a two volume theosophical study was released in which fundamental concepts concerning our views of nature are discussed on a deep level from the philosophical backgrounds of various cultures the world[…]
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.[…]
JAINpedia Project Manager Job Description and Person Specification The Institute of Jainology is looking to employ a full time Manager for supporting its £800K investment in the development of JAINpedia a unique on line resource for Jainism using contextualised Jain scriptures – see http://blog.jainpedia.org/?p=3#more-3 and http://www.jainology.org/2009/12/23/progress-on-jainpedia-project The role includes supporting the management of relationships with[…]
Yen Feng, a singapore Reporter lauds the interfaith exhibition, a meeting point for all religions. TALK of securing a “common space” in Singapore’s multi-religious society has focused largely on maintaining a secular public sphere. The ongoing interfaith exhibition at Suntec City is a timely reminder that pluralism plays a part in promoting religious harmony, too.[…]
Many would recall the the Jain Exhibition of Art “Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection” held in Los Angeles and London in 1995. Two exhibitions are now be held at Ruben Museum of Art on Jain Art and at Metropolitan Museum of Art on Jain Manuscripts. Following the announcement of the exhibitions to be held by the[…]
Gujarati Lexicon has a supplementary Lok Kosh now to assemble new words in current usage in Gujarati language.
The Institute of Jainology has been promoting the awareness of Jain philosophy worldwide launched the ‘Jainpaedia’ project in India at the Yogi Hall, Dadar, Mumbai on Sunday 25th October. The project’s main objective is to create a contextualised database of the important Jain manuscripts currently in various collections in the UK. This database will be[…]
Folowing requests from many community members Jaina Education Committee has made available two and a half hour traditional Savantsari pratikraman inMP3 format.
The richness of the Jain literature has been captured in thousands of manuscripts, some over a thousand years old, that are scattered in museums, libraries, temples and private collections throughout the world. IoJ has been involved in a number of projects to catalogue Jain manuscripts in various libraries across Europe. Indira Gandhi National Center for[…]