BBC Radio journalist and presenter Ritula Shah,a member of the Jain community has won this years GG2 Media & Creative Arts Award. She was presented with the award at a ceremony in London on November 27th. The GG2 awards are now in their 15th year and are organised by the Asian Media and Marketing Group, the publishers of Garavi Gujarat.[…]
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The combined efforts made by organisations interested in animal welfare and compassion, those wanting to protect our environment and to a smaller extent the Jain organisations are slowly but surely getting recognition and their efforts are beginning to bear fruits. The first noticeable effect is that the case for vegetarianism has now endorsed quite successfully[…]
Shantinatha Charitra – a text written in Sanskrit, that describes the life and times of Shantinatha, the 16th Jain Tirthankara has been included in the most prestigious list of the world’s greatest documents. Unesco’s world heritage body in June 2013 included the Indian entry in the Memory of the World Register 2013 and said “the story is of lasting[…]
The recent advances in medical technology have made it comparatively easy to transplant vital organs from one human body to another. Organ transplant has become almost a routine procedure in most hospitals. The demand for organ donors has grown considerably and the National Health Service in the UK has started a Organ Donor Register where[…]
24th October, 1922 [Vijya Dashmi] – 13th October, 2013 [Vijya Dashmi] Shri Ratilal Premchand Chandaria, fondly known as Ratikaka, passed away peacefully on the auspicious day of Vijaya Dashmi, 13th October, 2013. It is very rare indeed that ones birth and death anniversaries both fall on the same date (teethi) as per the Indian calendar.[…]
The 11th Ahimsa Day was celebrated by the Institute at its regular venue, the House of Commons, London Committee Room No 10 on 9th October 2013. The compére for the evening, Jyotsna Samji gave a warm welcome to everyone after introducing herself. She invited Pujya Samnijis to recite the auspicious Navkar mantra to start[…]
Community of Sant’Egidio Community of Sant’ Egidio a huge Roman Catholic Charity operating in over 70 countries holds an annual peace conference, inviting over 350 delegates representing different faiths, and international organisations like United Nations. It was at the instigation of Pope Paul II that first conference was held in Assisi in[…]
Ahimsa Paramo Dharma Jinalay in Sydney www.sydneyjainmandal.com Introduction Sydney Jain Mandal (SJM) has undertaken a project to build Jain Education Centre/Jinalay in Sydney, Australia. The centre will be focal point of promoting Jain principles and provide a social platform for people following Jain principles. Sydney Jain Mandal SJM will be responsible for building and[…]
Ahimsa – Conscious Compassion – A Public Lecture at the British Library Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M. a Harvard-educated psychologist, professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, celebrated speaker, and the author of the award-winning primer on carnism “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows” will be giving a presentation[…]
Institute of Jainology and the B J Institute of Learning & Research Ahmedabad had jointly organised a six month Manuscriptology Course that was inaugurated on 27th July 2013 by Shri Madhusudan Dhanki. This course is recognized by the Gujarat University, Ahmedabad. Shri Dhanki emphsised the importance of the part played by the manuscriptology experts in[…]