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[…]
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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[…]
A ‘Learn Jainism’ Blog is being launched by Colin Hynson to provide updates on the web site with the same name.
Opening Ceremony of the new premises of Singapore Jain Religious Society, on Chinese New Year’s eve 13th February was performed by the Senior Minister Mr Goh Chok Tong from the Prime Minister’s Office. His address clearly demonstrates the high regard in which the Jains are held by the Government.
Palitana is a sleepy town in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Perched high on a hill overlooking the town is a network of 1,500 exquisite temples. For followers of the Jain faith this is a place of major significance. It is the world’s highest concentration of Jain temples – they are packed in dense[…]
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.
Nathuramji Premi moved to Mumbai from Devari (Sagar, M.P.) in 1901. His reformist attitude, sheer diligence and intellect took him from being an office clerk to being a renowned Jain scholar known to be an expert translator, editor and publisher of Jain texts and the founder of Hindi Granth Ratnakar Karyalay, a leading publishing house in India and Mumbai’s oldest bookstore. He was called the “Bhishma Pitamaha” of Hindi Publishing.
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.