Jaina Narratives

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-138-18610-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies

There is a growing recognition that scholarship on Indian religions has been hampered by the lack of knowledge of Jain sources. This book analyses different aspects of the extensive, more than two thousand years long tradition of Jaina narrative literature composed in Prakrit, Sanskrit and vernacular languages.

Written by experts specialising in the study of Jaina narrative literature, this unique book offers an interdisciplinary approach. It presents interesting juxtapositions of narrative paradigms with Jaina ritual culture in history and the contemporary world as well as in Buddhism and Hinduism, thus resulting in new insights which are reflected in the chapters.

This timely publication,brings to the attention of scholars the rich world of Jain narrative literature. It will be of interest to specialists in South Asian and Asian religions.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Flügel, Peter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Part I Tirthankaras in Jaina Universal History 2. Phases 1-4 Type Biographic Verses in the Avasyaka-Niryukti as the Main Sources for Later Biographies of Tirthankaras, etc. in Jainism 3. Rsabha and Bharata in Hindu Puranas 4. What Can the Lifespans of Rsabha, Bharata, Sreyamsa, and Ara tell us about the History of the Concept of Mount Meru? 5. Biographies of Rsabha and the Rise of Satruñjaya 6. Narrative Paradigms for Jaina Mortuary Rituals? The Mythologies of the Worship of the Relics of the Jinas by the Gods Part II Jaina Narrative Literature 7. Why Narrating the Same Biography Twice? Tivitthu, Ayala and Asaggiva in Sanghadasa’s Vasudevahindi 8. Remodelling Jain Novels in Medieval Times: Means and Motivations 9. Evolving Patterns in Jain Narrative Literature: Stylistic and Structural Influence of Medieval Theatre on Storytelling 10. The Curious Geography of Tamil Jain Narrative Literature 11. Acarya Mahaprajña’s Sanskrit Work Asruvina and its Canonical Sources Part III Jaina Biography and Hagiography 12. A Kharatara Gaccha Monk in the Tapa Gaccha Imaginaire: Tapa Gaccha Re-tellings of the Life of Jinaprabhasuri 13. Ramacandrasuri (1897-1992): A Life Between Consistent Asceticism and Political Controversies 14. Biography of the Jaina Monk Jambuvijaya 15. Lifes' Ends: Jaina Modes of Dying in Aradhana Texts Part IV Jaina and Non-Jaina Narratives 16. Jinas-to-be and Bodhisattvas: Paths to Perfection in Jain and Buddhist Rebirth Narratives 17. Are Pandava Brothers Jaina or Non-Jaina? An Unprecedented Explanation by Acarya Hemacandra18. Narada, Non-Violence and Visnu’s False Avatara in the Hindu and Jaina Traditions19. Rejecting and Appropriating Epic Lore

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Flügel is Reader in the Study of Religions and Chair of the Centre of Jaina Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK. He has published extensively on the history, anthropology and sociology of contemporary Jain schools and sects, Jain relic stupas, Jaina-Vaisnava. He is the editor of Studies in Jaina History and Culture (2006), also published by Routledge and the academic editor of the Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies series.