[INDOLOGY] 16th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS 20-21 March 2014

[Peter Flugel]

*Jaina Hagiography and Biography*

*16th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS*



*The 14th Annual Jaina Lecture*

Thursday, 20th March 2014

18.00-19.30 SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre



Saryu Doshi (Mumbai)

*The Lifes of the Tīrthaṅkaras in Illustrated Jaina Manuscripts*



19.30 Reception Brunei Gallery Suite



*Workshop*

Friday, 21st March 2014, SOAS, Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre



9.00     Tea and Coffee



*First Session: Early Jaina Hagiography and Biography*



9.15     Bansidhar Bhatt (Ahmedabad)

*Phases 1-4 Type Biographic Verses in the Āvaśyaka-Niryukti as the Main
Sources for Later Biographies of Tīrthaṅkaras, etc. in Jainism*



9.45     Renate Söhnen-Thieme (SOAS)

*Ṛṣabha and Bharata in Hindu Purāṇas*



10.15   Ruth Satinsky (University of Lausanne)

*What the Lifespans of Ṛṣabha, Bharata, Śreyāṃsa, and Ara can tell us about
the History of the Concept of Mount Meru*



10.45  Tea & Coffee



*Second Session: Medieval and Early Modern Jaina Hagiography and Biography*



11.15   Eva De Clerq (University of Ghent, Belgium)

*Biographies of Ṛṣabha and the Rise of Śatruñjaya*



11.45   Anna Esposito (University of Würzburg, Germany)

*Why Narrating the Same Biography Twice? Tiviṭṭhu, Ayala and Āsaggīva in
Saṅghadāsa’s Vasudevahiṇḍī*



12.15   Steven M. Vose (Florida International University, USA)

*A Kharatara Gaccha Monk in the Tapā Gaccha Imaginaire:  Tapā Gaccha
Re-tellings of the Life of Jinaprabhasūri*



12.45   Group Photo



13.00   Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite



*Third Session: Narrating Lives*



14.00   Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan)

*Biography of the Jaina Monk Jambūvijaya*



14.30   Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (University of Tübingen, Germany)

*Rāmacandrasūri (1897-1992): A Life Between Consistent Asceticism and
Political Controversies*



15.00   Whitney M. Kelting (Northeastern University, USA)

*Great Nun as Mother: Hagiography and the Biography of Divyaprabhāśrījī*



15.30   Tea & Coffee



*Fourth Session: Analytical Perspectives*



16.00   Luitgard Soni (Innsbruck)

*Lifes' Ends: Jaina Modes of Dying in Ārādhanā Texts*



16.30   Tillo Detige (University of Ghent, Belgium)

*Singing the Praises of the Bhaṭṭārakas: Hagiographic Writings on
North-Indian Digambara Pontiffs*



17.00 Peter Flügel & Kornelius Krümpelmann (SOAS)

*Johannes Klatt’s Jaina Onomasticon*



Brief Break



*Fifth Session: Final Discussion & Remarks*



17.45-18.00



Free and Open to All!



Donations invited.



Contact: Centres at soas.ac.uk

-- 
Dr Peter Flügel
Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies
Department of the Study of Religions
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Thornhaugh Street
Russell Square
London WC1H OXG

Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8 at soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies


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