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@soas.ac.uk