P.S. Jaini's demise is a very sad loss for the scholarly community. I remember how I was in Ahmedabad when his book The Jaina Path of Purification appeared. Pt. Dalsukhbhai Malvania had a pre-publication copy of the book and showed it to me when I visited him at his home; Malvania said this is a book everybody should read. Now, more than forty years later, there still is no better introductory book to Jaina thought in a western language. It is the obvious book which I recommend to my students.
The first time I spoke with Padmanābhanavaru was on the occasion of a conference in Toronto, more than 25 years ago. I must admit that I enjoyed the shock on his face when I told him in Kannada that I knew where he was from, that his mother was a well-known Jaina author, and that I knew all the leading Jaina clergy in his native region who told anecdotes about him. Unfortunately not many more such occasions for meeting followed, but I remember them all as cordial and beneficial.
He will be sorely missed. Another scholar of a great generation has left us.
Robert Zydenbos
On 2021-05-26 12:52, eva de clercq wrote:
Dear all,
Some colleagues in India brought to our attention that Padmanabh S. Jaini, one of the greatest scholars of Jainism (and Buddhism), and professor at Berkeley, has passed away at the age of 97. […]
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