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This volume is one of the first wide-ranging academic surveys of the major types and categories of Jain praxis. It covers a breadth of scholarly viewpoints that reflect both the variegation in terms of spiritual practices within the Jain traditions as well as the Jain hermeneutical perspectives, which are employed in understanding its rich diversity.
The volume illustrates a complex and nuanced understanding of the multifaceted category of Jain religious thought and practice. It offers a rare intrareligious dialogue within Jain traditions and at the same time, significantly broadens and enriches the field of Contemplative Studies to include an ancient, ascetic, non-theistic tradition. Meditation, yoga, ritual, prayer are common to all Indic spiritual traditions. By investigating these diverse, yet overlapping, categories one might obtain a sophisticated understanding of religious traditions that originally emerged in South Asia. Essays in this book demonstrate how these forms of praxis in Jainism, and the philosophies that anchor those practices, are interrelated, and when brought into dialogue, help to foster new tools for understanding a complex and variegated tradition such as Jain Dharma.
This book will be useful to scholars and researchers of religious and theological studies, contemplative studies, Jain studies, Hindu studies, consciousness studies, Yoga studies, Indian philosophy and religion, sociology of religion, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and South Asian studies, as well as general readers interested in the topic.
Contents
Introduction - Cogen Bohanec Part I: Meditation 1. The Mindful Renouncer: Jainism & the Contemplative Path- Anne Vallely 2. Jain Yoga and Dhyāna - From Contemplative Introspection to Blissful Meditation- Parveen Jain 3. Comparative Contemplative Praxis in the Jain Yoga-Śāstra and the Hindu Yoga Sūtra- Cogen Bohanec 4. The Aims of Contemplative Practice in Jainism and Advaita Vedānta: A Comparative and Contrastive Study- Jeffrey Long 5. Contemplating Jīvas: The Pedagogical Implications of Jainism's Elemental Meditations- Chris Miller Part II: Prayer & Worship. 6.The Problem of Prayer in the Jain Tradition- M Whitney Kelting 7. "The Fire that Burns the Forest of Karma" : Haribhadrasūri's Theory of Devotion as Contemplative Practice- Anil Mundra 8.Jain Ritual: Ethics and Pūjā - Chris Chapple 9. The Ritual Veneration of Living Digambar Jain Renouncers - Tillo Detige 10.Terāpanth Prabodh: Devotion to Ācāryas in the Modern Jain Śvetāmbara Terāpanth Tradition - Shivani Bothra 11. The Worship of Virtuous Women in Jainism- Sherry Fohr 12. Liminal and Embodied: Some Notes on the Popular Worship of the Jain Goddess Padmāvatī- Nika Kuchuk
