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Sthanakavasi Jain Tradition (2002)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2002). Sthanakavasi Jain Tradition. In J. G. Melton, & M. Baumann (Eds.), Religions of the World: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of (1221-1223). ABC-CLIO

Encyclopedia entry. Brief summary of the history, doctrines, schools and sects of the Sthanakavasi Jain tradition

Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī I (2000)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2000). Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī I. Berliner indologische Studien, 13/14, 37-103

Some thirty per cent of Jains describe themselves as Sthanakavasis. Yet the Sthanakavasi tradition has not received any attention by academic scholarship. The present article is the third of a five-part history of the Sthanakavasi tradition, based on... Read More about Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī I.

Zum Ursprung der Terapanth Svetambara Jain Tradition (2000)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2000). Zum Ursprung der Terapanth Svetambara Jain Tradition

The article 'On the Origin of the Terapanth Svetambara Jain Tradition' offers an overview of the history and organisation of the Terapanth mendicant tradition in German.

Jainism and the Western World: Jinmuktisūri and Georg Bühler and Other Early Encounters (1999)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (1999). Jainism and the Western World: Jinmuktisūri and Georg Bühler and Other Early Encounters. Jain Journal, 34(1), 1-11

The article reconsiders the perceived coincidence of interests of the Jains and orientalist scholarship in the 19th and early 20th centuries on the basis of Georg Bühler’s (1837-1896) personal account of his visit to the famous Jain library in Jaisal... Read More about Jainism and the Western World: Jinmuktisūri and Georg Bühler and Other Early Encounters.