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Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2023). Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (4-14). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

The history of the Jaina philosophical discourse on the soul
is yet to be written. It will inevitably focus on the ways in which
the relationship between soul and body is conceived, and what
practical implications the various stances carry. For Ja... Read More about Pure Soul: Conceptions and Representations.

A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow (2022)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2022). A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow. Jaina studies, 17, 22-27

It is an open question when and where Jainas first started to preserve and venerate bone relics of prominent mendicants in purpose-built stūpas in spite of their doctrinal rejection of this practice. A.A. Führer’s (1892) “List of accessions to the Lu... Read More about A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow.

The Concept of Samudghāta In Jaina Philosophy (2022)
Thesis
Pragya, P. The Concept of Samudghāta In Jaina Philosophy. (Thesis). SOAS University of London

Just as liberation-theory is crucial for Jaina soteriology, and karma-theory is crucial for liberation-theory, samudghāta-theory is crucial for karma-theory. This thesis examines the concept of samudghāta (Pkt. samugghāya) in Jaina-philosophy on the... Read More about The Concept of Samudghāta In Jaina Philosophy.

Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892 (2022)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2022). Johannes Klatt, Librarian for Oriental Manuscripts at the Royal Library in Berlin from 1872 to 1892. In S. Mangold-Will, C. Rauch, & S. Schmitt (Eds.), Sammler-Bibliothekare-Forscher: Zur Geschichte der Orientalischen Sammlungen an der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin (151-207). Klostermann

The article is a revised and expanded extract of Flügel, Peter (2016) 'Life and Work of Johannes Klatt'. In: Flügel, Peter and Krümpelmann, Kornelius, (eds.), Jaina-Onomasticon. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, pp 9-164.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory (2021)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2021). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory. Berliner indologische Studien, 25, 213-308

In Jaina Studies, the articulation between lived religion, cultural memory, and the cultural unconscious remains largely unexamined. The biographies of “founding figures” are obscure, and very little can be said about the origins of key texts and fra... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.1: Sites of Non-Memory.

Jaina-Prosopography Database (2021)
Data
Flügel, P., & Krümpelmann, K. (. Jaina-Prosopography Database. [Data]

In the last two and a half millennia the itinerant Jaina mendicant tradition exerted an important influence on Indian culture and society. From its region of origin in modern Bihar it spread across most parts of South Asia and beyond. In the process... Read More about Jaina-Prosopography Database.

International Journal of Jaina Studies Volume 10-13 (2014-17) (2021)
Book
Flügel, P. (Ed.). (2021). International Journal of Jaina Studies Volume 10-13 (2014-17). Hindi Granth Karyalay

Fourth printed volume of the International Journal of Jaina Studies (IJJS) of the Centre of Jaina Studies at SOAS. Contributions to the journal are first published in the IJJS (Online) with a different pagination and later in book format.

Contributions to Jaina Studies. Volume I. Jaina Schools and Sects (2020)
Book
Flügel, P. (2020). Contributions to Jaina Studies. Volume I. Jaina Schools and Sects. Motilal Banarsidass

The twelve articles assembled in this first volume of the author's collected papers in Jaina Studies written in English were published as journal articles and book chapters between 1996 and 2016. The articles address aspects of the history, doctrine... Read More about Contributions to Jaina Studies. Volume I. Jaina Schools and Sects.

Present Lord: Sīmandhara Svāmī and the Akram Vijñān Movement (2020)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2020). Present Lord: Sīmandhara Svāmī and the Akram Vijñān Movement. In P. Flügel (Ed.), Contributions to Jaina Studies: Jaina Schools and Sects (448-488). Motilal Banarsidass

Most textbooks present Jainism as a religion which survives in a pristine state virtually unchanged from the time of its last prophet, Mahāvīra, some 2500 years ago. Walther Schubring, for instance, wrote in his classical work The Doctrine Of The Jai... Read More about Present Lord: Sīmandhara Svāmī and the Akram Vijñān Movement.

Beyond the Hindu Frontier: Jaina-Vaiṣṇava Syncretism in the Gujarātī Diaspora (2020)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2020). Beyond the Hindu Frontier: Jaina-Vaiṣṇava Syncretism in the Gujarātī Diaspora. In P. Flügel (Ed.), Contributions to Jaina Studies: Jaina Schools and Sects (489-569). Motilal Banarsidass

Article 51A(f) of the Indian Constitution recognises what many politicians and anthropologists still fail to do: India does not represent a civilisational whole but has a "composite culture". That this statement does not merely reflect the wishful th... Read More about Beyond the Hindu Frontier: Jaina-Vaiṣṇava Syncretism in the Gujarātī Diaspora.