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Pre-colonial Myanmar Boats (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charney, M. W. (2003, March). Pre-colonial Myanmar Boats. Presented at Britain-Burma Society Lectures, London

Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī II (2003)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2003). Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī II. Berliner indologische Studien, 15-17, 149-240

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 second of a four-part history of the Sthanakavasi tradition, based o... Read More about Protestantische und Post-Protestantische Jaina-Reformbewegungen: Zur Geschichte und Organisation der Sthānakavāsī II.

The Codes of Conduct of the Terāpanth Samaṇ Order (2003)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2003). The Codes of Conduct of the Terāpanth Samaṇ Order. South Asia Research, 23(1), 7-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/02627280030231002

The article investigates the relationship between canonical rules (dharma) and customary rules (maryādā) in contemporary Jain mendicant life. It focuses on an analysis of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jain mendicant order and presents translations and ana... Read More about The Codes of Conduct of the Terāpanth Samaṇ Order.

Spiritual Accounting: The Role of the Kalyāṇaka Patra in the Religious Economy of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jain Ascetics (2003)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2003). Spiritual Accounting: The Role of the Kalyāṇaka Patra in the Religious Economy of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jain Ascetics. In O. Qvarnström (Ed.), Jainism and Early Buddhism in the Indian Cultural Context: Festschrift in Honour of P.S. Jaini (167-204). Asian Humanities Press

Max Weber stated a universal tendency for originally strictly anti-economic monastic asceticism, practised as a means for individual salvation, to become organised and transformed into an asceticism which motivates mendicants at the same time to work... Read More about Spiritual Accounting: The Role of the Kalyāṇaka Patra in the Religious Economy of the Terāpanth Śvetāmbara Jain Ascetics.