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The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays (2025)
Journal Article
Babb, L. A., & Cort, J. E. (in press). The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 21(1), 1-20

Lawrence A. “Alan” Babb (1941-2023) was a leading anthropologist of South Asian religions, whose extensive scholarship on the Jains played a pivotal role in bringing the study of the Jains into the mainstream of South Asian Studies. His writings cons... Read More about The Anthropological Study of the Jains: Two Essays.

The Terāpanth's work on the Jain Āgamas (2024)
Journal Article
Balbir, N. (2024). The Terāpanth's work on the Jain Āgamas. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(5), 1-48

This paper is an attempt to show how strong and diverse the presence of the Āgamas has always been and remains in Terāpanthin scholarship. It starts with the earliest phases of its history, exploring the writings of the founder Ācārya Bhikṣu and then... Read More about The Terāpanth's work on the Jain Āgamas.

Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody (2024)
Journal Article
Prabhudesai, A. (in press). Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(4), 1-11

The article aims to introduce the unpublished text Chandonuśāsana by Vāgbhaṭa, accompanied by his own commentary titled vivaraṇa. Two manuscripts of this text are available. The main points covered in this article include an overview of the manuscrip... Read More about Chandonuśāsana of Vāgbhaṭa: An Unpublished Jain Text on Prosody.

Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century) (2024)
Journal Article
Restifo, A. (2024). Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century). International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(2), 1-22

In his Alaṅkāra-cintāmaṇi (“Wish-Granting Jewel of Ornament”), Ajitasena, a fifteenth-century Jain monk from the Digambara Senagaṇa lineage, connects the rise of sthāyi-bhāva (stable emotion) with different types of material karmas. This paper invest... Read More about Emotion as Karmic Mode: Rasa in Ajitasena's Alaṅkāra-Cintāmaṇi (15th Century).

Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art (2024)
Journal Article
Krüger, P. F. (in press). Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art. International Journal of Jaina Studies, 20(3), 1-21

Religion has no vocabulary to address its ultimate subject, the transcendent. Instead, religions draw on their immediate environment to address the subject metaphorically. In a metaphor, meaning is transferred from a tangible environment (source doma... Read More about Metaphors of Kingship in Ancient Jain Literature and Art.

Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience (2024)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (in press). Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience. Jaina studies, 19, 16-22

In museums and exhibitions, the Jaina tradition has
generally been presented in stereotyped form. The approach of the Pure Soul exhibition at The Brunei Gallery SOAS was different. For the first time, philosophical and social differences within the... Read More about Pure Soul and the Jaina Traditions, Syntax and Experience.

The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities. In L. W. C. van Lit, & J. H. Morris (Eds.), Digital Humanities and Religions in Asia: An Introduction (157-175). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110747607-008

How can the blind spots in Jaina social and intellectual history be investigated in a systematic fashion given the fragmentary nature of the evidence? The idea of a prosopographical database with a sociological focus emerged organically from a SOAS C... Read More about The Jaina Prosopography Database: A New Tool for the Humanities.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History (2023)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2023). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History. Berliner indologische Studien, 26,

The concluding part of the essay Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhadeśa II presents illustrated sections on Indora, Māmoṃ, Thūbana, Bahorībanda, Seroṃna, Pacarāī, Golākoṭa, Mahebā and Bajarañgagaṛha, Devagaṛha and Būṛhī Canderī. It introduces the method of f... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa II.2: Heritage without History.

The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2023). The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (172-193). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

The analysis of the standard practice of image-veneration in
the Akram Vijñan Mārg enables us to answer the question about the differences between the spiritual (adhyātmika) discourses of A.M. Paṭel, his elder contemporary Kanajī Svāmī, and of Śrīma... Read More about The Trimandiras of the Akrama Vijñāna Mārga.

Six Jaina Bronzes (2023)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P., Krüger, P., & Shah, P. (2023). Six Jaina Bronzes. In P. Flügel, H. De Jonckheere, & R. Söhnen-Thieme (Eds.), Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions (96-103). Centre of Jaina Studies, SOAS

Jain metal altars can be found in numerous museums and
collections outside India. Most of these objects come from
western India and were produced between the 11th and 19th
century. Although large numbers of these altar pieces exist, an
in-depth s... Read More about Six Jaina Bronzes.

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.

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

Jaina thinkers developed different perspectives on the relationship between the soul and the material non-soul. These perspectives can be categorised into two basic stances, namely classical and spiritualistic Jaina philosophy, each with its variants... Read More about Pure Soul: The Jaina Spiritual Traditions.

A Search for Jaina Bone Relics from Kaṅkālī Ṭīlā at the State Museum of Lucknow (2022)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (in press). 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.

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.