Outputs (4)

The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited (2003)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Flügel, P. (2003, July). The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited. Presented at Jaina Studies Panel, 12th World Sanskrit Conference, Helsinki

The presentation given at the 12th WSC in Helsinki 2003 provides an overview of the origin and decline of the Loṅkā traditions with a focus on the line of succession, infrastructure and religious practices of the Gujarātī Loṅkāgaccha Moṭā Pakṣa, the... Read More about The Loṅkāgaccha Revisited.

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.

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.

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.