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Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices (2017)
Book Chapter
Flügel, P. (2017). Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices. In C. M. Moreman (Ed.), The Routledge Companion to Death and Dying (119-132). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315723747

Jaina metaphysics is dualistic. Living beings are regarded as products of the amalgamation of the immortal substances, soul and matter. From the point of view of Jaina doctrine, the approaching disintegration of a gross body is not a calamity, but an... Read More about Jaina Afterlife Beliefs and Funerary Practices.

Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage (2017)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2017). Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage. Jaina studies, 12, 25-26

Considerable advances towards the reconstruction of the history of the Jaina monastic tradition have been made through the publication and analysis of inscriptions and monastic chronicles. Yet, the social history of Jainism remains imperfectly unders... Read More about Jaina-Prosopography: Monastic Lineages, Networks and Patronage.

Review of: Gérard Fussman, Choix d’articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2014. (2017)
Journal Article
Tournier, V. (in press). Review of: Gérard Fussman, Choix d’articles. Réunis par Denis Matringe, Éric Ollivier et Isabelle Szelagowski. (Réimpressions, no. 14) 598 pp. Paris: École française d’Extrême-Orient, 2014. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, 80(1), 169-70. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X17000295

The Jain Prakrit Origin of the Vetāla (2017)
Journal Article
Wright, J. C. (2017). The Jain Prakrit Origin of the Vetāla. Jaina studies, 12, 34-35

In the absence of any other plausible etymology, there is thus reason to believe that the Vaitālīya metre takes its name from the subject-matter of its most important attestation in Jain literature, i.e., the destruction (vidāraṇa) of Karma. It is pr... Read More about The Jain Prakrit Origin of the Vetāla.

Klaus Bruhn (22.5.1928 – 9.5.2016) (2017)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2017). Klaus Bruhn (22.5.1928 – 9.5.2016). Jaina studies, 12, 40-44

With the passing of Klaus Bruhn Jaina Studies has lost one of its most significant pillars and innovators, who nurtured the field over a period of 65 years.1 Born in Hamburg as the only child of the Classical Philologist and Gymnasium teacher Dr Chri... Read More about Klaus Bruhn (22.5.1928 – 9.5.2016).

Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852–1903). Forgotten Chronicler of Jainism and Bibliographer of Oriental Literature: Letters to Albrecht Weber 1874–1882, Ernst Kuhn 1881–1889, Charles Rockwell Lanman 1889 and Ehrhardt Karras 1891, with Curricula Vitae, and a Complete Bibliography of Johannes Klatt’s Works (2017)
Journal Article
Flügel, P. (2017). Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852–1903). Forgotten Chronicler of Jainism and Bibliographer of Oriental Literature: Letters to Albrecht Weber 1874–1882, Ernst Kuhn 1881–1889, Charles Rockwell Lanman 1889 and Ehrhardt Karras 1891, with Curricula Vitae, and a Complete Bibliography of Johannes Klatt’s Works. Berliner indologische Studien, 23(1), 1-76

Research on the unpublished correspondence of Western Jainologists and of Jaina mendicants, preserved only in fragments in Indian, European and American archives, has unearthed many previously unknown letters of the pioneers of Jaina Studies, presume... Read More about Johannes Emil Otto Klatt (1852–1903). Forgotten Chronicler of Jainism and Bibliographer of Oriental Literature: Letters to Albrecht Weber 1874–1882, Ernst Kuhn 1881–1889, Charles Rockwell Lanman 1889 and Ehrhardt Karras 1891, with Curricula Vitae, and a Complete Bibliography of Johannes Klatt’s Works.