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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.

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.

Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain (2020)
Journal Article
Flügel, P., Balogh, D., Wright, J. C., & Mallinson, J. (2020). Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain. Jaina studies, 15, 23-30

The article introduces the term 'non-tīrtha' as a new analytical category to designate Jaina sacred sites that have vanished or do not yet exist, according to the cyclical Jaina conception of history. It presents new evidence on two different Digamba... Read More about Jaina Non-Tīrthas in Madhyadeśa I: Fragments of Digambara Temples and A New Vaiṣṇava Inscription in Tumain.

Saffron in the Rasam (2011)
Book Chapter
Cox, W. (2011). Saffron in the Rasam. In Y. Bronner (Ed.), South Asian Texts in History: critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock (177-201). Association for Asian Studies

South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock (2011)
Book
Bronner, Y., Cox, W., & McCrea, L. (Eds.). (2011). South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock. Association for Asian Studies

South Asian Texts in History charts the contours of a reenvisioned and revitalized field of Indology in the light of the groundbreaking research of Sheldon Pollock. One of the many exciting aspects of Pollock’s work is its unprecedented combination o... Read More about South Asian texts in history : critical engagements with Sheldon Pollock.