16th Jaina Studies Workshop: Jaina Hagiography and Biography

Key information

Date
Time
9:00 am to 6:00 pm
Venue
Brunei Gallery
Room
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre

About this event

The full day workshop follows on from the lecture by Dr Saryu Doshi (Mumbai) which is held on Thursday, 20 March.

See the book of abstracts.

Time Description
 9.00 Tea and Coffee
First Session: Early Jaina Hagiography and Biography 
9.15 Samaṇī Pratibhāprajñā (SOAS) Autobiographical and Biographical Accounts of Ācārya Tulasī
9.45 Renate Söhnen-Thieme (SOAS) Ṛṣabha and Bharata in Hindu Purāṇas
10.15 Ruth Satinsky (University of Lausanne) What the Lifespans of Ṛṣabha, Bharata, Śreyāṃsa, and Ara can tell us about the History of the Concept of Mount Meru
10.45 Tea and Coffee
Second Session: Medieval and Early Modern Jaina Hagiography and Biography
11.15 Eva De Clerq (University of Ghent, Belgium) Biographies of Ṛṣabha and the Rise of Śatruñjaya
11.45 Anna Esposito (University of Würzburg, Germany) Why Narrating the Same Biography Twice? Tiviṭṭhu, Ayala and Āsaggīva in Saṅghadāsa’s Vasudevahiṇḍī
12.15 Steve M. Vose (Florida International University, USA) A Kharatara Gaccha Monk in the Tapā Gaccha Imaginaire:  Tapā Gaccha Re-tellings of the Life of Jinaprabhasūri
12.45 Group Photo
13.00 Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite
Third Session: Narrating Lives
14.00 Sin Fujinaga (Miyakonojo, Miyazaki, Japan) On Muni Jambūvijaya
14.30 Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg (University of Tübingen, Germany) Rāmacandrasūri (1897-1992): A Life Between Consistent Asceticism and Political Controversies
15.00 Whitney M. Kelting (Northeastern University, USA) Great Nun as Mother: Hagiography and the Biography of Divyaprabhāsrījī
15.30 Tea and Coffee
Fourth Session: Analytical Perspectives
16.00 Luitgard Soni (Innsbruck) Lifes' Ends: Jaina Modes of Dying in Ārādhanā Texts
16.30 Tillo Detige (University of Ghent, Belgium) Singing the Praises of the Bhaṭṭārakas: Digambara Hagiographic Compositions from Rājasthān
17.00 Peter Flügel & Kornelius Krümpelmann (SOAS) Johannes Klatt’s Jaina Onomasticon
Brief Break  
Fifth Session: Final Discussion & Remarks
17.45-18.00  Final Discussion & Remarks

Admission: Free and open to all.

Organiser: Centre of Jaina Studies, Centres & Programmes Office

Contact email: centres@soas.ac.uk

Contact Tel: 020 7898 4893/2

Sponsor: SOAS, University of Lund

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