The 26th Jaina Studies Workshop: Rethinking Jaina History, Scripture, and Community

Key information

Date
Time
9:00 am to 5:30 pm
Venue
SOAS University of London
Room
Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre (BGLT)

About this event

The Centre of Jaina Studies (CoJS) at SOAS, University of London, is hosting its 24th CoJS Annual Lecture and its 26th Annual Jaina Studies Workshop on 21–22 March 2025.

These events are public and free to anyone interested in Jainism and/or religious traditions.

The 2025 events are dedicated to Paul Dundas (1952–2023) and thematically inspired by his important 2007 monograph History, Scripture and Controversy in a Medieval Jain Sect.

Programme – The 26th Jaina Studies Workshop

TimeEvent
9:00Welcome
First Session
9:15Christopher Key Chapple (Loyola Marymount University)
Paul Dundas and the Legacy of Haribhadra Virahāṅka and Yākinīputra
9:45Christine Chojnacki (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Elephant Treatises in Medieval Romance-Poems: Jain Contribution To Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems
10:15Seema Chauhan (Trinity College Dublin)
The Emergence of Jain Laity
10:45Tea & Coffee
Second Session
11:15Lynna Dhanani (University of California Davis)
Itinerancy and the Archives: Investigating Mendicant Networks through Hymns
11:45Anchit Jain (University of Delhi)
Fashioning the Caityavāsin Polemics: Emerging Parameters of Orthodoxy and Sectarian Attacks
12:15Peter Flügel (SOAS)
Lineages of the Loṅkāgaccha
12:45Group Photo
13:00Lunch: Brunei Gallery Suite
Third Session
14:00Shailesh Shinde (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune)
The Colophon Connection: Reconstructing Jaina Prosopography through Manuscript Analysis
14:30Kamini Gogri (Eikam Resonance Foundation, Mumbai)
Making Known, The Unknown: Negotiating Issues of Identity
15:00Anett Krause (Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin)
The Qalamos Portal - Creating Digital Access to Historical Sources with a Focus on Jaina Studies
15:30Tea & Coffee
Fourth Session
16:00Priyanka Shah (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad)
Decoding Role-Distributions in Pratiṣṭhā Events Recorded in Jaina Donative Inscriptions
16:30Purvi Mahendra (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad)
Jaina Image Inscriptions in Ahmedabad Revisited
17:00Jolly Sandesara (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad)
The Nandimahotsava as an Event
17:30Closing Remarks

Contact

pf8@soas.ac.uk

Registration

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Credits of photograph: Peter Flugel : Paṭṭa of Shatrunjaya in private possession