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.

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.

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

Contact

Registration

Credits of photograph: Peter Flügel: Detail of tīrtha paṭa of Shatrunjaya in private possession

Programme

Friday, 21 March 2025

TimeEvent
6:00pm

The 24th SOAS Annual Jaina Lecture

Olle Qvarnström (University of Lund)
Upakeśagaccha Narratives: Kakkasūri on Hemacandra, Pārśva, and Śatruñjaya

7:30pmReception

Saturday 22 March 2025

TimeEvent
9:00amWelcome
First session
9:15amChristopher Key Chapple (Loyola Marymount University)
Paul Dundas and the Legacy of Haribhadra Virahāṅka and Yākinīputra
9:45amChristine Chojnacki (University of Toronto Mississauga)
Elephant Treatises in Medieval Romance-Poems: Jain Contribution To Ancient Indian Knowledge Systems
10:15amSeema Chauhan (Trinity College Dublin)
The Emergence of Jain Laity
10:45amTea and Coffee
Second session
11:15amLynna Dhanani (University of California Davis)
Itinerancy and the Archives: Investigating Mendicant Networks through Hymns
11:45amAnchit Jain (University of Delhi)
Fashioning the Caityavāsin Polemics: Emerging Parameters of Orthodoxy and Sectarian Attacks
12:15amJohn E. Cort (University of Denison)
Temples and Icons as History: Ācārya Vijay Dharmsūri and the Foundations of Śvetambar Mūrtipūjak Historiography
12:45amGroup Photo
1:00pmLunch: Brunei Gallery Suite
Third session
2:00pmShailesh Shinde (Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute, Pune)
The Colophon Connection: Reconstructing Jaina Prosopography through Manuscript Analysis
2:30pmKamini Gogri (Eikam Resonance Foundation, Mumbai)
Making Known, The Unknown: Negotiating Issues of Identity
3:00pmAnett Krause (Staatsbibliothek Preußischer Kulturbesitz zu Berlin)
The Qalamos Portal - Creating Digital Access to Historical Sources with a Focus on Jaina Studies
3:30pmTea and Coffee
Fourth session
4:00pmPeter Flügel (SOAS)
Lineages of the Loṅkāgaccha
4:30pmPriyanka Shah (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad)
Decoding Role-Distributions in Pratiṣṭhā Events Recorded in Jaina Donative Inscriptions
5:00pmPurvi Mahendra (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad)
Jaina Image Inscriptions in Ahmedabad Revisited
5:30pmJolly Sandesara (Gujarat University, Ahmedabad)
The Nandimahotsava as an Event
6:00pmClosing Remarks