Jaina Studies

Publications

Recent Publications

  • Puṣpikā : Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions. Contributions to Current Research in Indology, Volume 7 (Oxford : Oxbow Books)

Edited by Heleen De Jonckheere, Marie-Hélène Gorisse and Agnieszka Rostalska.

The Proceedings Volume of the International Indological Graduate Research Symposium held at Ghent University in September 2017 is out! You can purchase it here.

Past Publications

  • Vekemans, Tine & Iris Vandevelde (Forthcoming) “Digital Derasars in Diaspora - A Critical Examination of Jain Ritual Online” In: Knut Axel Jacobsen & Kristina Myrvold (eds.) Technology and Religion in Historical and Contemporary South Asia: Spaces, Practices and Authorities.
  • De Clercq, Eva (2018) The Life of Padma. Vol. 1  (Murty Classical Library of India 17), Harvard University Press, Boston
  • Gorisse, Marie-Hélène (2017) " Rāvaṇa empereur universel ? Point de vue sémantique et problème de référence chez le jaïn Prabhācandra ". In Acta Orientalia Belgica 30. Essays in honor of Jean-Marie Verpoorten, C.Vielle, C. Cannuyer and D. Esler (eds.), Indica et Buddhica Publishers, pp. 267-278
  • De Clercq, Eva (2017) "Memories of Yoginipura: Delhi's Digambara merchant community after Timur came", South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies 40: 3: 531-543 
  • Gorisse, Marie-Hélène (2016) "Logic in the tradition of Prabhācandra", in Oxford Handbook of Indian philosophy, J.Ganeri (ed.), Oxford Handbooks Online. 6 May. 2016. http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/\\10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199314621.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199314621-e-47
  • Vekemans, Tine (2016) “Jain Tantra: SOAS Jaina Studies Workshop 2015” [Conference report] In: Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, Issue 11 (Mar 2016), pp. 11-15.
  • De Clercq, Eva (2015) "Surpanakha in the Jain Ramayanas." In: Mary Brockington & John Brockington (eds.), Rejection and Response in the Rama tradition: the portrayal of secondary women, London: Routledge, pp. 18-30

  • De Clercq, Eva (2015) "The infuence of Svayambhūdeva’s Paümacariu on Puṣpadanta’s Rāma-story in the Mahāpurāṇa." In: Luitgard Soni & Jayandra Soni (ed.) "Sanmati, Essays Felicitating Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah on the occasion of his 80th Birthday", Sapna Book House, Bengaluru, p. 131–142.

  • Gorisse, Marie-Hélène (2015) "The taste of the mango: a Jaina-Buddhist controversy on evidence", in International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online), P.Flügel (ed.), vol.11 n°3, pp. 1-19

  • Detige, Tillo (2015) "The Bhaṭṭārakas of Kārañjā (Lāḍa): Triveṇī Saṅgama at Jaina Kāśī." In: Luitgard Soni & Jayandra Soni (ed.) "Sanmati, Essays Felicitating Professor Hampa Nagarajaiah on the occasion of his 80th Birthday", Sapna Book House, Bengaluru, p. 143-176.

  • De Clercq, Eva & Tillo Detige (2015) "Colossi and Lotus Feet: Paṇḍitas and Bhaṭṭārakas in the north Indian Digambara Legacy." In: Julia A. B. Hegewald. (ed.) “Jaina painting and manuscript culture: In memory of Paolo Pianarosa”, Studies in Asian Art and Culture (SAAC), Vol. 3, EB-Verlag, Berlin.

  • De Clercq, Eva & Tine Vekemans (2015) ”Rejecting and Appropriating Epic Lore” In: Peter Flügel (ed.) “Jaina Narratives”, Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies, Routledge: London.

  • Detige, Tillo (2015) "Dharma in Jainism: Workshop at Manipal University" [Conference report], Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, no. 10 (February, 2014), p.19-20. (online)

  • Gorisse, Marie-Hélène (2015) "Is inference a cognitive or a linguistic process? A line of divergence between Jain and Buddhist classifications", Puspika. Tracing Ancient India Through Texts and Traditions: Contributions to Current Research in Indology, vol.3, R. Leach and J. Pons (eds.), Oxbow Books, Oxford and Philadelphia, pp. 1-23

  • Vekemans, Tine (2015) “Transnational connections and religious development in the Jain Diaspora through an exploration of the e-diaspora” In: Miletic, Natasha & Tine Vekemans, eds. (2015) “Discovering Diaspora - A Multidisciplinary Approach”, Inter-Disciplinary Press: Freeland.

  • De Clercq, Eva (2014) "Apabhramśa as a Literary Medium in Fifteenth-century North India". In: F. Orsini and S. Sheikh (eds.) "After Timur Left", Oxford, Oxford University Press: 339-364.

  • Detige, Tillo (2014) "Worshipping Bhaṭṭārakas", Jaina Studies: Newsletter of the Centre of Jaina Studies, no. 9 (March, 2014), p.27-30. (online)

  • Vekemans, Tine (2014) ”Double-clicking the Temple Bell: Devotional aspects of Jainism online”, Online - Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, Vol 6 (Dec 2014), pp. 126-143.

  • De Clercq, Eva (2013) "Karman and compassion: animals in the Jain Universal history", Religions of South Asia 7, p.141-157.

Lectures

  • Eva De Clerq: "Biographies of Ṛṣabha and the Rise of Śatruñjaya", 16th workshop of the Center of Jaina Studies: 'Jaina hagiography and Biography', SOAS, London, 21 March 2014:

                              

  • Tillo Detige: "Singing the Praises of the Bhaṭṭārakas: Digambara Hagiographic Compositions from Rājasthān", 16th workshop of the Center of Jaina Studies: 'Jaina hagiography and Biography', SOAS, London, 21 March 2014.

                              

  • Marie-Hélène Gorisse:  "Still like a pot: the role of example in late Indian theories of inference", Conference "udâharana, drstânta and nyâya in texts and contects", Ahmedabad, 24-28 February 2014.
  • Marie-Hélène Gorisse: "Jain Theory of Inference in the Parīkṣāmukham", 15th workshop of the Center of Jaina Studies: 'Jaina Logic in Context', SOAS, London, 22 March 2013 :