Jaina Studies NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTRE OF JAINA STUDIES March 2016 Issue 11 CoJS Newsletter • March 2016 • Issue 11 Centre of Jaina Studies Members SOAS MEMBERS Honorary President Dr Anne Clavel Dr Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg Professor J. Clifford Wright (Aix en Province) (University of Tübingen) Chair/Director of the Centre Professor John E. Cort Professor Adelheid Mette Dr Peter Flügel (Denison University) (University of Munich) Dr Crispin Branfoot Dr Eva De Clercq Gerd Mevissen Department of the History of Art (University of Ghent) (Berliner Indologische Studien) and Archaeology Dr Robert J. Del Bontà Professor Anne E. Monius Professor Rachel Dwyer (Independent Scholar) (Harvard Divinity School) South Asia Department Dr Saryu V. Doshi Professor Hampa P. Nagarajaiah Dr Sean Gaffney (Mumbai) (University of Bangalore) Department of the Study of Religions Professor M.A. Dhaky Professor Thomas Oberlies Dr Erica Hunter (American Institute of Indian Studies, Gurgaon) (University of Göttingen) Department of the Study of Religions Professor Christoph Emmrich Dr Leslie Orr Dr James Mallinson (University of Toronto) (Concordia University, Montreal) South Asia Department Dr Anna Aurelia Esposito Dr Jean-Pierre Osier Professor Werner Menski (University of Würzburg) (Paris) School of Law Dr Sherry Fohr Dr Lisa Nadine Owen Professor Francesca Orsini (Converse College) (University of North Texas) South Asia Department Janet Leigh Foster Professor Olle Qvarnström Dr Ulrich Pagel (SOAS Alumna) (University of Lund) Department of the Study of Religions Dr Lynn Foulston Dr Pratapaditya Pal Dr Theodore Proferes (University of Wales) (Los Angeles) Department of the Study of Religions Dr Sin Fujinaga Dr Jérôme Petit Dr Peter D. Sharrock (Miyakonojō Kōsen, Japan) (Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris) Department of Art and Archaeology Dr Richard Fynes Samaṇī Pratibhaprajñā Professor Gurharpal Singh (De Montfort University, Leicester) (JVB Ladnun, SOAS Study of Religions) Department of the Study of Religions Professor Jonardon Ganeri Prof Shahid Rahman Dr Renate Söhnen-Thieme (Sussex University) (University of Lille) South Asia Department Dr Jonathan Geen Dr Josephine Reynell EXTERNAL MEMBERS (University of Western Ontario) (Oxford University) Paul Dundas Dr Marie-Hélène Gorisse Susan Roach (University of Edinburgh) (University of Lille) (SOAS Study of Religions) Dr William Johnson Professor Phyllis Granoff Dr Sreeramula Rajeswara Sarma (University of Cardiff) (Yale University) (Düsseldorf) ASSOCIATE MEMBERS John Guy Dr Fabien Schang (Metropolitan Museum of Art) (State University of Moscow) Dr Naomi Appleton (University of Cardiff) Professor Julia Hegewald Dr Maria Schetelich (University of Bonn) (University of Leipzig) Professor Lawrence A. Babb (Amherst College) Professor Dharmacand Jain Dr Shalini Sinha (Jai Narain Vyas University, Jodhpur) (SOAS Alumna, University of Reading) Professor Nalini Balbir (Sorbonne Nouvelle) Professor Laxmi Chandra Jain Dr Atul Shah (Jabalpur) (University Campus Sufflok) Professor Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw) Professor Prem Suman Jain Dr Jayandra Soni ( ) (University of Marburg) Professor Satya Ranjan Banerjee Bāhubali Prākṛt Vidyāpīṭh, Śravaṇabeḷagoḷa (University of Kolkata) Professor Rishabh Chandra Jain Dr Luitgard Soni (Muzaffarpur University) (University of Marburg) Nicholas Barnard (Victoria and Albert Museum) Dr Sagarmal Jain Dr Herman Tieken (Pracya Vidyapeeth, Shajapur) (Institut Kern, Universiteit Leiden) Dr Rohit Barot (University of Bristol) Professor Padmanabh S. Jaini Professor Maruti Nandan P. Tiwari (UC Berkeley) (Banaras Hindu University) Professor Bansidhar Bhatt (University of Münster) Dr M. Whitney Kelting Dr Himal Trikha (Northeastern University Boston) (Austrian Academy of Sciences) Professor Jagat Ram Bhattacharyya (Viśva-Bhāratī-University, Śāntiniketan) Dr Laurent Keiff Dr Tomoyuki Uno (University of Lille) (Chikushi Jogakuen University) Professor Willem Bollée (University of Heidelberg) Dr Kornelius Krümpelmann Dr Anne Vallely (Münster) (University of Ottawa) Professor Frank van den Bossche (University of Ghent) Dr Hawon Ku Kenji Watanabe (Seoul National University) (Tokyo) Professor Torkel Brekke (University of Oslo) Dr James Laidlaw Dr Kristi L. Wiley (University of Cambridge) (University of California Berkeley) Professor Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne) Dr Basile Leclère Professor Michael Willis (University of Lyon) (British Museum) Professor Christopher Key Chapple (Loyola University, Los Angeles) Dr Jeffery Long Professor Robert Zydenbos (Elizabethtown College) (University of Munich) Professor Christine Chojnacki (University of Lyon) 2 CoJS Newsletter • March 2016 • Issue 11 Jaina Studies NEWSLETTER OF THE CENTRE OF JAINA STUDIES Contents: 4 Letter from the Chair Conferences and News 5 Jainism and Science: Programme 6 Jainism and Science: Abstracts 9 Jainism and Buddhism: SOAS Jaina Studies Workshop 2017 10 Jaina Tantra: SOAS Jaina Studies Workshop 2015 16 Gyan Sagar Science Foundation 17 Jains and the Other: Understanding Religious Identities 19 Jaina Studies at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference 22 Papers on Jainism at the ICEMLNI 24 Jain Modernities, Jain Meditation and Jain Minority Politics Research 28 A Jaina Mendicant Council 32 Layers of Composition in the Kesi-Goyamijja Dialogue (Uttarajjhāyā 23) 33 Supporting Prakrit at SOAS 34 Early Statements Relating to the Lay Community in the Śvetāmbara Jain Canon 38 Causality and Pañca-Kāraṇa-Samavāya 41 Jaina Mathematics and Cosmology 44 Jain Art at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 46 Victoria & Albert Museum Jain Art Fund 46 Jaina Domestic Shrine at the Dahlem Museum, Berlin 48 Jaina Studies of Georg Bühler Publications 52 Jaina Studies Series (Harrassowitz) 53 International Journal of Jaina Studies 54 International Journal of Jaina Studies (Online) 54 Digital Resources in Jaina Studies at SOAS Jaina Studies at the University of London 55 Jaina Studies at the University of London On the Cover Detail: Maharaja Ranjit Singh in a bazaar Gouache on paper, 1840 – 1845 On loan from Sir Howard Hodgkin LI118.110 Image © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. 3 CoJS Newsletter • March 2016 • Issue 11 Letter from the Chair Dear Friends, For once we can take respite, just for a moment, to celebrate the harvest of some of the fruits of our labour. In 2015 three new volumes appeared in the CoJS edited series Routledge Advances in Jaina Studies: Piotr Balcerowicz’ monograph Early Asceticism in India: Ajīvikism and Jainism, and two edited volumes: Jaina Yoga, edited by Christopher Key Chapple, and Jaina Scriptures and Philosophy, a work dedicated to Willem B. Bollée, edited by Peter Flügel and Olle Qvarnström. Moreover, the first volume of the new Jaina Studies Series of Harrassowitz is Johannes Klatt’s encyclopaedic bio-bibliographical work Jaina-Onomasticon, due to appear 124 years after he stopped working on the manuscript in 1892. The fact that half of this issue comprises reports on papers delivered at academic congresses reflects the busy conference calendar in Jaina Studies in 2015: Tine Vekemans on ‘Jaina Tantra’ at SOAS, Ellen Gough on ‘Jains and the Other’ at Yale, Juan Wu on ‘Jaina Studies at the 16th World Sanskrit Conference, Bangkok 2015’, Tillo Detige on Papers on Jainism at the ‘12th International Conference on Early Modern Literatures in North India’ in Lausanne, and Andrea Luithle-Hardenberg on ‘Jain Studies at the Annual Meeting of the AAR 2015’, cover not even all of the many academic conferences on Jainism around the world. The second half of this issue offers research reports on the compositional structure of Uttarajjhāyā 23, the 6th monastic council of the Sthānakavāsī Śramaṇasaṅgha, and on recent PhD theses in Jaina Studies: Shweta Jain (Jodhpur) on Causality and Pañca- Kāraṇa-Samavāya, Andrew More (Yale) on Early Statements Relating to the Lay Community in the Śvetāmbara Jain Canon, Amruta Chintaman Natu (BORI) on Jaina Studies of Georg Bühler, and Catherine Morice-Singh (Paris) on Numbers and Algorithms in the Gaṇitasārasaṃgraha and the Tiloyapaṇṇattī. If this should not be interesting enough, Andrew Topsfield’s visually compelling report on Jain Art in the Ashmolean Museum Oxford, which kindly offered a photo of the wonderful historical painting of a Sthānakavāsī monk in the Bazaar of Lahore (possibly Amarasiṃha) for the cover of the present volume, and Anupama Delacour’s report on another wooden Jaina domestic shrine, at the Dahlem Museum in Berlin, will surely draw the attention of readers who are eager to learn more about the rich heritage of the ancient Jaina tradition. One aspect of Jainism that is still neglected as a subject of scholarship, though not as a subject of speculation, is the relationship between Jainism and Science which the 18th Jaina Studies Workshop at SOAS explores. The study of most subjects pertaining to Jainism would not be possible without some knowledge of Prakrit. Hence, we should praise the imaginative initiative of SOAS PhD Candidate Adrian Plau to raise funds for the teaching of this niche subject which would not survive in the long run otherwise. I commend volume 11 to you! Peter Flügel GyanSagar Foundation delegates' meeting in 2015 with Director of SOAS Professor Paul Webley (1953-2016). 4 CoJS Newsletter • March 2016 • Issue 11 The 16th Annual Jaina Lecture Newly Discovered Jaina Mathematical Manuscripts and their Content Anupam Jain (Government Degree College, Sanwer, Indore) Friday 18 March 2016 18.00-19.30 Brunei Gallery Lecture Theatre 19.30 Reception Brunei