Padmanabh Jaini
Indian-born American scholar of Jainism and Buddhism
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United States. He was from a Digambar Jain family; however he was equally familiar with both the Digambara and Svetambara forms of Jainism. He has taught at the Banaras Hindu University, the School of Oriental and African Studies , the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he retired in 1994. Jaini was the author of several books and papers. His best known work is The Jaina Path of Purification . Some of his major articles have been published under these titles: The Collected Papers on Jaina Studies and Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies . He died on 25 May 2021 at Berkeley at age 97.
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- The Jaina path of purification (1980) (152)
- Gender and Salvation: Jaina Debates on the Spiritual Liberation of Women (1991) (35)
- On the Sarvajñatva (Omniscience) of Mahāvīra and the Buddha (1974) (14)
- Collected Papers on Jaina Studies (2000) (12)
- The Vaibhasika theory of words and meanings (1959) (11)
- The Story of Sudhana and Manoharā: An Analysis of The Texts and the Borobudur Reliefs (1966) (9)
- Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies (2001) (8)
- That which is : Tattvārtha Sūtra (1994) (8)
- Jaina monks from Mathura: literary evidence for their identification on Kuṣāṇa sculptures (1995) (6)
- Jina Ṛṣabha as an avatāra of Viṣṇu (1977) (6)
- The Assembly of Listeners: Is there a popular Jainism? (1991) (5)
- Buddha's Prolongation of Life (1958) (5)
- Ākāravattārasutta: An ‘apocryphal’ sutta from Thailand (1992) (4)
- Mahādibbamanta: a paritta manuscript from Cambodia (1965) (4)
- Paññāsa-jātaka, or, Zimme Paṇṇāsa (in the Burmese recension) (1986) (3)
- The Ālokā of Haribhadra and the Sāratamā of Ratnākaraśānti: a Comparative Study of the Two Commentaries of the Aṣṭasāhasrikā (1972) (3)
- Apocryphal birth-stories (Paññāsa-jātaka) (1985) (3)
- The Development of the Theory of the Viprayukta-Saṃskāras (1959) (2)
- Āryāṣṭasāhasrikāyāḥ Prajñāpāramitāyāḥ Sāratamākhyā pañjikā (1979) (2)
- Prajna and drsti in the Vaibhasika Abhidharma (2009) (1)
- Catalogue of the Jaina Manuscripts at Strasbourg . By Chandrabhal Tripathi. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1975. xviii, 425 pp. Frontispiece, Map, Plates, Notes, Appendixes. D.Gld. 96.00 (1977) (1)
- Umāsvāti on the Quality of Sukha (2003) (1)
- Jain Sectarian Debates (2008) (1)
- That which is : Tattvārtha Sūtra : with the combined commentaries of Umāsvāti/Umāsvāmi, Pūjyapāda and Siddhasenagaṇi (1994) (1)
- Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (2013) (1)
- Mahābhārata motifs in the Jaina Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa (1984) (1)
- Pāndava-Purāna of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (Continued) (1997) (1)
- Early history of education in Ceylon (1972) (1)
- Ram Sharan Sharma: Śudras in ancient India (a survey of the position of the lower orders down to circa a.d. 500) . [ii], v, [v], 318 pp. Delhi, etc.: Motilal Banarsidass, 1958. Rs. 15. (1960) (0)
- Jainism And Early Buddhism Essays In Honor Of (2016) (0)
- PĀNDAVA-PURĀNA OF VĀDICANDRA: TEXT AND TRANSLATION (1997) (0)
- Edward Conze: Buddhist thought in India: three phases of Buddhist philosophy . 302 pp. London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd.,, 1962. 36s. (1963) (0)
- Eighty-four points of contention (Cauryamsi bol) Between Svetambaras and Digambaras (Text and Translation) (2008) (0)
- Hiralal Jain (ed.): Sugandha-daśamī-kathā . (Jñānapīṭha Mūrtidevī Jaina Granthamālā, Apabhraṃśa Grantha, No. 6.) 19, 25, 100, 16 pp., front., 48 plates. Varanasi: Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1966. Rs. 11. (1968) (0)
- Christianity and Jainism : an interfaith dialogue (2009) (0)
- Milinda-Ṭīkā@@@Milinda-Tika (1963) (0)
- Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (Continued from Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 42, Issue 3, 1913) (2013) (0)
- Hiralal Shastri (ed. and tr.): Karmaprakriti of Shrī Nemichandra Āchārya. (Jñānapītha Mūrtidevī Jaina Granthamālā, Prākrit Grantha, No. 11.) 31, 158 pp., plate. Varanasi: Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1964. Rs. 6. (1966) (0)
- Presuppositions of India's Philosophies. By Karl H. Potter. pp. xi, 276. Prentice-Hall, London, 1963. 54s. (1964) (0)
- Subodhālaṅkāra (Porāṅa-ṭtīkā, Abhinava-ṭtīkā)@@@Subodhalankara (Porana-tika, Abhinava-tika) (2003) (0)
- Nagin J. Shah: Akalanka's criticism of Dharmakārti's philosophy: a study. (Laibhai Dalpatbhai Series, No.11.) xix, 316 pp. Ahmedabad: L.D. institute of Indolgy, 1967. Rs. 30. (1969) (0)
- Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (Continued from Journal of Indian Philosophy, Vol. 42, Issue 3, 1913) (2013) (0)
- Pāndava-Purāna of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (1999) (0)
- B. Ch. Chhabra and S. Sankaranarayanan (ed.): Bhojacharitra of Shrī Rājavallabha. (Jñānapīṭha Mūrtidevī Jaina Granthamālā, Sanskrit Grantha, No. 29.) ‘vii’, 191 pp., plate. Varanasi: Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1964. Rs.8 (1966) (0)
- Early History of Education in Ceylon. By U. D. Jayasekera. Colombo: Department of Cultural Affairs, Government of Ceylon, 1969. xx, 220 pp. Bibliography, Index. $3.45. (1972) (0)
- Punyavijayaji (comp): Catalogue of Sanskrit and Prakrit manuscripts: Muniāja šrī Punyavijayaji's collection.Part II. Edited by Ambalal P.Shah . (Lalbhai Dalpatbhai Series, No.5.) 12, 483–849, [i], 211–424 pp. Ahmedabad; [Lalbhai Dalpathai Bharatiya Sanskriti Vidyamandir], 1965. Rs.40. (1968) (0)
- Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (Continued from Journal of Indian Philosophy, 27:215–278, 1999) (2013) (0)
- K. Narain: An outline of Mādhva philosophy , viii, 231 pp. Allahabad: Udayana Publications, 1962. Rs. 30. (1964) (0)
- Jyoti Prasad Jain: The Jaina sources of the history of ancient India (100 B.C.—A.D. 900) . XV, 321 pp. Delhi: Munshi Ram Manohar Lal, 1964. Rs. 20. (1966) (0)
- Jaina Psychology. By Mohanlal Mehta. 220 pp. Published by the Sohanlal Jaindharma Pracāraka Samiti Amritsar (India), 1955. Rs. 8.00. (1958) (0)
- Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (Continued from Journal of Indian Philosophy, 27:215–278, 1999) (2013) (0)
- Subodhālaṅkāra, Porāṇa-ṭīkā (Mahāsāmi-ṭīkā) . Abhinava-ṭīkā (Nissaya) (2000) (0)
- The Sanskrit fragments of Vinītadeva's Triṃśikā-ṭīkā (1985) (0)
- Sanskrit Plays from Epic Sources . By H. W. Wells. Baroda, India: University of Baroda Press, 1968. xi, 258 pp. £ 3.00. (1970) (0)
- Pāṇḍava-Purāṇa of Vādicandra: Text and Translation (2013) (0)
- The Milindapañho with Milinda-Ṭīkā (1986) (0)
- Umāsvāti/Umāsvāmi's Tattvārtha Sūtra : that which is : with the combined commentaries of Umāsvāti/Umāsvāmi, Pūjyapāda and Siddhasenagaṇi (2007) (0)
- Gokul Chandra Jain (ed.): Satyaśāsan parīkṣā of Āchārya Vidyānandi . (Jñānapīṭha Mūrtidevī Jaina Granthamālā, Sanskrit Grantha, No. 30.) 48, [8], 34, 62 pp., plate. Varanasi: Bharatiya Jnanpith, 1964. Es. 5. (1966) (0)
- Presentations and Additions to the Library (1962) (0)
- "Abhidarma-dipa-Vibhasha-prabha-vritti": A critical edition and an introduction on its authorship and its relation to the "Abhidarma-kosa-Bhashya" of Vasubandhu. (1958) (0)
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