Articles on Manuscript Preservation Efforts
શીલભદ્ર વિદ્યાપુરુષ
By Vasant Parikh · Sambodhi, 2014
શીલભદ્ર વિદ્યાપુરુષ વસંત પરીખ શ્રી નગીનભાઈ સાચા અર્થમાં એક શીલભદ્ર વિદ્યાપુરુષ હતા. તેમની ચિરવિદાય સાથે ગુજરાતે પં.સુખલાલજી અને પં.શ્રી દલસુખભાઈ માલવણિયાની પ્રાજ્ઞ પુરુષોની પરંપરાની એક ઉજ્જવળ કડી ગુમાવી છે. શ્રી નગીનભાઈ સાથે મારે પાંચ દાયકાનો સંબંધ હતો એમની…
Jainism and the Western World
By Hermann Jacobi, Peter Flügel · Jinamanjari, 1998
Three views regarding the opening of Jain libraries: protest of reform-minded Jain laity against the illegitimate privileges of the yatis; efforts of monastic reformers to publish Jain scriptures; and Orientalist narrative of the western 'discovery’ of the…
Georg Bühler and the Western Discovery of Jain Temple Libraries
By Donald Clay Johnson · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1992
In his article “Georg Bühler and the Western Discovery of Jain Temple Libraries,” Donald Clay Johnson revisits the pioneering work of the nineteenth‑century Sanskritist and epigraphist Georg Bühler. Vidya Dehejia’s remark that India’s manuscript collections…
Muni Jinvijayaji - A Life-long Researcher
By Bhanwarmal Singhi · Jain Journal A Quarterly on Jainology, 1976
Muni Jinvijayaji (born Kishan Singh, 1888) emerged from humble origins in the Rajput village of Roopaheli to become one of the twentieth century’s most respected Jain scholars. After his father’s death he grew up under the tutelage of a yati and entered the…
The Jaina Education Fund Association, Mysore.
The Jaina Gazette, 1925
The Jaina Education Fund Association, Mysore, established in 1919, focuses on educational advancement, community upliftment, and preservation of Jaina heritage. It provides scholarships across four grades to support impoverished students, emphasizing…