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Title:Jainism, Volume 2 (HB @ PB Price) : The World of Conquerors
Author:Natubhai Shah
ISBN:1898723974 : 9781898723974
Illustrations:b/w illus
Format:Hardback
Size:155x230mm
Pages:300
Weight: .617 Kg.
Published:Sussex Academic Press - January 2002
List Price: 19.95 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Philosophy of religion: Jainism


The first comprehensive study of Jainism to be published in the West.

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; Sacred Literature; Jain Scriptures and their Four Divisions; Modern and Translated Literature; The Jain View of the Universe; The Cosmos; Jain Concepts of the End of the World; The Six Realities; Jain Philosophy; Philosophical Aspects; Jiva; Ajiva; Nine Real Entities; Karma; Relativism; Spiritual Development; Jain Logic; Jain Art of Reasoning; Jain Psychology and the Theory of Knowledge; Sensory Knowledge; Scriptural Knowledge; Supernormal Forms of Knowledge ; The Valid Sources of Knowledge ; The Concept of the Soul; Science and Jainism; Science and Religion; Physics; Chemistry and Atomic Theory; Biology; Botany; Zoology; Medical Sciences; Mathematics; Astronomy; Astrology ; Jain Heritage; Jain Art and Architecture; Temples and Places of Pilgrimage; Jain Institutions; The World's Spiritual Quest; Jainism and Other Faiths; Eastern Faiths; Western Faiths; Conclusions; Right Faith, Right Knowledge, Right Conduct; Glossary; Index.