Table of Contents

Note on Language, Transliteration, and Names
Hymn to Pancasar Parsvanath
Introduction: On the Occasion of the Blessed Installation of the Lord
1. The Ideology of the Path to Liberation
2. Jains and Jainism in Patan
3. Going to the Temple: How to Worship God
4. Gifting and Grace: Patterns of Lay-Mendicant Interaction
5. Holy Asceticism
6. Remembrance and Celebration: The Jain Religious Year
7. Ideologies and Realms of Value
Hymn to Pancasar Parsvanath
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Professor and Director of the Department of Religion at Denison University. Author of Framing the Jina (November 2009; 218 copies)

Reviews

The scholarship is impressive ... this is a well-researched and interesting volume Gavin Flood, Times Literary Supplement