mokshamargasya netaram bhettaram karmabhubhrtam
jñataram vishvatattvanam vande tadgunalabdhaye

Jaya Jinendra

OPEN BOUNDARIES : JAIN COMMUNITIES AND CULTURE IN INDIAN HISTORY
Ed. John E. Cort
First published 1998 by State University of New York
Sri Garib Dass Oriental Series No. 250
1999 220 x 145 mm 264 pp
81 7030 635 3 Hardcover Rs. 280

"Open Boundaries" provides a new perspective on Jainism, one
of the world's oldest yet least-studied religions. Ten closely
focused studies investigate the interactions between Jains and
non-Jains in South Asian Society, with detailed studies of yoga,
poetry, tantra, theories of kingship, goddess worship, temple
ritual, polemical poetry, religious women and historiography.

Hence, this book views Jains within a South Asian context
resulting in a strikingly different portrait from standard models
represented in both traditional Western and Indian scholarship.

The 10 essays are as under:

"INTRODUCTION : Contested Jain Identities of Self and Other"
By John Cort

"Haribhadra's Analysis of Patanjala and Kula Yoga in the
Yogadrshtisamuccaya"
By Christopher Chapple

"Becoming Gautama : Mantra and History in Svetambara Jainism"
By Paul Dundas

"Hemacandra and Sanskrit Poetics"
By Gary Tubb

"Erotic Excess & Sexual Danger in the Civakacintamani"
By James Ryan

"Who is a King? Jain Narratives of Kingship in Medieval Western India"
By John Cort

"Sweetmeats or Corpses? Community, Conversion and Sacred Places"
By Michael Meister

"Ritual Culture & the Distinctiveness of Jainism"
By Lawrence Babb

"Sramanas Against the Tamil Way : Jains as Others in Tamil Saiva Literature"
By Indira Peterson

"Jain and Hindu Religious Women Religious Women in Early Medieval TamilNadu"
By Leslie Orr

"The Story of the Disappearing Jains : Retelling the Saiva-Jain Encounter in
Medieval South India"
By Richard Davis

Each essay is penetrating, lucid and impeccably researched. The
contributors are all leading scholars. An excellent book for the
student, scholar and layman.

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