Centre of Jaina Studies, School of Oriental & African Studies, London (SOAS) have announced a provisional program for the forthcoming 12th Jaina Studies Workshop and the details of 10th Annual Jain Lecture.
The two day workshop on Jaina Yoga will commence on 18 March at 6pm with the 10th Annual Jain Lecture.
The lecture titled “The Historical Development of the Jaina-Yoga System and the Impact of other Indian Yoga Systems on it”, will be delivered by Professor Sagarmal Jain of Parshvanath Research Institute, Varanasi.
All are invited to the workshop and to keep the event free of charge for all, SOAS will welcome any sponsorship which will be acknowledged in the conference brochure unless otherwise stated.
JAINA YOGA
The 12th Jaina Studies Workshop,
18-19 March 2010
SOAS, Brunei Gallery
Provisional Program
18 March 2010, 6-8 pm
The 10th Annual Jain Lecture, by Sagarmal Jain of Pārśvanāth Vidyāpīṭh, Varanasi
Lecture to be followed by a reception
“The Historical Development of the Jaina-Yoga System and the Impact of other Indian Yoga Systems on it: A Comparative and Critical Study “
19 March 2010, 9 am – 6 pm Workshop
Piotr Balcerowicz (University of Warsaw)
Extrasensory Perception (yogi-pratyakṣa) in Jainism and its Soteriological Implications
Bansidhar Bhatt (University of Münster)
Study in Meditational Techniques in Early Jainism
Johannes Bronkhorst (University of Lausanne)
Kundakunda versus Sāṃkhya on the Soul
John E. Cort (Denison University)
When Will I Meet Such a Guru? Images of the Yogī in Digambara Hymns
Christopher Key Chapple (Loyola University Los Angeles)
The Jaina Yogas of Haribhadra
Andrea R. Jain (Rice University, Houston)
Prekṣā: A Jain Form of Modern Yoga
Smita Kothari (University of Toronto)
A Case Study of Prekṣā Dhyāna and the Terāpanth
Jefferey Long (Elizabethtown College)
Yaśovijaya’s View of Yoga
Olle Qvarnström (Lund University)
On the Concept of Yoga in Jainism
Jayandra Soni (University of Marburg)
Yoga in Jaina Philosophical Works
For further Information please contact:
Dr Peter Flügel
Chair, Centre of Jaina Studies, Department of the Study of Religions,
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square,
London WC1H OXG
Tel.: (+44-20) 7898 4776
E-mail: pf8@soas.ac.uk
http://www.soas.ac.uk/jainastudies