Members of the IoJ Education Team represented ONE JAIN at the 30th Anniversary celebration of the Battersea Park Peace Pagoda and inter-faith prayers for peace on Sunday 13th June 2015. The celebration was organised by Nipponzan Miyohoji, the Japanese Buddhist order, which built the Pagoda in 1985. Jainism has been represented at the peace prayers for[…]
Shrimati Kusumben was born to Maniben and Tejpar Vaghji Gudka in Kitui, Kenya where she spent her early childhood. In the absence of secondary education in Kitui, she moved to Mombasa and joined the Coast Girls’ School where she developed special interest in photography and was the official school photographer. In 1965 Kusumben was[…]
Welcome and Ahimsa Award Citation By Dr Mehool Sanghrajka Thursday 22nd January 2015 All photos from the event can be seen and ordered from here: http://www.oshwal.tv/hrhvisit/ Your Royal Highness, it is with the greatest pleasure that, on behalf of the Institute of Jainology, the Oshwal Association, and the here assembled leaders of the Jain Community, I[…]
22nd January 2015 All photos from the event can be seen and ordered from here: http://www.oshwal.tv/hrhvisit/ Marking the Institute of Jainology’s 25 years, a special Ahimsa Anniversary Award was presented to The Prince of Wales during his first-ever visit to the UK’s largest Jain Temple in Potters Bar. Chairman of the Institute of Jainology, Nemu Chandaria[…]
Mr Nemu Chandaria OBE is in India on a brief visit. Whilst in India he also attended the graduation ceremony of the candidates who had successfully completed a IoJ run course on Manuscriptology. He was interviewed by Times of India during the presentation ceremony and the article that appeared in the paper can be read[…]
Dr Harhad N Sanghrajka, Deputy Chair of IoJ has been invited by the Vatican to represent Jains worldwide and Jain philosophical view on the topic: COMPLEMENTARITY OF MAN & WOMAN IN MARRIAGE The full programmes for the Colloquium can be viewed by clicking HERE. His Holiness the Pope performed the opening of the colloquium The[…]
AHMEDABAD: Analyses contained in Dwadasharnayachakra – a fifth century AD Jain treatise on comparative Indian philosophy – are key points of reference for scholars from across the globe who come to Gujarat to study Indian religious thought, particularly that of Jainism. Few are aware though that this treasure was reported lost some 1,300 years ago.[…]
28th October, 2014 This is a quick update on the status of One JAIN meeting after exactly one month. As was agreed at this meeting, Institute is in the process of developing strategy for the next steps and expects to circulate this before the end of 2014. A follow-on meeting will be called soon[…]
Diwali Message from Prime Minister-David Cameron: As the world celebrates the festival of lights let us all embrace the true spirit of Diwali: the victory of light over darkness, and hope over despair. When we hear so much about tragedy and misery in our world it is at times like Diwali that we can reflect[…]
House of Commons – London, 15th October 2014 The Institute of Jainology, the international Jain organisation representing Jains at government and inter-faith levels, celebrated its 13th annual Ahimsa Day at the Grand Committee Room (or the second chamber) in the House of Commons with the theme ‘Ahimsa : Conscious Compassion’.The room was filled to capacity[…]