Members of the IoJ Education Team attended the 29th Anniversary celebration of the London Peace Pagoda in Battersea Park on Saturday, 21t June. A prayer ceremony is held each year and IoJ has had the pleasure of representing Jainism. Many faith organisations were represented and after a ceremonial start, each faith recited their prayer for[…]
Ahmedabad 19th June, 2014 The torch bearer of Gujarati tradition and culture Shree Shrenikbhai Kasturbhai Sheth passed away this morning at the age of 89. He was the well-known heir of the Gujarat Mahajan heritage, a leader, industrialist, trustee and director of countless institutions and organisations. Shree Shrenikbhai graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology[…]
Samani Charitra Prajna, Vice Chancellor of JVBU Ladnun, and Samani Aagam Prajna visited Berlin Center for Jaina Studies (CfJS) after their participation at a conference on interreligious dialogue, which occurred on May 7th, 2014 at St. Ottilien near Munich. At the University of Applied Sciences, a seminar on Jainism was held this semester by Patrick[…]
It was 19th May 1964 when Pope Paul VI instituted the “Secretariat for Non-Christians”, the forerunner of the Pontifical Council for Interreligious Dialogue (PCID) at The Holy See. Monday, 19th May 2014 was the Golden Anniversary celebration and the auditorium was filled by over 250 representatives from the Catholic Church as well as many other[…]
to commemorate The Birth of Bhagwan Mahavir. A Jain family in Kaula Lampur, Malaysia has been celebrating the Mahavir Janma Kalyanak for the past 17 years in increasing splendour each year and this year will be no different. It will be celebrated with great pomp and pageantry on Saturday, 12th April 2014 with a rath yatra. The family[…]
Institute of Jainology has been developing relationship with the Vatican since 1991 and this relationship is getting closer year on year. The Institute had initiated a visit by the Roman Catholic Archbishop in the UK to meet the Jain community at the Oshwal Centre, Potters Bar. Oshwal Association of the UK had hosted the visit[…]
BBC Radio journalist and presenter Ritula Shah,a member of the Jain community has won this years GG2 Media & Creative Arts Award. She was presented with the award at a ceremony in London on November 27th. The GG2 awards are now in their 15th year and are organised by the Asian Media and Marketing Group, the publishers of Garavi Gujarat.[…]
The combined efforts made by organisations interested in animal welfare and compassion, those wanting to protect our environment and to a smaller extent the Jain organisations are slowly but surely getting recognition and their efforts are beginning to bear fruits. The first noticeable effect is that the case for vegetarianism has now endorsed quite successfully[…]
Shantinatha Charitra – a text written in Sanskrit, that describes the life and times of Shantinatha, the 16th Jain Tirthankara has been included in the most prestigious list of the world’s greatest documents. Unesco’s world heritage body in June 2013 included the Indian entry in the Memory of the World Register 2013 and said “the story is of lasting[…]
The recent advances in medical technology have made it comparatively easy to transplant vital organs from one human body to another. Organ transplant has become almost a routine procedure in most hospitals. The demand for organ donors has grown considerably and the National Health Service in the UK has started a Organ Donor Register where[…]