Message to the Jain Community from Gareth Thomas MP I am writing to you following the celebration of Lord Mahavir’s birth anniversary. I hope that you were blessed to be able to spend time with loved ones on this most auspicious of days, even if that was via ‘Zoom’ or ‘Skype’ or “old style”[…]
Category Archives: Education
Time to Celebrate the Establishment of an Endowed Professorship in Jain Studies On December 21st, 2017, with a donation of US$ eight hundred thousand by a few philanthropist Jains in Los Angeles and Jain Center of Southern California in Los Angeles established the Bhagwan Mallinath Endowed Professorship in Jain Studies at Loyola Marymount University (one of the[…]
The John P Clay Graduate Scholarship in Manuscript and Text Cultures – Sanskrit – at The Queen’s College, Oxford The Queen’s College, Oxford is offering, beginning in Michaelmas Term 2018, a fully-funded graduate scholarship for up to a maximum of three years for a DPhil student in Oriental Studies whose research focuses on Manuscript and[…]
This year, Institute’s Education Team was invited by three Jain organisations in the UK for various activities for Paryushan Parva. Pre-Paryushan Activities IOJ Education Team was invited by two organisations to conduct pre-Paryushan workshops to prepare the congregations for Paryushan Parva. Both were held during the weekend preceding Paryushan. The first one was held on[…]
The Jain Education Team of IOJ presented a thought provoking and interactive lecture on ‘Jainism and Science’ at South London Oshwal Mahajanwadi on Friday 7th July 2017 between 8.00 – 10.00pm. The well attended talk delivered by Shruti Malde discussed how Jain philosophy is similar to science in that it gives us logical answers to existential questions like:[…]
On 2nd November 2016, five members from different Jain organisations, travelled from London to Vatican City at the invitation of the Pontifical Council for Inter-religious Dialogue (PCID) to attend a general Audience with HH Pope Francis on the following day. The group was welcomed by Reverend Father Santiago who is in charge of also the[…]
Press Release June 2016 : 16 June 2016, by Kaete Hamburger Kolleg: Dynamics in the History of Religions between Asia and Europe Bochum, Germany – Every year internationally renowned scholars from the broad range of fields within humanities are invited to conduct their research at one of the ten international Kaete Hamburger Centres in Germany. Funded[…]
August 12th 2015 will prove to be a unique and historic day for the study of Indic Religions. Three Academic Chairs were established on this auspicious day, namely the Chairs for Jainism, Sikhism and Hinduism at the University of California at Irvine (a suburb of Los Angeles). August 12, 2015 was both a[…]
The Institute of jainology’s Education Team in association with Oshwal Association of the UK’s North West Area held a interactive workshop on ‘Practical Jainism’ on Sunday 19th July at the EKTA Centre, Kingsbury NW London. This five hour program had been well publicised and was attended by over 150 people ranging in age from 6[…]