Jain Samaj Manchester celebrated one of the holiest festivals of Jainism – Paryushan Maha Parva from 22nd August to 29th of August 2014 The eight days long festival, popularly known, as “Paryushan Maha Parva” is a festival of Dharma Aradhana. During these eight days Jains follow total non-violence, love, and compassion through fasting. The[…]
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Our earlier report (12th August) had mentioned the proposed visit by education team to Northampton and Leicester, we now have the following comments from OAUK’s Northampton Centre. Message from Ms Fulvanti Shah, organiser for the Northampton Centre: “Dear Prakashbhai What can I say, we are so wonderful !!! not. It was a pleasure and[…]
This year IoJ has responded to a wider net of requests to provide services during Paryushan Parva. The international visit this year will be to Kenya. Dr Harshad Sanghrajka, the Deputy Chair of the Institute will be travelling to Kenya and visiting both Nairobi & Mombasa. The Parva will be celebrated in Nairobi with the[…]
A statue of the Indian political leader Mahatma Gandhi is to be erected opposite the Houses of Parliament. The memorial will stand in Parliament Square alongside those of Abraham Lincoln and Nelson Mandela. Speaking on a trip to the Gandhi memorial in Delhi, Foreign Secretary William Hague said the statue would be a “fitting tribute”[…]
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[…]
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 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[…]
The 11th Ahimsa Day was celebrated by the Institute at its regular venue, the House of Commons, London Committee Room No 10 on 9th October 2013. The compére for the evening, Jyotsna Samji gave a warm welcome to everyone after introducing herself. She invited Pujya Samnijis to recite the auspicious Navkar mantra to start[…]
Ahimsa – Conscious Compassion – A Public Lecture at the British Library Melanie Joy, Ph.D., Ed.M. a Harvard-educated psychologist, professor of psychology and sociology at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, celebrated speaker, and the author of the award-winning primer on carnism “Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows” will be giving a presentation[…]