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020 _a9780199796649
028 _aTechnical Bureau India Pvt.Ltd.
_b;E/261,Shastri Nagar Delhi-110052
_c;TB1096
_d;03/10/2019
082 _a294.4 COR
100 _aJohn E Cort
245 _aJains in the world
_b: religious values and ideology in India
_c/John E Cort
260 _aNew York
_b: Oxford University Press
_c, 2001.
300 _axii, 267 pages
_b : illustrations, maps
_c; 24 cm
365 _b3208
505 _a The ideology of the path to liberation -- Jains and Jainism in Patan -- Going to the temple: how to worship god -- Gifting and grace: patterns of lay-mendicant interaction -- Holy asceticism -- Remembrance and celebration: the Jain religious year -- Ideologies and realms of value.
520 _aThis book presents a detailed fieldwork-based study of the ancient Indian religion of Jainism. Drawing on field research in northern Gujarat and on the study of both ancient Sanskrit and Prakrit and modern vernacular Jain religious literature, John Cort provides a rounded portrait of the religion as it is practiced today
650 _aJainism--Doctrines
655 _aReligious life -- Jainism.
700 _aJohn E Cort
942 _cBOOK