Author | : Olle Qvarnström |
File Size | : 49,9 Mb |
Publisher | : Jain Publishing Company |
Language | : English |
Release Date | : 20 May 2024 |
ISBN | : 9780895819567 |
Pages | : 720 pages |
Jainism and Early Buddhism by Olle Qvarnström Book PDF Summary
A collection of papers presented at an international conference on Jainism and early Buddhism in honor of Prof. Padmanabh S. Jaini, organized and hosted by the Department of History of Religions at the University of Lund, Sweden in 1998. Prof. Jaini is professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies at University of California, Berkeley, California, USA and one of the foremost contemporary scholars of Buddhism and Jainism. The two part festschrift contains papers presented by thirty seven prominent scholars, covering a wide range of topics in both religions.