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History, Scripture and Controversy in a Medieval Jain Sect Paperback - 2012
by Paul Dundas
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- Title History, Scripture and Controversy in a Medieval Jain Sect
- Author Paul Dundas
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 2012-05-08
- ISBN 9780415502153 / 0415502152
- Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.61 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 1.55 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 294.492
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Paperback / softback. New. Examining the history and intellectual activity of the medieval Svetambara Jain renunciant order, the Tapa Gaccha, this book focuses on the consolidation by the Tapa Gaccha from the thirteenth century of its identity as the leading Svetambara order. The author argues that this was variously effected by negotiating the primacy of lineage, the posthumous divinity of one of its leaders, the validity of styles of scriptural exegesis and customary practice and the status of non-Jains through the medium of chronicles and poetry and polemical engagement with other Jain orders and dissident elements within its own ranks. Drawing on largely unstudied primary sources, the author demonstrates how Tapa Gaccha writers created a sophisticated intellectual culture which was a vehicle for the maintenance of sectarian identity in the early modern period. The book explores issues which have been central to our understanding of many of the questions currently being asked about the…
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