Jain Academy Educational Research Centre Promotion Trust

Jain Philosophy Courses

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Certificate Course

One Year - Part Time - Once A Week - 4 Hours at 4 Different Center

  • UNIT I - ANCIENT INDIAN TRADITION
    1. Vedic Tradition: Sources, Antiquity and Salient Features.
    2. Buddhist Tradition: Sources, Antiquity and Salient Features.
    3. Jaina Tradition: Sources, Antiquity and Salient Features.
  • UNIT II - JAINA TRADITION
    1. Tirthankaras and Agamas.
    2. Major Jain Sects.
    3. Mythology: Shalakapurusa, Cosmology and Cycle of Time.
  • UNIT III - INTRODUCTION TO JAINA PHILOSOPHY
    1. Nav Tatvas: Bondage and Liberation, Theory of Karma and its Classification and Pancha Samavayas.
    2. Sad Dravyas.
    3. Five Types of Knowledge.
  • UNIT IV - RELIGION AND ETHICS
    1. Three Jewels and Jaina Ethics.
    2. Major World Religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Zoroastrianism.
    3. Anekantvada and its Applications.

Paper II - Jaina Religion, Society And Culture

  • UNIT I - JAINA SOCIAL STUCTURE
    1. Concept of Sangha and Sramanachara.
    2. Sravakachara and Pratimas.
    3. Anupreksha, Yoga and Meditation.
  • UNIT II - RITUALS AND PRACTICES
    1. Pancha Parameshthi - Navkar Mantra and Other daily recitations.
    2. Worship, Fasts and Festivals.
    3. Sallekhana.
  • UNIT III - CONTRIBUTION OF JAINAS TO INDIAN CULTURE
    1. Jaina Literature.
    2. Jaina Art and Architecture and Places of Pilgrimage.
    3. Vegetarianism.
  • UNIT IV - CONTEMPORARY JAINISM
    1. Gender issues and Status of Women.
    2. Jaina View about Caste and Class.
    3. Ahimsa, Environmental concerns and World Peace.

 

 

 

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About Us

Jain Academy Educational Research Centre Promotion Trust (JAERC-PT) is registered trust mainly for promotion of Jain Education & Research activities at University of Mumbai.

 

Initiated by Jain Academy (UK), JAERC-PT has established a permanent chair in the University of Mumbai in 2000. Shri Ramniklal

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