Padmanabh S. Jaini is a scholar of Jain and Buddhist studies at the University of California, Berkeley, and this University of California Press book translates and analyzes the Digambara and Svetambara texts debating whether a woman can attain liberation, the oldest formal doctrinal dispute between the two major Jain orders. Its strength is that Jaini both translates the relevant primary texts and provides scholarly analysis of the debate, making this the recognized authority for the topic within Jain studies. Its limit is that it is focused specifically on this one historical doctrinal dispute, so a claim about the current lived status of women across contemporary Jain communities more broadly needs a source addressing present-day practice rather than this textual-historical debate.
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AuthorPadmanabh S. Jaini
PublisherUniversity of California Press
Publication Year1991
URLhttps://archive.org/details/bub_gb_GRA-uoUFz3MC
Source TypeMonograph with translated texts
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Published by the University of California Press as Padmanabh S. Jaini's scholarly study with translated texts on Jaina debates over women's liberation, peer reviewed university press scholarship. NotesTranslates and analyses the Digambara and Svetambara texts on whether a woman can attain liberation; the scholarly authority on the oldest formal dispute between the two orders.
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This source names Digambara directly: "Press book translates and analyzes the Digambara and Svetambara texts debating whether a woman can attain liberation, the oldest formal doctrinal dispute between the two major Jain orders."
This source names Svetambara directly: "and analyzes the Digambara and Svetambara texts debating whether a woman can attain liberation, the oldest formal doctrinal dispute between the two major Jain orders."
Claims Backed By This Source (33 claims)
This source backs 33 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested. As cited relationships: 6 holds, 1 held Differently. Plus 7 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Beliefs & Restrictions, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Sources, 10 claims: 8 well-attested, 2 holds.
- Denominations, 5 claims: 2 holds, 1 held Differently, 2 general references.
- Doctrines, 4 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Virtues, 3 claims: 1 well-attested, 2 general references.
- Articles, 1 claims: 1 well-attested.
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