Early Asceticism in India Ājīvikism and Jainism 1st Edition by Piotr Balcerowicz 1138847135 9781138847132

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ISBN 10: 1138847135 

ISBN 13: 9781138847132

Author: Piotr Balcerowicz

Ājīvikism was once ranked one of the most important religions in India between the 4th and 2nd centuries BCE, after Buddhism, ‘Brahmanism’ and before Jainism, but is now a forgotten Indian religion. However, Jainism has remained an integral part of the religious landscape of South Asia, despite the common beginnings shared with Ājīvikism. By rediscovering, reconstructing, and examining the Ājīvikism doctrine, its art, origins and development, this book provides new insight into Ājīvikism, and discusses how this information enables us to better understand its impact on Jainism and its role in the development of Indian religion and philosophy. This book explains how, why and when Jainism developed its strikingly unique logic and epistemology and what historical and doctrinal factors prompted the ideas which later led to the formulation of the doctrine of multiplexity of reality (anekānta-vāda). It also provides answers to difficult passages of Buddhist Sāmañña-phala-sutta that baffled both Buddhist commentators and modern researchers. Offering clearer perspectives on the origins of Jainism the book will be an invaluable contribution to Jaina Studies, Asian Religion and Religious History.

Table of contents:

1. Introduction

2. The Encounter

3. Gośāla as a’Jaina’Teacher

4. Souls and Colours

5. Divination and Foretelling the Future

6. Common Set of Early Scriptures

7. Common Cosmology

8. Gośāla’s First Teaching and Vardhamāna’s First Ascetic Experiences

9. The Finalities, Death and Sallekhanā

10. Drinkables, Undrinkables and the Waters of the Sāmañña-phala-sutta

11. Ājīvikas, Pottery and Pots

12. Determinism, Ājīvikas and Jainism

13. Early Anekânta-vāda and the Three Figures

14. Ājīvikas, Trairāśikas, Jainas

15. The Beginnings of the Sapta-bhaṅgī

16. Early Epistemological Devices and the Beginnings of Jaina Logic

17. The Anekânta-vāda and the Ājīvikas

18. Traces of the Anekânta in Pali Buddhist Literature?

19. A Religious Centre and the Art of the Ājīvikas

20. Three Traditions: Pārśva, Gośāla, Mahāvīra

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