Gregory M. Clines

Jain Ramaya¿a Narratives (eBook, ePUB)

Moral Vision and Literary Innovation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book traces how and why Jain authors at different points in history rewrote the story of Rama and situates these texts within larger frameworks of South Asian religious history and literature. The book is a valuable contribution to the fields of Jain studies and religion and literature in premodern South Asia.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. April 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000584141
• Artikelnr.: 63580866

Autorenporträt

Gregory M. Clines is Assistant Professor of Religion at Trinity University, USA. His research focuses on early modern Digambara Jainism and Jain Ramayäa literature.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments



Note on Transliteration



List of Maps and Figures

1 Introduction: Jains in Ramayana Studies and Ramayanas in Jain Studies

PART I

2 Grief, Peace, and Moral Personhood in Ravisena's Padmapurana

PART II

3 Creating Clarity: Jinadasa Rewrites Ravisena

4 Recognizing Enemies, Internal and External: Exemplarity and the Moral Vision of Jinadasa's Padmapurana

PART III

5 From Padma to Ram: Language and Performance in Jinadasa's Ram Ras

6 Performance, Audience, and Quotidian Ethics in the Ram Ras

7 Concluding Thoughts



Appendix

Index

Rezensionen

"[...] Gregory M. Clines' monograph, Jain Ramayana Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation, provides a much-needed intervention in the study of Ramayanas. There, Clines aims to recast Jain Ramayanas as an internally diverse corpus of narratives. Each retelling responds to earlier Jain versions of the tale, as well as to a network of contemporaneous discourses. Such an argument could, of course, be proven in various ways. But given that Jainism has been misread as a religion concomitant with nonviolence and renunciation, Clines draws out the distinct visions of moral behaviour that each Jain Ramayana constructs. He argues that each Jain retelling expresses a range of ethical values that include, but go beyond, prescriptions of nonviolent and nonattached action voiced by Jain doctrinal and commentarial texts. [...] a generative book that opens new directions for Jain Ramayana studies." - Seema K. Chauhan, University of Oxford, UK, Reading Religion