Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini

PersonType	Category:Authors of English Works Category:Professors Emeritus
FirstName / namefirst	Padmanabh
LastName / namelast	Jaini
MainNamePhon	Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini
SortName	Jaini, Padmanabh Shrivarma
bio	Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini (October 23, 1923 - May 25, 2021) was an Indian born scholar of Jainism and Buddhism, living in Berkeley, California, United States. He was from a Digambar Jain family; however he was equally familiar with both the Digambara and Svetambara forms of Jainism. He has taught at the Banaras Hindu University, the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and at the University of California at Berkeley, from which he retired in 1994. Jaini was the author of several books and papers. His best known work is The Jaina Path of Purification (1979). Some of his major articles have been published under these titles: "The Collected Papers on Jaina Studies" (2000) and "Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies" (2001). He died on 25 May 2021 at Berkeley at age 97.
YearBirth	1923
YearDeath	2021
affiliation	University of California, Berkeley
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Full Name

Padmanabh Shrivarma Jaini

Affiliation

Emeritus, UC Berkeley

Other Information

Professor Jaini honored by the Padmanabh S. Jaini Graduate Student Award in Buddhist Studies

Padmanabh S. Jaini is Professor emeritus of Buddhist Studies and co-founder of the Group in Buddhist Studies. Before joining UC Berkeley in 1972, he taught at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London and at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He is the author of numerous monographs and articles on both Buddhism and Jainism. In the field of Buddhist Studies he is particularly well known for his work on Abhidharma and for his critical editions of the Abhidharmadīpa (a Vaibhāṣika treatise), the Sāratamā (a commentary on the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā), and a collection of apocryphal Jātakas, the Paññāsa-Jātaka, that appeared in four volumes (text and translation). His collected essays have appeared in two volumes, and, recently, he has been honored by a Festschrift (2003) with contributions on early Buddhism and Jainism.

Perhaps his best known work is the Jaina Path of Purification (1979). Some of his major articles have been published under titles: the Collected Papers on Jaina Studies (2000) and Collected Papers on Buddhist Studies (2001).

Professor Padmanabh S. Jaini lives in Berkeley.

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