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 Encyclopaedia
of Jainism/edited by Nagendra Kr. Singh. New Delhi, Anmol, 2001,
30 volumes, 8089 p., ISBN 81-261-0691-3.
"This encyclopaedia is vast collection of
essays of more than thousand renowned Jaina scholars, philosophers,
historians, sociologists of the world dealing with various aspects
of Jainism: historical evolution of Jainism, Jain religio-philosophical
tradition, tradition of Tirthankaras, monks, nuns and Shravakas, myths
and legends, ethics and values, social system, political philosophy,
psychology, philosophy, religion, socio-economic aspects, cosmology,
ethics, mythology, non-violence, symbolism, art and architecture,
ascetic practices of purification, language and
literature—canonical and non-canonical, metaphysics of physics,
building architecture, epigraphy and inscriptions, archeology,
antiquities and monuments, fasts and festivals, rites and rituals,
tantricism, sacred Jaina centres, Tirthankaras’s life and
teachings, biography of Jaina philosophers, monks and nuns, cosmic
spirit, social, political, economic and cultural geography,
eschatological concept, chronology and history, comparative studies
of Jainism with other world religions, solution of environmental
crisis and peaceful coexistence of human being from the vast range
of research journals, magazines, seminars, conferences and congress
papers, dissertation notes, readers and other valuable but scattered
sources." (jacket) It contents are spread in 10 volumes.
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