Paul Dundas
Routledge
Hardback
304
39022
Examining the history and intellectual activity of the medieval Svetambara Jain renunciant order the Tapa Gaccha this book focuses on the consolidation by the Tapa Gaccha from the thirteenth century of its identity as the leading Svetambara order. The author argues that this was variously effected by negotiating the primacy of lineage the posthumous divinity of one of its leaders the validity of styles of scriptural exegesis and customary practice and the status of non-Jains through the medium of chronicles and poetry and polemical engagement with other Jain orders and dissident elements within its own ranks.
Routledge
Hardback
304
39022
Examining the history and intellectual activity of the medieval Svetambara Jain renunciant order the Tapa Gaccha this book focuses on the consolidation by the Tapa Gaccha from the thirteenth century of its identity as the leading Svetambara order. The author argues that this was variously effected by negotiating the primacy of lineage the posthumous divinity of one of its leaders the validity of styles of scriptural exegesis and customary practice and the status of non-Jains through the medium of chronicles and poetry and polemical engagement with other Jain orders and dissident elements within its own ranks.