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Jain religious artifacts collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS 710
Finding aid note: Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Content Description

Prayer and worship items of the Jain religion, including embroidered textiles, wooden folding cradle for sacred text, framed mantra text with deity sculpture, red painted metal tray with accompanying red box with red vessel inside, and more.

Dates

  • 2017

Conditions Governing Access

This material is open for research.

Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.

Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish from this material must be facilitated through the Woodson Research Center. Contact woodson@rice.edu for assistance.

Biographical / Historical

Jainism is an Indian religion teaching a path to spiritual purity and enlightenment through disciplined nonviolence (ahimsa, literally “noninjury”) to all living creatures. It began as a monastic religion. Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, Jainism is one of the three most ancient Indian religious traditions still in existence and an integral part of South Asian religious belief and practice. [Excerpted from https://www.britannica.com/topic/Jainism]

Extent

4 Linear Feet (2 - 3 ft. flat boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Overview

Prayer and worship items of the Jain religion, including embroidered textiles, wooden folding cradle for sacred text, framed mantra text with deity sculpture, red painted metal tray with accompanying red box with red vessel inside, and more.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated by Dr. Sulekh Jain, Chairman, Governing Council of International School for Jain Studies, in 2017.

Related Materials

Published books cataloged for general collection in Fondren Library, searchable in the Fondren catalog via this gift note "Gift of Dr. Sulekh and Ravi Jain."

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Source

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Guide to the Jain religious artifacts collection
Status
Completed
Author
Amanda Focke
Date
2018
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository

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Contact:
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA

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