23RD LECTURE ON PASSIONS IN JAINISM BY PROF. KANTI MARDIA
The 23rd lecture is to be delivered on Overcoming the Inner Enemies: Jain Wisdom on Destructive Emotions in a
Modern World by Prof. Kanti Mardia on June 12, 2025.
The talk will discuss how passions play a leading role in the soul's accumulation of karmic matter, and will also assess that freedom from the passions is enlightenment itself, as it allows conquering the inner enemies.
The speaker, Prof. Kanti Mardia, is a distinguished statistician and Jain scholar. He is honored with an OBE for his academic and charitable work. He is Senior Research Professor at the University of Leeds, UK and former Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, UK (2013-2023). His publications include “Destructive Emotions: Jain Perspectives” (2024), “Living Jainism: An Ethical Science” (2013, co-authored with Aidan Rankin), and “The Scientific Foundations of Jainism” (1990).
The session chair, Prof. Christopher Chapple, is ISJS Advisor, and Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Being a specialist in the religions of India, he is an advisor to the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley), and the Jain Studies Center (SOAS, London). Prof. Chapple has published widely with more than 20 books including “Karma and Creativity” (1986), “Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions” (1993), “Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra's Yogadrstisamuccya” (2003), “Yoga and the Luminous” (2008), and “Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas” (2020).
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The talk will discuss how passions play a leading role in the soul's accumulation of karmic matter, and will also assess that freedom from the passions is enlightenment itself, as it allows conquering the inner enemies.
The speaker, Prof. Kanti Mardia, is a distinguished statistician and Jain scholar. He is honored with an OBE for his academic and charitable work. He is Senior Research Professor at the University of Leeds, UK and former Visiting Professor at the University of Oxford, UK (2013-2023). His publications include “Destructive Emotions: Jain Perspectives” (2024), “Living Jainism: An Ethical Science” (2013, co-authored with Aidan Rankin), and “The Scientific Foundations of Jainism” (1990).
The session chair, Prof. Christopher Chapple, is ISJS Advisor, and Doshi Professor of Indic and Comparative Theology at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Being a specialist in the religions of India, he is an advisor to the Forum on Religion and Ecology (Yale), the Dharma Academy of North America (Berkeley), and the Jain Studies Center (SOAS, London). Prof. Chapple has published widely with more than 20 books including “Karma and Creativity” (1986), “Nonviolence to Animals, Earth, and Self in Asian Traditions” (1993), “Reconciling Yogas: Haribhadra's Yogadrstisamuccya” (2003), “Yoga and the Luminous” (2008), and “Living Landscapes: Meditations on the Elements in Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain Yogas” (2020).
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