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Jain Nuns in New Jersey: Mobile Ascetics, Mobilizing Jainism

The Indian diaspora is huge, in the US alone, there are estimated to be over two million Indian Americans. For the past three years, two Jain nuns from Ladnun, Rajasthan have been traveling to and residing in Iselin, New Jersey to teach and live as spiritual advisors within a diasporic Jain community. (more)

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Jiva Relatedness and Relationships: Forms of Becoming

Nina Mehta

In Jain philosophy, souls attach to bodies, flexible in size and scope, so that the same soul can fit inside a hurricane and the uprooted tree that lays in its wake; souls move through, and sometimes from, the forms of a whale, an ant, a human, a raindrop. These souls change, and the bodies change, but they all exist, always. (more)