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The two essays in this volume explore how monks in medieval India
and China wrote about themselves with their fellow monks. The
author translates and discusses biographies and autobiographies of
two Jain monks, who lives in the 11th and 14th century CE. The book
tells us how a community of Chinese Buddhists viewed the life of
the founder of their group, and how his biography reflected the
changes that the community underwent. The essays are the result of
a joint research project on religious biographies in Asia, carried
out with assistance from the Social Sciences and Humanities
Research Council of Canada.
The stories in this collection span almost one thousand years of
story-telling in India., Most originate in North India and all were
written by Jain Monks for the edification and amusement of the
faithful. Jain literature is both rich and varied. Stories were
told in verse and prose, in Sanskrit and in vernacular languages.
Some resemble simple folk tales while others are as sophisticated
as courtly romances. The stories in Jain literature are about holy
men and holy places, famous kings and courtiers and those not often
heard in ancient and medieval India - women and toiling villagers.
The treasures of India's heritage of story-telling are known to us
today mainly from these Jain stories which have been carefully
pre-served through the ages. The stories in The Clever Adulteress
have been translated by a renowned group of scholars from India,
North America and Europe. Each translator has chosen his or her
favourites from the vast treasures of Jain literature.
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