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SUMMARY:PhD Defence - 'Eternal Salutations'\, Tillo Detige
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DESCRIPTION:Tillo Detige presents and defends his doctoral dissertation\, 
 'Eternal Salutations: Memorials of Digambara Jaina Ascetic Lineages from W
 estern India'\, the outcome of a research project supervised at CERES by P
 rof. Jessie Pons from 2020 to 2024. The event is open to the general publi
 c\, and all are welcome to attend.\n\nBuilt around a survey of funerary mo
 numents and an analysis of their epigraphic\, architectural\, iconographic
 \, and ritual aspects\, the dissertation presents a study of Digambara Jai
 na ascetic lineages flourishing in Western and Central India during the Su
 ltanate (1206-1526 CE) and Mughal (1526-1857 CE) periods. The bhaṭṭār
 akas which led the Digambara mendicant lineages at the time are now often 
 conceived of as mere ‘clerics’ or ‘corrupted ascetics’. Memorials 
 and other sources however make it clear that the bhaṭṭārakas were ven
 erated as paramount ascetics and led sometimes considerably large mendican
 t communities. The remaining memorials are also uniquely helpful in recons
 tructing the geographical distribution of the ascetic lineages and studyin
 g their subsequent relocations between various towns and regions. Far from
  fleeing from the Indo-Muslim polities\, bhaṭṭārakas often seem to ha
 ve been attracted to them\, undoubtedly following in the wake of lay commu
 nities migrating there in search of professional opportunities. These find
 ings debunk notions prevalent both in prior scholarship and among contempo
 rary Jains concerning the decline of Jain and other South Asian religious 
 traditions due to persecutions by supposedly fanatical\, Islamic rulers. A
 lthough often long abandoned and left to dilapidate\, Digambara memorials 
 stand to remind us that Jaina communities flourished\, statt withered\, in
  the Indo-Muslim states.\n\nThe doctoral defence committee consists of:\n\
 n\n	Prof. Tatjana Scheffler (Committee chair\, RUB\, Faculty of Philology)
 \n	Prof. Jessie Pons (first supervisor\, RUB\, CERES)\n	Prof. John Cort (s
 econd supervisor\, Denison University)\n	Prof. Claire Maes (external exami
 nator\, Tübingen University)\n	Prof. Carmen Meinert (internal examinator\
 , RUB\, CERES)\n	Dr. Patrick Krüger (recording secretary\, RUB\, CERES)\n
LOCATION:CERES-Palais\, Raum "Turfan" (0.13)
URL:https://ceres.rub.de/de/events/doctoral-defence-eternal-salutations-ti
 llo-detige/
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