Admissions for ISSJS2008

We are pleased to announce a tremendous response from scholars to attend the two months program of ISSJS2008. The selection has since been made. In all 18 scholars shall attend the two months program as follows:
USA 12
Canada 1
Cuba 2
Thailand 2
Philippines 1
Total 18

We thank all the applicants who applied for admission to ISSJS2008 and look forward to an academically rewarding summer for them in India.
For the one month program, the selection process is underway and we expect 16 to 18 undergraduates from Canada and USA to attend ISSJS 2008.

Admissions for ISSJS2009
We encourage aspiring applicants to start sending their applications for ISSJS2009. Even though the last date for such applications is January 1st 2009, we encourage scholars to send their applications as soon as possible to the following:
For two months program
Mr. Vatsa Kumar
Director Office of Academic affairs ISJS
1810 Bayridge Blvd.
Bay City, Texas 77414 USA. Tel: +1 979 244 4193
Email:vatsakumar@att.net or info@jainstudies.org.

For details and applications please visit ADMISSIONS on Home page.

For one month program:
Prof Anne Vallely
Dept of Religious Studies
University of Ottawa
70 Laurier OTTAWA K1B6N5 ON Canada
Email: avallely@uottawa.ca
And info@jainstudies.org
For details please visit: www.sici.org/shastri/english/jain%20summer%20programme.htm.

For forms and other instructions, please visit ADMISSIONS on Home page.

Addition to management and staff of ISSJS.
ISSJS is privileged to welcome the following four key persons on board to provide better services, increase its activities and upgrade the academic content of the summer schools.

Mr. Yogendra Jain , an IT business man and a devout Jain practitioner cum socialite has joined the Governing council of the school. He brings with him his proven acumen in IT technology; teaching and publishing Jain philosophy to Jains in USA. His book ‘Jain way of life’ has won accolades and is already in the second print. He had been coordinating the program with the Pluralism project of Harvard and instrumental in design of the brochures and the website. We welcome him to ISSJS.

Mr. Vatsa Kumar, an engineer by profession and involved in promoting Indian art, culture, architecture, music, dance and theater for the last 40 years in USA. He is a member and president of a number of non profit organizations in Houston Texas and is keen to promote Jain art, culture, architecture, music, dance and theater in association with ISSJS. We welcome him to ISSJS as Director of office Admission affairs.

Prof. Jagmohan Humar, distinguished Research Professor of Civil Engineering, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. He has published many technical papers and a book on Dynamics of Structures. He is a fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering. President of the Jain Society of Ottawa Carleton, Speaker at JAINA convention, Founder Director of a Women Empowerment Project in India, Trustee for the construction and operation of a unique outdoor “Samavsaran” replica in Udaipur India. We welcome him to the academic council of ISSJS USA.

Ashakiran project
The project has taken off in December when Mahavir Vision Inc, promoters of ISJS in USA, finally selected the ten students and transferred the required money to cover the first years of boarding / lodging /tuition etc expenses related to their studies in class IX to Adinath Trust Aligarh India. We look forward to work closely with the trust and its chairman Shri Pawan Jain (Mangalyatan fame) to ensure success of this project and enhance its scope significantly.

Study Notes version 2 now available online for download by attending scholars. ISJS India has prepared compressive study notes, based on the lectures delivered during the last three summer schools, and covering almost 80 percent of the academic lectures in ISSJS2008. These notes have been prepared by the faculty members and the office of the director of ISJS India. ISJS feels they are a very good source of preparing the scholars prior to serious study of Jain philosophy, history, culture, art and way of life. We encourage students and scholars attending ISSJS2008 to download these and study prior to their arrival to ISSJS2008. We also request that the attending scholars bring these to India as they will be very handy to prepare before attending the academic sessions. For downloading, ISJS shall send the instructions to individual scholar. Other scholars, interested in downloading and studying these notes are welcome to contact svana@vsnl.com or scjain@earthlink.net for details.

New initiatives of ISSJS in India in the offing: ISJS India has identified three parts of India with significant Jain population, namely Bundelkhand (Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh), Indore and surrounding areas (MP), and Delhi and vicinity as the areas where significant anthropological studies have not been conducted so far. Most of the studies published overseas relate to Gujarat and western Rajasthan (partially Jaipur also).

ISJS India invites intention of interest from renowned Jain scholars in North America and Europe to send their proposals to conduct such studies and publish them in the form of books. ISJS India is mobilizing finances to cover the Indian expenses of the scholars along with providing field study staff for such studies. Please send your intent to the director ISJS India email svana@vsnl.com.

ISJS India is also planning to organize a series of seminars in India on subjects like Lifestyle issues and Jaina response, Socio-economic issue and Jaina response etc. Announcements shall be made in due course of time.