Jain eLibrary DVD Project Announcement

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With Warm Regards

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Pravin and Arti Shah and
Members of Jaina Education and Jain eLibrary Project Committee
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I will be in Ahmedabad India from January 2, 2010 to January 24, 2010
Ph. +91 93282 45158 Mobile,� +91 79 2674 0307 Home

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Jain eLibrary DVD Project

Over the past six months, several Jain �ch�ryas, monks and nuns have indicated that the eLibrary committee should make all eLibrary books available on CD/DVDs.� It is very difficult for them to request Jain communities to download many books from eLibrary website for their studies.�

We are very happy to inform you that we have completed the eLibrary DVD project. �The eLibrary DVD package will be available from January 3, 2010 in India (we plan to publish the same package in USA in March 2010).

The eLibrary DVD package includes a set of 4 DVDs which contain about 2000 Jain books (700,000 pages of Jain literature) in pdf files as follows:

A 100 page catalogue is included which lists all books, their file names, number of pages of each book, and DVD number indicating in which DVD the book is available.

Important Notice

The eLibrary DVDs are to be used only for personal, private and individual use only.� This is important due to copyrights of authors/publishers of some of the books. You are not permitted to copy these DVDs for any private or public circulation or to put the contents of the DVDs on your website or on any other public display.

We request you to respect the above conditions in the true spirit of Jain religion.� We assure you that we do not make any profit on any of the Jaina Education project.� All of us are volunteer workers.� The entire eLibrary project is funded through contribution received from America and around the world.

Dedication of eLibrary DVDs to Muni Shri Jambu Vijayji Mah�r�j S�heb:

The eLibrary DVD project is dedicated to Pujya Muni Shri Jambuvijayji Mah�r�j S�heb.� Muni Shri Jambu Vijayji was a pioneer supporter of Jaina Education work and Jain eLibrary activities.� He made all his Jain literature work available for eLibrary in the beginning phase of the project.� My acquaintance with Muni Shri was from 1992 and since then I visited him almost every year and also consulted him with regards to several Jaina education projects over the phone several times every year.

We have organized two different dedication programs in India as follows:

Dedication Program:

����������� Date - January 2, 2010 - Saturday - 4:00 PM
����������� Place - Shri Samavasaran Derasar (across from Shri Babu�s temple) - Palitana

The function will be held at Shri Samavashan Temple at the foothill of Mount Shatrunjaya, Palitana.�

We will perform Arpan Vidhi (dedication) of the eLibrary DVDs at the feet of Tirthankar idol, to Shri Sarsvati Devi, and at the feet of Muni Shri Jambuvijayji�s portrait.� After this program we will make the DVD package available to the general public.

All Jaina volunteer workers and some other guests at the Palitana medical camp are also invited to join the eLibrary dedication function.� The program coordinator is Shri Anilbhai Gandhi of Ahmedabad Ph, ��91 79 2662 0975, 98790 74939M and Dr. Dhiraj Shah of USA +91 97697 07010

Arpan of eLibrary DVDs to the Disciples of Muni Shri Jambu Vijayji:

����������� Date - January 10, 2010 - Sunday - 10:30 AM
����������� Place - Panchasara Parshvanath Yatrik Jain Bhavan, Pipala Shera, Patan Gujarat

We will do Arpan of DVD package to the Disciples of Muni Shri Jambuvijayji; Panyas Shri Pundarik-ratna Vijayji, Panyas Shri Dharma-ghosh Vijayji, Muni Shri Dharma-chandra Vijayji, Muni Shri Mahavideh Vijayji, Pujya Sadhvi Shri Jinendra-prabha-shriji, and Sadhvi Shri Chandanbalaji.

The program will be attended by Shri Pratapbhai Bhogilal, Vice-chancellor Dr. K. K. Shah, Padma Shri Kumarpal Desai, Pandit Dr. Shri Jitendrabhai B. Shah, Dr. Bipinbhai Doshi and many other dignitaries from India, America, and other parts of the world.� The program coordinator is Shri Yatinbhai V. Shah of Patan - Ph. +91 98240 65376, +91 94276 78245.

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Purchase of eLibrary DVD Package within India

Total cost of 4 DVD package and catalogue������ Rs. 400.

Shipping charges within India���� ���������� ����������� Rs. 200

You can buy the eLibrary DVDs at the following address from January 6, 2010.� If we need to ship within India, please send the money order or check in the name of Sudesh Shah only.

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Purchase of eLibrary DVD Package in USA, UK, and Other Countries

Total cost of DVD package including shipping charge = US $30.00

You can charge this amount to your credit card.� Please go to the eLibrary website (www.jainelibrary.org) to order (after January 15, 2010).� We will provide you the tracking number via e-mail and you will receive the package within two to three weeks from India to USA, Canada, UK etc. (Do not order more than 3 sets at a time, please).� Once we publish the package in USA, the cost will be significantly less.

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Education Committee�s Request for Your Support

Three weeks ago, we had sent a request to support Jaina Education activities financially.� We are in real need of your contributions to continue our activities. We are very happy to inform you that as of today we have received about $3700 in contributions.� The new contributors� list is given below.� Please continue to support us regularly.� We will provide the financial report in the next newsletter.� Also we will update the website within a few weeks to include the list of all the supporters.

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Please make your contribution check (US dollars) to JAINA - Education Committee and mail it at following address.� (Do not mail your contribution directly to the JAINA Headquarters.� The committee needs to keep proper record before it is deposited in the JAINA account).

C/o Pravin K. Shah
Jaina Education Committee
509 Carriage Woods Circle
Raleigh, NC 27607 USA
+1-919-859-4994
education@...

If you would like to contribute in Indian Rupees

Please make your contribution check to �Shree Gyanvardhak Charitable Trust� and mail it to the following address.� This trust does not charge any administrative fee to our education committee.

C/O Arihant Graphics
Nanakram Super Market, Shop No F-20,
Ramnagar, Sabarmati,
Ahmedabad - 380005 (Gujarat) India
+91 99988 90335
arihant.graf@...

Your contribution in dollars in USA and Indian Rupees in India is tax deductible..

With very high regards,

Pravin K. Shah
Jaina Education Committee Chairperson
+1 919 859 4994

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Jaina Education Committee�s Request for Your Support

The primary activities of Jaina Education Committee are as follows:� �

• To prepare, publish, and distribute Jain P�thash�l� Education Material to support all Jain Centers of North America.� We have about 3500 students attending P�thash�l� at various Jain centers in North America.
• To support YJA and YJP activities by raising funds to provide Educational Material during conventions.
• To support Jain Academic Bowl activities during Jaina conventions.
• To establish e-library website in order to provide reference literature to the P�thash�l� teachers, students, adult Sw�dhy�y groups, and Jain academicians.
• To support Jain summer school (ISSJS) program, Jain scholars and academicians by providing Jain educational material free of charge.

In addition to the above activities, the committee has supported, Jaina Exhibition committee, Jaina Interfaith committee, and published Asht�pad literature to support Asht�pad project of Jain Center of New York.

The success of Jaina Education P�thash�l� Books and eLibrary activities are well known to all you.� In fact all our activities are very successful.

In order to continue� the support and to fund the above activities, the committee needs to raise about $30,000 in contribution every year.

All education committee members are volunteer workers.� No committee members have charged any educational committee related expenses including traveling if any to Jaina Education Committee.� Your contribution is fully utilized (only 3% is deducted by Jaina as an administrative expense) to support the above mentioned activities.�

All JAINA committee accounts are maintained by the JAINA treasurer.� As of Oct 31, 2009, the committee has a balance of $9,521.48 in the JAINA account.�

We receive the contributions from you and we are very grateful of your support.� Please continue your generosity so that the committee can continue to work to fulfill Jain educational needs for our children of North America.� Many other countries have also benefited from our material.

The following is the consolidated list of all contributors ($100 and more) of current and past years.� Please review the list.� If you notice any error, please let us know.�

This list includes all contributors who have supported Jaina Education Books, JAB, YJA and YJP conventions, eLibrary activities, ISSJS supports, and those who have contributed to purchase P�thash�l� books to support their local P�thash�l�.� You can also contribute for any specific purpose or for the general education needs.

Federation of Jaina does not provide any financial help to any of its committees.� Each committee needs to raise its own fund to support its activities.� The education committee is severely in need of your support.� Your support is greatly appreciated.�

Please make your contribution check (US dollars) to JAINA - Education Committee and mail it at following address.� (Do not mail your contribution directly to the JAINA Headquarters.� The committee needs to keep proper record before it is deposited in the JAINA account).

C/o Pravin K. Shah
Jaina Education Committee
509 Carriage Woods Circle
Raleigh, NC 27607 USA
+1-919-859-4994
education@...

If you would like to contribute in Indian Rupees

Please make your contribution check to �Shree Gyanvardhak Charitable Trust� and mail it to the following address.� This trust does not charge any administrative fee to our education committee.

C/O Arihant Graphics
Nanakram Super Market, Shop No F-20,
Ramnagar, Sabarmati,
Ahmedabad - 380005 (Gujarat) India
+91 99988 90335
arihant.graf@...
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Your contribution in dollars in USA and Indian Rupees in India is tax deductible..

With very high regards,

Pravin K. Shah
Jaina Education Committee Chairperson
+1 919 859 4994

List of Contributors

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Early morning, Muni Shri Jambu Vijayji was traveling on foot along with other monks from Balotra (a town in Rajsthan) to Jesalmer and they were hit by a high speed truck.� Two munis, Jambuvijayji and Namaskarvijayji died in the accident and others are seriously injured. �Jambuvijayji was 87 years old.

A great loss not only to the entire Jain community but also to the entire South Asian Religion Research Scholars.

I do not have any further detail at this time but will keep you informed as we receive further information.

Pravin K. Shah
Jaina Education Committee
+1 919-859-4994
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A short summary of Muni Shri Jambuvijayji�s Scholarly Work

Muni Shri Jambuvijayaji continued the pioneering research work that was started by late Muni Shri Punyavijayji

Both Muni Shri Punyavijayji and Shri Jambuvijayji have worked all their life in the compilation and publication of our ancient Jain �gam literature and cataloging ancient Jain Jn�n Bhand�rs

Many learned scholars worked under the leadership of these two Munis in compilation and publication of our most authentic literary treasurer.� The partial list of such scholars are; Muni Shri Dharmachandvijay, Late Pundit Shri Bechardas Doshi, Late Pundit Shri Amrutlal Bhojak, Late Pundit Shri Dalsukh Malvania, Dr. Sagarmal Jain, Dr. Nagin Shah, Late Dr. Harivallabh Bhayani, Pundit Rupendra Pagariya, Pundit Suresh Sisodiya, Dr. V M Kulkarni, and Dr. Vasudevsharan Agrawal.

The most of their Scholarly Work (listed below) of these two Munis were published under Jain �gam Granth M�l� Series by Shri Mah�vir Jain Vidy�laya - Mumbai, Shri Bhogilal Laherchand Institute-Delhi and other institutes.

The Education Committee of Jaina has made all their literature available on Jain eLibrary website (www.jaineLibrary.org) in the form of E-Books.� Their literary work consist more than 25,000 pages.

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List of Books Published under Late Muni Shri Punya Vijayji and Shri Jambu Vijayji: