Paul Dundas

Research papers and conferences

• "Conversion to Jainism : Historical Perspectives" in R. Robinson and S. Clarke, Religious Conversion in India: Modes, Motivations, and Meanings, New Delhi: Oxford University Press 2003, pp. 125–48.
• "Haribhadra's Lalitavistara and the legend of Siddharsi's conversion to Jainism", in O. Qvarnstrom, Jainism and Early Buddhism: Essays in Honor of Padmanabh S. Jaini, Fremont: Asian Humanities Press 2003, 151–66.
• "Beyond Anekantavada: A Jain Approach to Religious Tolerance", in T. Sethia, Ahimsa, Anekanta and Jainism, New Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass 2004, 123–36.
• Il Jainismo: L'antica religione indiana della non-violenza; Prefazione di Raffaele Torella, Roma: Castelvecchi 2005.
• "A Non-Imperial Religion? Jainism in its 'Dark Age'", in P. Olivelle, Between the Empires: Society in India 300BCE-400BCE, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 383–414.
• "The Later Fortunes of Jamali", in P. Flugel, Studies in Jaina History and Culture: Disputes and dialogues, London and New York: Routledge 2006, pp. 33–60.

  Current and imminent projects

• A translation with commentary of Yasovijaya's Dvatrimsaddvatrimsika.
• A study of the historical representation of the Jain Pancanamaskara mantra, with particular reference to Yasovijaya's Arhadgita.
• A systematic investigation of the Sanskrit and Prakrit texts of the "Haribhadra corpus".