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6: Applied Philosophy of Jainism Jains never tried to spread their religion outside the greater India. In the ancient Indian history, we have only few references regarding spread of Jainism outside the India, which show that in the East it was spread up to Suvarnadvīpa i.e. Jawa and Sumatra, in South up to Sri Lanka, in North up to present state of Nepal and its joining boundaries of Tibet, in the West present Pakistan and Afghanistan and their adjoining boundaries. All these were parts of the greater India in ancient times. But at present it has spread all over the world. From the point of view of new literature on Jainism, the 19th and 20th centuries have been of great importance. In this period, some new Jaina works were written as well translated in English, German, French and other languages, which definitely facilitated the people of different nations to learn about these three basic principles of Jainism as well as its rich cultural heritage. It is true that some foreign scholars, who visited India, experienced directly the 'Jaina way of living' but it was limited to very few scholars. It is only the 191h century when for the first time Jains moved to Africa and En-. gland for their livelihood and came in the direct contact with the nationals of these countries. Though Virachand Raghavji Gandhi visited America and attended the "Parliament of World Religions" at Chicago in 1893 and represented Jainism. But at that time there were no Jains in America. From the second half of the 20th century Jaina scholars, engineers, doctors and other professionals made their entries in countries like USA, Canada, England etc. And in that way Jains came into contact with foreign people. Need not to repeat that in 20th century some significant works on Jainism have definitely appeared in English, German and French languages, but there is not a single work which could speak about Jaina community and its "way of living" elaborately. It is for the first time that Mr. Pierre Paul Amiel has tried to make the world acquainted with the Jaina community, its culture, its rituals and the way of living particularly in the foreign countries, through his scholarly work' Jains Today in the World' published by Parshwanath Vidyapeeth. The present trend of the foreign scholars is not much in
