JAINA President’s message
JAINA President’s Message Jai Jinendra!
Hope you and your family are healthy and had a wonderful Ayambil Oli and Mahavir Janma Kalyanak celebrations at your Jain Center. JAINA is grateful to you for your valuable support in promoting Jain principles, helping community, educating Jains and non-Jains to create a stronger North American Jain community, and creating awareness of Jainism as we spread the message of Tirthankar Mahavir. We hope to have your continued support as always. It is my privilege to share a number of major accomplishments JAINA made over the past 3 months.
March 2022 •
JAINA Women’s Committee celebrated Women’s Day by organizing an exciting, educational seminar, Cryptocurrency Myths vs. Facts, on Zoom.
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Jain Center of Liaison Committee launched Dignitaries Search App to have one centralized database of all dignitaries that local Jain Centers and JAINA could invite for their events. Please check this new app https://dignitaries.jaina.org.
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In December 2021, the JAINA Vaiyavach committee had committed $40,000 to Shantiniketan Sadhana Kendra and Prerna Prakashan Trust, Tithal, Valsad for acquiring and renovating a place to be used as an additional Upashray for our Sadhviji and Mahasatiji.
February 2022 •
JAINA EC unanimously approved the 12 new chairmanships of the JAINA committees.
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JAINA Academic Liaison Committee and International School for Jain Studies cosponsored a 2-day Virtual International Conference, ‘Beyond Violence: Jainism, Plurality, and World Religions’. The conference was coorganized by Claremont School of Theology Jain Studies Program, Steven J. Green School of International and Public Affairs, and Florida International University.
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JAINA got an amazing opportunity to be the official Anumodak of Shree Bhagwati Jain Diksha Mahotsav in Param Sharan of Rashtrasant Param Gurudev Shree Namramuni Maharaj Saheb, where 9 young souls began a search within the self, to discover the self.
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