Jain Journal was founded in 1966 at the Jain Bhawan in Kolkata as one of the first academic journals in English dedicated to the study of Jainism. In 2026, a new editorial board was established to oversee a revitalization of this important resource for Jain Studies. It is now online, peer-reviewed, open access, and co-published by Jain Bhawan in Kolkata, India, and the Jain Education and Research Foundation, USA.

Committed to intellectual openness, Jain Journal rejects all forms of dogmatism and instead upholds diverse perspectives, critical inquiry, and academic rigor. The journal provides a forum for students and scholars of Jainism to contribute academic insights across a range of length and form, from short translations, to transcribed interviews, to photo essays. Jain Journal is a place where scholars can publish scholarship that may not find a home in journals dedicated to publishing standard research articles.

Articles will be published on a rolling basis throughout the year in electronic form (downloadable PDFs). Each year’s collection will constitute a single volume of Jain Journal. From time to time, articles may be grouped under specific thematic headings. Guest editors may be invited to curate special issues devoted to particular topics or areas of interest.

We express our sincere gratitude to Rajesh Kankariya for Jain Journal website development and deployment, Ana Bajželj (University of California, Riverside) for initial support in reimagining Jain Journal, and Debraj Sen for Jain Journal website design.

The image on the homepage is a modified version of the Ādinātha temple on Mount Śatruñjaya, as depicted in a nineteenth-century paṭa housed at the Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University.