The Jain Academy of Scholars was established on 30th June 2020 with the main objective of carrying out and promoting study and research on Jain Darshan by (1) “supporting concepts of Jain Darshan with scientific methodology and logic” and (2) enriching scientific theories by introducing Jain concepts”.

Motivation:
It has been realized for some decades that many scientific concepts given in the Jain Agams are not recognized at the national or international level by world scholars and when the same concepts are given by the western scholars, they are immediately appreciated. There are multiple reasons for this situation: (i) The Jain academic community is small and Jain scholars rarely carry out academic research or studies. (ii) The work is not presented in modern, understandable language and remains obscure to most people round the world (iii) Jain scholars do not publish their work in international journals and much of it is confined to local books and magazines which have a limited circulation within close groups and not worldwide visibility. Much of the work is carried out in Hindi, Gujarati and various national languages, and remains out of circulation in the world academic community. There may be many other reasons, but to bridge this gap the Jain Academy of scholars has been formed.