Jain Teachers in the New World

Chitrabhanu and Sushil Kumar in New Jersey (Blairstown, NJ)

Jain monks, Chitrabhanu and Sushil Kumar, at Siddhachalam Jain Ashram in Blairstown, New Jersey, circa 1992

Chitrabhanu in New York City (New York City, NY)

Chitrabhanu at the Jain Meditation International Center in New York City (Photo: Courtesy of Jain Meditation International)

Jain Center of Greater Boston Inauguration (Norwood, MA)

Gurudev Chitrabhanuji, a spiritual leader of the Jain community in the West and one of the first Jain monks to have left the Indian subcontinent, speaks to congregants in Norwood, Massachusetts. Addressing the crowd in Gujarati and English, he offers advice on better incorporating the principals of the Jain tradition in day-to-day life, 2010