Los Angeles: 27.07.2018
On the Guru Purnima day (Friday July 27, 2018) with a gift of $800,000 dollars, Drs. Jasvant and Meera Modi of Los Angeles signed the legal documents to establish the Bhagwan Ajitnath Endowed Professorship in Jain Studies at California State University Northridge (a suburb of Los Angeles).
Modis are the big philanthropists; particularly to promote gnan mandirs (temples of learning) in Jainism at colleges and universities in USA. So far, they have been instrumental with their big donations to establish Bhagwan Parshvanath Chair at University of California at Irvine, Bhagwan Mallinath Endowed Professorship at Loyola Marymount University, Bhagwan Vimalnath Lecturership at University of California at Santa Barbara, Shrimad Rajchandra Chair at University of California at Riverside and Bhagwan Mahavir Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Rice University and several other such initiatives. More to come hopefully soon.
Dr. Jasvant Modi is a vegan and the current President of the Jain Center of Southern California, Las Angeles.Jain Community is grateful to Modis for their vision, dedication and support to the causes that eventually will help in sharing the wisdom, richness and philosophy of Ahimsa, karuna, compassion, multiple perspectives and practices of non-attachment with Jains and non-Jains.
Drs. Jasvant and Meera Modi
California State University Northridge
