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Dec 8, 2018 · Asceticism refers to a lifestyle and/or a set of practices in which restrictions and limits are placed on the sensually pleasurable and comfortable experiences that most people consider integral to a happy life. The practices involve restrictions on a single or on multiple forms of pleasurable experiences along with the things that generate ...
- Ramdas Lamb
- ramdas214@gmail.com
ABSTRACT. This chapter examines changes in how ascetics have positioned themselves within their social and political context from the late colonial period to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Hindu ascetics have always been figures of authority and played an important socio-political role. However, with the rise of nationalism ...
Feb 5, 2013 · 1 Introduction to Renunciation in the Hindu Traditions; 2 The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity; 3 Village vs. Wilderness: Ascetic Ideals and the Hindu World; 4 A Definition of World Renunciation; 5 From Feast to Fast: Food and the Indian Ascetic; 6 The Beast and the Ascetic: The Wild in the Indian Religious Imagination
- Patrick Olivelle
- 2011
Sep 21, 2009 · This essay is intended as a preliminary research tool for scholars and students with which to navigate the topography of Hindu asceticism and to understand the crucial developments in the field that have changed the ways that scholars theorize both the category and phenomenon of asceticism in South Asia.
- Antoinette DeNapoli
- 21 September 2009
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- 3, Issue5
Feb 5, 2013 · 1 Introduction to Renunciation in the Hindu Traditions; 2 The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity; 3 Village vs. Wilderness: Ascetic Ideals and the Hindu World; 4 A Definition of World Renunciation; 5 From Feast to Fast: Food and the Indian Ascetic; 6 The Beast and the Ascetic: The Wild in the Indian Religious Imagination
- Patrick Olivelle
- 2011
Vol. xlviii] Hindu Ascetics and their Powers I37 sions of the Hindus. Thus Megasthenes, as reported by Strabo at xv, 6o, describes the Hylobioi: "They live in the forests, subsist on leaves and wild fruits, wear garments of bast, and abstain from commerce with women and from wine." And Aristobulus (as quoted at xv, 6i) says that in
Feb 5, 2013 · 1 Introduction to Renunciation in the Hindu Traditions; 2 The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity; 3 Village vs. Wilderness: Ascetic Ideals and the Hindu World; 4 A Definition of World Renunciation; 5 From Feast to Fast: Food and the Indian Ascetic; 6 The Beast and the Ascetic: The Wild in the Indian Religious Imagination
