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Ascetics and Brahmins

Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1843318024
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (433 download)

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Download or read book Ascetics and Brahmins written by Patrick Olivelle and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Asceticism represents a major strand in the religious and cultural history of India, providing some of the most creative elements within Indian religions and philosophies. Most of the major religions, such as Buddhism and Jainism, and religious philosophies both within these new religions and in the Brahmanical tradition, were created by world-renouncing ascetics. Yet ascetical institutions and ideologies developed in a creative tension with other religious institutions that stressed the centrality of family, procreation and society. It is this tension that has articulated many of the central features of Indian religion and culture. The papers collected in this volume seek to locate Indian ascetical traditions within their historical, political and ideological contexts.

Ascetics and Brahmins

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Total Pages : 328 pages
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Download or read book Ascetics and Brahmins written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.

Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438414994
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)

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Download or read book Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism written by Patrick Olivelle and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1994-10-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism is the critical edition and translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text written by Yadava Prakasaa, whose life and activities are of historical interest because, according to tradition, he was the teacher of the great Vais'n'ava theologian Ramanuja. This text is the oldest and most comprehensive example of medieval Sanskrit literature devoted to examining the duties of ascetics. Yadava Prakasaa is the only one who explicitly examines the thorny question of whether asceticism is a legitimate way of life for Brahmins. His topics include the people qualified to become ascetics; the rite for becoming an ascetic; the clothes and belongings of an ascetic; techniques of meditation; daily routines such as bathing, divine worship, and begging; proper conduct and etiquette; the manner of wandering; residence during the rains; expiatory penances; and the funeral. In his introduction, Patrick Olivelle examines the place of Yadava's text within the literary and institutional history of Brahman'ical asceticism. He discusses the origins of asceticism in India; its incorporation into the Brahman'ical mainstream; and its variations within Hindu sects, as well as in Buddhist and Jain traditions.

The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by Peter Lang Group Ag, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1993 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that the Indian ascetic traditions have two independent sources, the one Vedic, the other non-Vedic. This point of view has been expressed here and there in the scholarly literature, but it has never yet been argued in detail on the basis of textual evidence. The primary evidence is as follows: Early Indian literature - primarily the Epics, Buddhist and Jaina literature - explicitly differentiates between two types of ascetics, who distinguish themselves from each other in their aims, as well as in various other respects.

Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires

Author : William R. Pinch
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521851688
Total Pages : 13 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Warrior Ascetics and Indian Empires written by William R. Pinch and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-03-17 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2006 book is an innovative study of warrior asceticism in India from the 1500s to the present.

The Sādhus of India

Author : Robert Lewis Gross
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Sādhus of India written by Robert Lewis Gross and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Lewis Gross Provides A Richly Detailed Ethnographic Account Of India`S Colourful And Charismatic Holymen, Or Sadhus As They Are Referred To In South Asia. Through An Examination Of Their Cosmology, Sacred Symbolism, Ritual Practices, And Varied Interrelationships With The Hindu Laity, Dr. Gross Attempts To Understand The Persistence Of Ancient Traditions Of Asceticism And World Renunciation Modern Indian Social And Religious Life.

Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

Author : Patrick Olivelle
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422847
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism written by Patrick Olivelle and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1994-10-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hindu ascetic practices available in English. It is also the clearest.

Alcohol in Early Java

Author : Jiří Jákl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004417036
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)

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Download or read book Alcohol in Early Java written by Jiří Jákl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-25 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Alcohol in Early Java: Its Social and Cultural Significance, Jiří Jákl offers an account of the history of alcohol in pre-Islamic Java (9-15th C.E.).

Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism

Author : Yadava Prakasa
Publisher : Suny Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791422830
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book Rules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism written by Yadava Prakasa and published by Suny Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This translation of a twelfth-century Sanskrit text is the most comprehensive presentation of Hindu ascetic practices available in English. It is also the clearest.

The Faith of Ascetics and Lay Smārtas

Author : Yoshitsugu Sawai
Publisher : Sammlung de Nobili Institut Fur Indologie Der Un Wien
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Faith of Ascetics and Lay Smārtas written by Yoshitsugu Sawai and published by Sammlung de Nobili Institut Fur Indologie Der Un Wien. This book was released on 1992 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism

Author : Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
ISBN 13 : 9788120815513
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (155 download)

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Download or read book The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism written by Johannes Bronkhorst and published by Motilal Banarsidass Publ.. This book was released on 1998 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: how spiritual healing works and how colours, tones, crystals and massage

Female Ascetics in Hinduism

Author : Lynn Teskey Denton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791484629
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Book Synopsis Female Ascetics in Hinduism by : Lynn Teskey Denton

Download or read book Female Ascetics in Hinduism written by Lynn Teskey Denton and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Female Ascetics in Hinduism provides a vivid account of the lives of women renouncers—women who renounce the world to live ascetic spiritual lives—in India. The author approaches the study of female asceticism by focusing on features of two dharmas, two religiously defined ways of life: that of woman-as-householder and that of the ascetic, who, for various reasons, falls outside the realm of householdership. The result of fieldwork conducted in Varanasi (Benares), the book explores renouncers' social and personal backgrounds, their institutions, and their ways of life. Offering a first-hand look at and an insightful analysis of this little-known world, this highly readable book will be indispensable to those interested in female asceticism in the Hindu tradition and women's spiritual lives around the world.

Of Ascetics and Emperors

Author : Saralabala Mitra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781484805565
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Of Ascetics and Emperors written by Saralabala Mitra and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of Ascetics and Emperors: Teachings of an Indian Sage is an English translation of Saralabala Mitra's book, Katha Prasanga (Spiritual Discourses). Here one can find the spiritual discourses of the renowned Indian sage, Balananda Brahmachari. His monastery in India was a place of pilgrimage for innumerable spiritual seekers. Attracted by his presence, people from all walks of life came to him. To each and every one, the great sage gave generously and poured out all the precious wealth that lay in his spiritual treasure chest. Through the ages, India has maintained a tradition of spiritual teachers giving Dharma talks to all who care to listen. Listening to a good teacher can be extremely helpful; however, in the busy world of modern times, it is hard to find such sages and even harder for people to make time for them. This book overcomes the hurdles of time and space by transporting readers to a world where great seers taught the basic tenets of the spiritual path to all seekers. To make the extremely profound, complex, and esoteric ideas of Hinduism accessible to people from all backgrounds, Balananda Brahmachari used a variety of stories, anecdotes, parables, and quotations from real life experiences and the Hindu scriptures. Sometimes the discussions are highly philosophical and sometimes they are delightfully simple. What he says pours forth straight from his heart-the heart of an enlightened one who has practiced and realized what is written in the scriptures. If he could be present, in flesh and blood, before his devotees today and they asked him to say a few words of wisdom to them, here's what he would probably say: "Ulat Jao." This phrase literally means "turn yourself upside down," but the deeper meaning is "turn inwards." This has been the advice of all sages and all religions of all ages; they have all asked seekers to turn their gaze from the outside to the inside, from the mortal to the immortal, from the untrue to the true.

The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India

Author : John Campbell Oman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystics, Ascetics, and Saints of India written by John Campbell Oman and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism

Author : Raymond Brady Williams
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108421148
Total Pages : 293 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism written by Raymond Brady Williams and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Introduction to Swaminarayan Hinduism, third edition, offers a comprehensive study of a contemporary form of Hinduism. Begun as a revival and reform movement in India 200 years ago, it has now become one of the fastest growing and most prominent forms of Hinduism. The Swaminarayan Hindu transnational network of temples and institutions is expanding in India, East Africa, the UK, USA, Australasia, and in other African and Asian cities. The devotion, rituals, and discipline taught by its founder, Sahajanand Swami (1781-1830) and elaborated by current leaders in major festivals, diverse media, and over the Internet, help preserve ethnic and religious identity in many modern cultural and political contexts. Swaminarayan Hinduism, here described through its history, divisions, leaders, theology and practices, provides valuable case studies of contemporary Hinduism, religion, migrants, and transnationalism. This new edition includes up-to-date information about growth, geographic expansion, leadership transitions, and impact of Swaminarayan institutions in India and abroad.

Ascetic Games

Author : Dhirendra K. Jha
Publisher : Context
ISBN 13 : 9789388689748
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Ascetic Games written by Dhirendra K. Jha and published by Context. This book was released on 2019 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Connected Discourses of the Buddha

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Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0861719735
Total Pages : 2082 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book The Connected Discourses of the Buddha written by and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-06-10 with total page 2082 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume offers a complete translation of the Samyutta Nikaya, The Connected Discourses of the Buddha, the third of the four great collections in the Sutta Pitaka of the Pali Canon. The Samyutta Nikaya consists of fifty-six chapters, each governed by a unifying theme that binds together the Buddha's suttas or discourses. The chapters are organized into five major parts. The first, The Book with Verses, is a compilation of suttas composed largely in verse. This book ranks as one of the most inspiring compilations in the Buddhist canon, showing the Buddha in his full grandeur as the peerless "teacher of gods and humans." The other four books deal in depth with the philosophical principles and meditative structures of early Buddhism. They combine into orderly chapters all the important short discourses of the Buddha on such major topics as dependent origination, the five aggregates, the six sense bases, the seven factors of enlightenment, the Noble Eightfold Path, and the Four Noble Truths. Among the four large Nikayas belonging to the Pali Canon, the Samyutta Nikaya serves as the repository for the many shorter suttas of the Buddha where he discloses his radical insights into the nature of reality and his unique path to spiritual emancipation. This collection, it seems, was directed mainly at those disciples who were capable of grasping the deepest dimensions of wisdom and of clarifying them for others, and also provided guidance to meditators intent on consummating their efforts with the direct realization of the ultimate truth. The present work begins with an insightful general introduction to the Samyutta Nikaya as a whole. Each of the five parts is also provided with its own introduction, intended to guide the reader through this vast, ocean-like collection of suttas. To further assist the reader, the translator has provided an extensive body of notes clarifying various problems concerning both the language and the mean