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21 wrz 2009 · This essay is an introductory survey of the literature on Hindu asceticism and has the following objectives: to discuss the text-based structural studies on asceticism that have helped to shape the field and to present the recent and emerging scholarship on female Hindu asceticism that challenges and/or supplements the dominant Brahmanical ...
22 sty 2015 · Using asceticism in a broad sense to include a wide variety of Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain religious practices, this chapter presents a selective and sweeping overview of the history of asceticism in India. This chapter examines previous scholarly interpretations of ascetic powers.
10 lip 2024 · Asceticism, modern scholarship has often argued, is a cornerstone of Indian religions. It was fashionable not too long ago to contrast Indian religions, with their life-and-world negating tendencies, to the life affirming religions of the west.
The following chapter gives a selected and sweeping overview of the history of asceticism in India. The third chapter focuses on the powers acquired by ascetics by examining the third chapter of the Yoga Sūtras along with a consideration of Buddhist and Jain understandings of such powers.
5 lut 2013 · This paper examines the conflict between asceticism and the established societal religion and the symbolic universe of classical Hinduism that emerged from their interaction. Louis Dumont (1960) in his seminal work “World Renunciation in Indian Religions” drew our attention to the structural conflict existing within the bosom of Hinduism ...
1 sty 2022 · This article will look at several theories on the origins and early development of asceticism, how it has evolved and diversified in Hinduism over the millennia, and some of the ways it has influenced the contemporary tradition.
13 paź 2024 · This course provides an overview of the history and development of asceticism in India. It then focuses on contemporary ‘traditional’ sampradāya s (religious orders) and the practice of tapasyā (austerity) and yoga among sādhus.
