The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism
Author: Johannes Bronkhorst
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9788120815513
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Asceticism and Healing in Ancient India
Author: Kenneth G. Zysk
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9788120815285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe rich Indian medical tradition is usually traced back to Sanskrit sources, the earliest of which cannot much antedate the common era. In this book Kenneth Zysk shows that Buddhist scriptures some centuries older than this contain abundant information about medical practice, and are our earliest evidence for a rational approach to medicine in India. He argues that Buddhism and the medical tradition were mutually supportive: that Buddhist monks and people associated with them contributed to the development of medicine, while their skills as physical as well as spiritual healers enhanced their reputation and popular support. Drawing on a wide range of textual, archaeological, and secondary sources, Zysk first presents an overview of the history of Indian Medicine in its religious context. He then examines primary literature from the Pali Buddhist Canon and from the Sanskrit treatises of Bhela, Caraka, and susruta. By close comparison of these two bodies of literature Zysk convincingly shows how the theories delineated in the medical classics actually became practice.
Indian Asceticism
Author: Carl Olson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0190225319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThroughout the history of Indian religions, the ascetic figure is most closely identified with power. A by-product of the ascetic path, power is displayed in the ability to fly, walk on water or through dense objects, read minds, discern the former lives of others, see into the future, harm others, or simply levitate one's body. These tales give rise to questions about how power and violence are related to the phenomenon of play. Indian Asceticism focuses on the powers exhibited by ascetics of India from ancient to modern time. Carl Olson discusses the erotic, the demonic, the comic, and the miraculous forms of play and their connections to power and violence. He focuses on Hinduism, but evidence is also presented from Buddhism and Jainism, suggesting that the subject matter of this book pervades India's major indigenous religious traditions. The book includes a look at the extent to which findings in cognitive science can add to our understanding of these various powers; Olson argues that violence is built into the practice of the ascetic. Indian Asceticism culminates with an attempt to rethink the nature of power in a way that does justice to the literary evidence from Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain sources.
Ancient Indian Asceticism
Author: M. G. Bhagat
Publisher: New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal Publishers
Published: 1976
Total Pages: 394
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRules and Regulations of Brahmanical Asceticism
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1994-10-28
Total Pages: 478
ISBN-13: 1438414994
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRules 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 Sādhus of India
Author: Robert Lewis Gross
Publisher:
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 506
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRobert 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.
Gṛhastha
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher:
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 019069615X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe contrast between a married householder and a celibate ascetic who has left home and family has been highlighted in scholarship on ancient Indian religion and culture. But this is the first volume dedicated exclusively to the study of the neglected member of this pair, the householder. Through detailed study of inscriptions and texts, it shows that the ancient Indian householder was viewed as someone dedicated to holiness, just like an ascetic. The history of the common Sanskrit term used for householder, gṛhastha, shows its sharp contrast to the ascetic who has left home and also points to the essential religious nature of the householder.
Ascetics and Brahmins
Author: Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Anthem Press
Published: 2011-12-15
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 1843318024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Nine Lives
Author: William Dalrymple
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-06-07
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1408801248
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Buddhist monk takes up arms to resist the Chinese invasion of Tibet - then spends the rest of his life trying to atone for the violence by hand printing the best prayer flags in India. A Jain nun tests her powers of detachment as she watches her best friend ritually starve herself to death. Nine people, nine lives; each one taking a different religious path, each one an unforgettable story. William Dalrymple delves deep into the heart of a nation torn between the relentless onslaught of modernity and the ancient traditions that endure to this day. LONGLISTED FOR THE BBC SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE
The Hermit's Hut
Author: Kazi Khaleed Ashraf
Publisher:
Published: 2013
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780824870935
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work offers an original insight into the profound relationship between architecture and asceticism. It convincingly traces the influences from early Indian asceticism to Zen Buddhism to the Japanese teahouse. The protagonist of the narrative is the hermit's hut. The author provides a complex narrative that stems from this simple structure, showing how the significance of the hut resonates widely and how the question of dwelling is central to ascetic imagination.
