Ascetics and Brahmins: studies in ideologies and institutions
This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.
Subtitles: | Ascetics & Brahmins |
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Format: | Electronic Book |
Language: | English |
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Published: |
London
Anthem Press
2011.
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In: | Year: 2011 |
Further subjects: | B
Asceticism
Hinduism
B Asceticism ; Hinduism |
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Parallel Edition: | Erscheint auch als: 9780857284327 |
Summary: | This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years. Preface -- Introduction to renunciation in the Hindu traditions -- The Ascetic and the domestic in Brahmanical religiosity -- Village vs. wilderness: Ascetic ideals and the Hindu world -- A definition of world renunciation -- From feast to fast: food and the Indian Ascetic -- The beast and the Ascetic: the wild in the Indian religious imagination -- Deconstruction of the body in Indian Asceticism -- Contributions to the semantic history of saṃnyāsa -- The semantic history of āśrama -- Renunciation in the Saṃnyāsa Upaniṣads -- Odes of renunciation -- Ritual suicide and the rite of renunciation -- The renouncer's staff: triviṣṭabdha, tridaṇḍa, and ekadaṇḍa -- Pañcamāśramavidhi: rite for becoming a naked Ascetic -- Ānandatīrtha's Saṃnyāsapaddhati: a handbook for Madhvaite Ascetics -- Renouncer and renunciation in the Dharmaśāstras -- King and Ascetic: state control of Asceticism in the Arthaśāstra |
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ISBN: | 1843318024 |