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1. Yoginis in a Landscape
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- In a deep landscape hazily washed with translucent blues, five yoginis, or female ascetics, wearing fine gold-edged muslin and adorned with gold ornaments, hold aloft tiny golden cups of wine while the yogini in the center also holds a stringed musical instrument. Although the artist has depicted the humble possessions of ascetics in precious materials, the yoginis' wine cups, stringed instrument, and lightly draped shawls refer to yogic practice. Ascetics usually eschew clothing, smear their bodies with ashes, and chant or sing prayers to the accompaniment of a simple instrument such as the single-string ektar shown in this painting. The vast plain depicted in the painting and the delicately limned shrines create an appropriate setting for ascetics who wander between pilgrimage sites or live in isolated retreats, while the coils of lightning in the sky add a touch of severity to the dramatic effect.
2. Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity (Sac) Series)
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- Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity (Sac) Series).
3. Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity (Sac) Series) : Queer Pop Culture
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- Ascetics, Society, and the Desert: Studies in Early Egyptian Monasticism (Studies in Antiquity and Christianity (Sac) Series).
4. An Illustrated Life of the Buddha
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- The Buddha's dwelling miraculously escapes a heavy flood; the ascetics are amazed and ask to go forth .
- Bringing famous ascetics into the fold of his own ministry was an important strategy in spreading his own teaching, which was new. If he could convince these powerful ascetics, his spreading the teaching would be much easier and more effective. ...
- When a great flood arose, the ascetics thought that the Buddha must have surely drowned, and took boats to go and find him, only to find that he was walking meditation under the surface of the water. ...
- The Pathamasambodhi states: "The Buddha spent two full months converting the ascetics, after which the ascetic who led the largest group, Uruvela Kassapa, becoming disillusioned, realized that he was not an Arahat as he had at first mistakenly believed. ...
- The Buddha gave a teaching to the assembled ascetics and all of them became Arahats. ...
5. SL4: Re: 3rd Annual SL4 Ascetics-Hedonists Deathmatch
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- Re: 3rd Annual SL4 Ascetics-Hedonists Deathmatch.
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6. Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society ; 8) - Computer Toaster
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- Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society ; 8).
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- Absent Lord: Ascetics and Kings in a Jain Ritual Culture (Comparative Studies in Religion and Society ; 8).
7. sanyasis
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- As with all ascetics, there is considerable variation in individual ascetic practice. ...
- Some ascetics still give up all clothing, as a sign of renouncing everything, including shame. ...
- During the summer pilgrimage season many ascetics set up huts alongside the path, and gain their livelihood by begging from the pilgrims passing by. ... The markings on his forehead and on his temples at the corners of his eyes identify him as belonging to one of the Sanyasi Naga Akharas, which in earlier times were groups of ascetics who made their living as traders and mercenary soldiers.
- Most ascetics live fairly simple lives, and for many of the poorer ones life can often be very difficult. One of the ways that ascetics can survive is by helping each other--and many ascetics are very willing to share what little they have, from the conviction that God will send more to them. Hindu culture also stresses the religious merit generated by giving to ascetics, either through direct gifts, or through supporting charitable institutions that house and feed them. Through such support ascetics can live a subsistence life, and for those who are genuinely spiritually inclined, this allows them to devote themselves to religious life. ...
- Many ascetics survive is by forming small communities of their own, often comprised of a guru and his disciples. ... Since genuine ascetics are often believed to have magic powers (and in any case are unpredictable), most people treat them with great respect.
8. SL4: RE: 3rd Annual SL4 Ascetics-Hedonists Deathmatch
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9. New Page 1
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- In 1996-97 Vallely lived with and researched an ascetic community of Terapanthi Jains, a group of the largest order of female ascetics under a single leader among Jains in India. In the opening of the first chapter, “Reeboks and Renunciation in Rajasthan,” Vallely begins with an extended meditation on the nature of the Reeboks she had bought in Montreal before her fieldwork, reflects on their out-of-place nature in the sands of Rajasthan, recounts the effort needed to take them off and put them on (while the ascetics around her slipped their sandals on and off with ease), and describes her growing realization that the sneakers would “definitely have to go” – indeed, they would have to be liberated (12). ...
- Divided into three sections, the ethnography proceeds by discussing the nature and distinctiveness of Jain ethics; the rituals that create and separate ascetics from householders; the role of demons and desires in the lives of ascetic nuns; the ways in which renunciants are intrinsically involved in the very world they renounce; the roles of devotion and divinity in a religious order that proclaims self-reliance and independence over all other values; and an insightful commentary on female ascetics and their role, duties, and responsibilities in the Jain spiritual and worldly universes. ...
- For those interested in the nature of religious belief and experience, Vallely demonstrates how male and female ascetics, renunciants of worldliness, are linked to the “householders,” or the lay public, who are attached to worldly concerns and objects. ...
10. The Ascetics and Mothers and Fathers of the Church by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA (1833-1898)
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- The Ascetics and Mothers and Fathers of the Church by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones, Bt ARA. ...
- "On the extreme left are the ascetics, the prophetic element in the Church's life; among these only St. ...
11. SL4: Re: 3rd Annual SL4 Ascetics-Hedonists Deathmatch
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12. Jaina philosophy : Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
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- Further, ascetics, who are usually wandering mendicants, are required to stay in one area during the monsoon to avoid unintentionally disturbing and harming life forms in and as a result of the abundance of water. To avoid inadvertently injuring insects, certain groups of ascetics even cover their mouths and noses, and carry a whisk to keep insects away. ...
- Physical activity per se is responsible for the accumulation of karma; abstinence from it is symbolized by the famous iconic representations of ascetics standing upright over such long periods that vines grow up their legs â “ physical control represents the mental control that is also necessary to avoid subtle, inner movement. ...
- The mutual reliance of ascetics and laity is evident throughout the history of Jainism. The ascetics do not cook, and rely on the devotees for their daily subsistence, and the laity require the ascetics for their religious teaching and advice. Confession of ethical transgressions belongs to the religious life of both ascetics and laity, who atone for them by penances of religious purification, the aim being to reduce or even completely annihilate the karmic effect of the infringement.
- This kind of death, open to both ascetics and laity, is a death that literally makes â ˜the physical body and the internal passions emaciatedâ ™ (sallekhanÄ ; PÅ«jyapÄ da on TattvÄ rthasÅ«tra V, 22); often it serves to accelerate the death process already in progress. ...
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