Unlike a Fool, He Is Not Defiled: Ascetic Purity and Ethics in the Samnyāsa Upanisads

The authors of the Samnyāsa Upanisads, manuals of ascetic lifestyle and practice, recommend that wanderers renounce behavioral standards of their formerly Brahmin householder life, including ritual purity and familial duties. Patrick Olivelle argues that these ascetics are thereafter considered impu...

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Main Author: Vail, Lise F. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2002
In: Journal of religious ethics
Year: 2002, Volume: 30, Issue: 3, Pages: 373-397
Further subjects:B Ethics
B non–violence
B Ascetics
B Virtue
B Purity
B Hinduism
B Samnyāsa Upanisads
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