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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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
2002
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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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