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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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
London
Anthem Press
2011.
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| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Further subjects: | B
Asceticism
Hinduism
B Asceticism ; Hinduism |
| Online Access: |
Volltext (Publisher) Volltext (lizenzpflichtig) |
| 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015) |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (328 pages), digital, PDF file(s). |
| ISBN: | 978-1-84331-802-6 |
