This volume brings together papers on Indian ascetical institutions and ideologies published by Patrick Olivelle over a span of about thirty years.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Patrick Olivelle is Professor of Sanskrit and Indian Religions at the University of Texas at Austin, where he served as Chair of the Department of Asian Studies from 1994 to 2007. He previously taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington from 1974 to 1991, where he was the Department Chair from 1984 to 1990.
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Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction to Renunciation in the Hindu Traditions 2. The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity 3. Village vs. Wilderness: Ascetic Ideals and the Hindu World 4. A Definition of World Renunciation 5. From Feast to Fast: Food and the Indian Ascetic 6. The Beast and the Ascetic: The Wild in the Indian Religious Imagination 7. Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism 8. Contributions to the Semantic History of ‘samnyasa’ 9. The Semantic History of ‘asrama’ 10. Renunciation in the ‘Samnyasa Upanisads’ 11. Odes of Renunciation 12. Ritual Suicide and the Rite of Renunciation 13. The Renouncer’s Staff: ‘trivistabdha’, ‘tridanda’, and ‘ekadanda’ 14. ‘Pancamasramavidhi’: Rite for Becoming a Naked Ascetic 15. Anandatirtha’s ‘Samnyasapaddhati’: A Handbook for Madhvaite Ascetics 16. Renouncer and Renunciation in the ‘Dharmasastras’ 17. King and Ascetic: State Control of Asceticism in the ‘Arthasastra’ Bibliography Index
Abbreviations Preface 1. Introduction to Renunciation in the Hindu Traditions 2. The Ascetic and the Domestic in Brahmanical Religiosity 3. Village vs. Wilderness: Ascetic Ideals and the Hindu World 4. A Definition of World Renunciation 5. From Feast to Fast: Food and the Indian Ascetic 6. The Beast and the Ascetic: The Wild in the Indian Religious Imagination 7. Deconstruction of the Body in Indian Asceticism 8. Contributions to the Semantic History of ‘samnyasa’ 9. The Semantic History of ‘asrama’ 10. Renunciation in the ‘Samnyasa Upanisads’ 11. Odes of Renunciation 12. Ritual Suicide and the Rite of Renunciation 13. The Renouncer’s Staff: ‘trivistabdha’, ‘tridanda’, and ‘ekadanda’ 14. ‘Pancamasramavidhi’: Rite for Becoming a Naked Ascetic 15. Anandatirtha’s ‘Samnyasapaddhati’: A Handbook for Madhvaite Ascetics 16. Renouncer and Renunciation in the ‘Dharmasastras’ 17. King and Ascetic: State Control of Asceticism in the ‘Arthasastra’ Bibliography Index
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