Asceticism In Ancient Indian Religion

Asceticism (Hinduism)

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Asceticism refers to a lifestyle and/or a gear up of practices in which restrictions and limits are placed on the sensually pleasurable and comfortable experiences that about people consider integral to a happy life. The practices involve restrictions on a single or on multiple forms of pleasurable experiences along with the things that generate them. Ascetic practices may be undertaken for short periods, such equally a day to a month, or longer term, including for the remainder of 1's life. Short-term ascetic practices can be found in ethnic cultures all over the world, usually done past shaman as part of rituals performed to communicate with the spirit world or overcome demonic forces and influences or past commoners as a form of penance for angering a deity, as a grade of supplication in order to have one'southward desires fulfilled, for ritual purification, etc. ([five], p. 441). Short-term forms of divineness are traditionally...

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1. Section of Religion, University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Honolulu, HI, USA

   Ramdas Lamb

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1. Dept of Anthropology, The University of North Texas Dept of Anthropology, Denton, TX, United states

   Dr. Pankaj Jain

2. The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA, U.s.a.

   Dr. Rita Sherma

3. Jamia Millia Islamia, Centre for the Report of Comparative Reli Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, India

   Dr. Madhu Khanna

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Lamb, R. (2019). Asceticism (Hinduism). In: Jain, P., Sherma, R., Khanna, M. (eds) Hinduism and Tribal Religions. Encyclopedia of Indian Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-1036-5_90-1

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