Examples of ascetic in the following topics:
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- Sramana broke with Vedic Hinduism over the
authority of the Brahmins and the need to follow ascetic lives.
- The dominant Vedic ritualism contrasted with
the beliefs of the Sramanas followers who renounced married and domestic life
and adopted an ascetic path, one of severe self-discipline and abstention from
all indulgence, in order to achieve spiritual liberation.
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India, Sramana originally referred to any ascetic, recluse, or religious
practitioner who renounced secular life and society in order to focus solely on finding religious
truth.
- Sramana evolved in India over two phases: the Paccekabuddha, the tradition of the individual ascetic, the “lone
Buddha” who leaves the world behind; and the Savaka, the phase of disciples, or
those who gather together as a community, such as a sect of monks.
- Buddha practiced severe asceticism before his enlightenment and recommended a non-ascetic middle way.
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- The
Sramanas renounced married and domestic life and adopted an ascetic path (one
of severe self-discipline and abstention from all indulgence) in order to achieve
spiritual liberation.
- Jain monks and nuns
adhere to these vows absolutely, placing Jainism squarely in the ascetic and
self-discipline traditions of Sramana.
- The Svetambara, meaning "white clad," describes its ascetic
adherents’ practice of wearing white clothes, while the monks of the "sky clad" Digambara do not wear clothing at all, a practice upon which they disagree.
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- Christian monasticism, which consists of individuals living ascetic and often cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship, became popular during the Middle Ages and gave rise to several monastic orders with different goals and lifestyles.
- Christian monasticism is the devotional practice of individuals who live ascetic and typically cloistered lives that are dedicated to Christian worship.
- Their life was extremely ascetic, though such practices were apparently not prescribed by the first rule that Francis gave them (probably as early as 1209), which seems to have been nothing more than a collection of Scriptural passages emphasizing the duty of poverty.
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- The
Sramanas renounced married and domestic life, and adopted an ascetic path—
one
of severe self-discipline and abstention from all indulgence—in order to achieve
spiritual liberation.
- Buddha lived as a Sramana ascetic for approximately six years until he had an "awakening"
in a place called Bodh Gaya, in the Gaya district of the modern Indian state of
Bihar.
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- These showed scenes from the
life of the Buddha, the ascetic and philosopher, who lived in the eastern part
of the Indian subcontinent sometime between sixth and fourth centuries, on
whose teachings the Buddhist religion is based.
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- His residence at Leuven, where he lectured at the University, exposed Erasmus to much criticism from those ascetics, academics and clerics hostile to the principles of literary and religious reform and the loose norms of the Renaissance adherents to which he was devoting his life.
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- The austere, ascetic, and severe work of Francisco de Zurbarán exemplified this thread.
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- Sawm (fasting): three types of fasting are recognized by the Quran: ritual fasting, fasting as compensation for repentance, and ascetic fasting.