- A monk (/mʌŋk/, from Gr****: μοναχός, monachos, "single, solitary" via
Latin monachus) is a man who is a
member of a
religious order and
lives in a monastery...
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refers to when a
layperson leaves home to live the life of a
Buddhist renunciate among a
community of
bhikkhus (fully
ordained monks). This
generally involves...
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Renunciates of
Darkover is an
anthology of
fantasy and
science fiction short stories edited by
Marion Zimmer Bradley. The
stories are set in Bradley's...
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meaning "
renunciate", is
someone who
maintains the pure
monotheism of the
patriarch Abraham. More specifically, in
Islamic thought,
renunciates were the...
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context of
Indian martial artists or a
sampradaya monastery for
religious renunciates in Guru–shishya tradition. For example, in the
context of the Dashanami...
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Hayashi resigned his job and left his
family to join Aum and
become a
renunciate. He was
believed to be one of
Shoko Asahara's
favorites and was appointed...
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South and
Southeast Asia, is Maha sramana, "great sramana" (ascetic,
renunciate). On the
basis of
philological evidence,
Indologist and Pāli
expert Oskar...
- monk is
called a Sanyāsī, Sādhu, or Swāmi. A
female renunciate is
called a Sanyāsini.
Renunciates receive high
respect in
Hindu society because of their...
- 363–364. ISBN 978-0-8239-3179-8. Alex
McKay (2015).
Kailas Histories:
Renunciate Traditions and the
Construction of
Himalayan Sacred Geography. BRILL....
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Hagiographies dating from the 14th-17th
centuries deified him as a ruler-
renunciate,
travelling on a
digvijaya (conquest of the four quarters)
across the...
