- 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...
- (householder),
Vanaprastha (forest walker/forest dweller), and
Sannyasa (
renunciate). The
Asrama system is one
facet of the
Dharma concept in Hinduism. It...
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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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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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inspired by the
Renunciate guildhouses.
Books in the
world of the
Renunciates: The
Shattered Chain (1976) (reprinted as Oath of The
Renunciates, the 1983 omnibus...
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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...
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Swami Dayananda Saraswati (15
August 1930 – 23
September 2015) was a
renunciate monk of the
Hindu Saraswati order of sannyasa. He was also
known as Pujya...
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Hindu males (student (brahmacharin),
householder (grihastha) and recluse/
renunciate (vanaprastha) as well as the Buddha's Four
Noble Truths (Part One) and...
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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...
- In Islam, the
terms ḥanīf (SING; Arabic: حنيف, lit. 'a
renunciate [of idolatry]') and ḥunafā' (PLUR; حنفاء) are
primarily used to
refer to pre-Islamic...
