| On its distant, furthest peak, ascetics are said to enact their own funerals and smear themselves with funeral-pyre ash. |
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| The paduka or toe-knob sandals were usually worn by ascetics and mendicants. |
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| He formed an order of ascetics devoted to develop a sense of community with the help of religious injunctions and instructions. |
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| Later, the Fuke school came to be composed primarily of wandering, non-ordained ascetics who specialized in playing the shakuhachi flute. |
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| In all four Vedas, there are references to women ascetics reciting Vedic hymns and even creating mantras. |
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| We can see well enough that Paul had to fight the Gnostics, the Platonists, and the ascetics on these counts. |
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| In his time, ascetics and recluses again made an attempt to enter the Guru's flock. |
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| The ascetics would go out and, with great exertion, meditate for months and years under a tree or leaning against a boulder. |
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| Religion advocates that we must renounce all worldly material things and become ascetics. |
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| Missionaries in the African churches, and probably elsewhere, were normally unmarried ascetics living in the utmost simplicity. |
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| Mystics and ascetics have been telling us for ages that the goal of life is to learn how to die. |
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| Brahmins and ascetics play their part, but their roles are secondary to those of Ayodhya's ruling family, and the monkey and demon warriors. |
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| The leaves are said to be invigorating and an aphrodisiac and, therefore, not to be used by celibates and ascetics. |
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| When you read Bondi on the desert ascetics and medieval mystics, you are there. |
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| Here was a maximalist in a landscape of ascetics, an inclusivist in love with the dictionary and world. |
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| Few people among us are obsessed with nirvana and awakening, but that existed in Buddha's sangha where many ascetics wanted to become arhat. |
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| According to the legend, it happens that the ascetics of Sho metamorphose themselves into demons? |
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| The double cloak here is the diplois, the pallium, doubled in length, worn without the underlying tunic or any other undergarment by ascetics and Cynic philosophers. |
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| These are the qualities of Siva, the lord of yogis and ascetics. |
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| The protagonist moves through various stages of life, from living with ascetics to participating in the marketplace, neither of which bring satisfaction. |
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| The composition of hymns of the Rig-Veda was done by Hindu recluses, ascetics, Rishis and Sages rooted in the realities of life inside the society. |
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| The siddha and the other ascetics constitute the pañca-parameṣṭhin, the five chief divinities of the Jainas. |
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| Such ascetics would live in dwellings that they themselves dug out of the rock. |
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| There is a flame which seems to come from a river of fire in the eyes of the solitary ascetics, witnessed by those who come across them! |
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| It is said that every night, he left his prison and flew away to practise ascetics at the top of the Mount Fuji. |
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| Thus, Mughal painters created a large number of miniatures showing princes with ascetics. |
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| Sindh, the southern province of Pakistan, is considered to be the true home of the wandering mystics and ascetics known as dervishes. |
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| This animal is present in all visionary states, from the dreams of children to the mystical visions of ascetics and spiritual seekers. |
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| The ascetics who have recommended it for various ailments have also prescribed it for pains and aches experienced in different parts of the body. |
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| This continued throughout the year, except during the four months of the Vassa rainy season when ascetics of all religions rarely traveled. |
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| In addition, Ellen is conducting a study with Hindu ascetics in India. |
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| In the East, holiness could inhabit the living: ascetics like the stylites could occupy the liminal space between the corrupt world and the pure one. |
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| Simeon's reputation inspired ascetics, both men and women, to emulate and surpass his austerities, some stylites appearing as late as the 19th century in Russia. |
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| At times the duskiness of the abandoned monasteries, the quiet grief and noble appearance of those holy ascetics, cut off for centuriesfrom all earthly worries, including political, breathe from Marlen Spindler's works. |
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| While some women became ascetics, many more focused their religious lives on realizing a state of blessedness that was understood to be at once this-worldly and expressive of a larger cosmic well-being. |
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| Besides extreme cases of genuine allergy to money in the conduct of ascetics, and of an agreed life of destitution, poverty is not an end in itself. |
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| We are good, we are evil, ascetics, hedonists, sorcerers and saints. |
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| Both are hard-working, religious ascetics who care about the poor. |
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| The net result is that the saints who feature on the church calendar are an extraordinary mixture: they include pacifists and warriors, kings and beggars, activists and ascetics. |
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| And the Irish monks were not as isolated as people have hitherto imagined either. As Mrs Brown points out, there is a short but intriguing list of facts that link the ascetics of Egypt and the western fringe of Europe. |
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| Despite their harsh and isolated surroundings, the ascetics of Mount Sinai may have had a wide range of contacts, ranging from the Celtic fringe to present-day Iraq and beyond. |
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| Like all the cave-temples of India, hollowed out by the ascetics, as I suspect, in order to test human patience, Bâgh caverns are at the top of an almost vertical rock. |
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| Kukai is known to be in meditation in his mausoleum but his body is absolutely not displayed or visible like those of the ascetics of the Yudono mounts. |
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| Often depicted in a rural setting, in the solitude of a hermitage or surrounded by animals spellbound by this music, hermits and ascetics play the vina, their favoured instrument. |
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| Then there are the ascetics of the Yudono mounts, who like the Chinese Masters of Zen, who were self imprisoned, living the end of their life in a hermetic vault, lasting 1.000 days. |
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| As the successive Masters came from all the schools, it is normal to find at the same time texts of Zen, Amidisme and esotericism Shingon and Tendai, re-examined and corrected under the perspective of the ascetics of Shugen. |
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| Female ascetics find shelter in a wide variety of establishments and vary greatly in the degree to which they travel. |
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| This communal monastic lifestyle grew out of the lifestyle of earlier sects of wandering ascetics, some of whom the Buddha had studied under. |
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| One conduit for this were the ascetics, called resi, who taught mystical practices. |
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| Because the Priscillians believe that matter and nature were evil, they became ascetics and fasted on Sundays and Christmas Day. |
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| Since renunciant traditions have been a primarily male undertaking, the very existence of male ascetics has been especially challenging to materialistic societies. |
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| Mao and Castro were said to be ascetics in their early guerrilla phases, though the paunches of their later years betray unrevolutionary tastes for the lush life. |
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| Could I convert virgins to nymphomania? Masturbators to rakehood? Faithful wives to adulteresses? Seducers to ascetics? Very doubtful. But possible. |
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| Ascetics of the Orthodox Church are recognized by their long hair, and in case of male monks, long beards. |
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