10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «RENOUNCER»
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renouncer in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
renouncer and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
World Conqueror and World
Renouncer: A Study of Buddhism and ...
This is the first comprehensive and authoritative work on the relationship between Buddhism and the polity in Thailand.
2
An Introduction to Hinduism
runs in a different direction, separating the world of the Brahman householder
from the world of the renouncer. This distinction between householder and
renouncer has been a focus of Louis Dumont's work, on whose ideas Olivelle
builds.
3
The Indian
Renouncer and Postmodern Poison: A Cross-cultural ...
By allowing the Indian renouncer and selected postmodern thinkers to share the medicine of each party in a cross-cultural exchange of ideas, this work will attempt to cure one's understanding about the several roles played by the renouncer ...
4
The Category of the Person: Anthropology, Philosophy, History
substitutes constraining relationship for the individual as we know him, but, on
the other hand, there is the institution of world-renunciation which allows for the
full independence of the man who chooses it.1 Incidentally, this man, the
renouncer ...
Michael Carrithers, Steven Collins, Steven Lukes, 1985
5
Japanese Temple Buddhism: Worldliness in a Religion of ...
Third, the world-renouncer was marked by his or her dress. In early Buddhism,
this was said to be a plain robe, perhaps made of collected rags sewn together.
36 In later Buddhism, and in Japanese Buddhism in particular, priestly costume ...
Stephen Grover Covell, 2005
6
Devotional Poetics and the Indian Sublime: Lacan's Return to ...
The theoretical incorporation of the renouncer into society at large or at least
society's toleration of him/her constitutes one of the major social shifts that is
reflected in the ideology of bhakti, as we shall see in the next chapter. l use “is
reflected ...
O renouncer, if you conquer the mind you can fulfill your desires, and if you
conquer the mind you will experience great bliss. If you conquer the heart you will
experience happiness; in this way [the fruit of] the yoga is ripened. 2. O renouncer
, if ...
8
Selves in Time and Place: Identities, Experience, and ...
Krishna's story converges with Jigyasu's critique: the untouchable and the ascetic
are united in a way the Brahman and renouncer cannot be. They portray the
ascetic tradition as belonging to the untouchable. This depiction carries with it a ...
Debra Skinner, Alfred Pach, Dorothy C. Holland, 1998
9
Ascetics and Brahmins: Studies in Ideologies and Institutions
Although ritually dead, the renouncer yet continues to live physically in the world,
thereby putting himself in an ambivalent and liminal position within Bråhamañism
. Both his condition of ritual death and the fact that, having deposited the sacred ...
10
The Samnyasa Upanisads : Hindu Scriptures on Asceticism and ...
ous sacrifice, conspire to make the renouncer ritually impure, in spite of the claim
that he is beyond such categories.16 In India, as we have seen, people who have
died recently are believed to exist in a liminal state; such people are called ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «RENOUNCER»
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renouncer is used in the context of the following news items.
How far to a kleptocracy?
Marco Gaffarena makes Calogero Sedara seem like a Buddhist world renouncer. I imagine his father will have sat him on the Mdina bastion as a little boy and ... «Times of Malta, Jun 15»
Libya's elections: The search for salvation
For these groups, any Muslim supporting the democratic process is viewed as a renouncer of Islam. Hundreds of people have been killed by gunfire and others ... «Aljazeera.com, Jun 14»
Modi of the Middle Class
Modi, who, before becoming an RSS full-timer, is said to have been a “world renouncer” for some time in the Himalayas and who has always been closely ... «Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Mar 14»
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah, social anthropologist, dies
His book “World Conqueror and World Renouncer” analyzed the balancing act between religious and political institutions in legitimating pre-nation-state polities ... «Harvard Gazette, Mar 14»
Stanley Jeyaraja Tambiah
Professor Tambiah's second Thai study, World Conqueror and World Renouncer (1976) examines Thai Buddhism from the opposite perspective. Whereas the ... «Sri Lanka Guardian, Jan 14»
Senator Ted Cruz still has not renounced his Canadian citizenship …
Canada's best-known citizenship renouncer, Conrad Black, said in an email Friday that it "doesn't take long" for the revocation process to work. He added Cruz ... «CBC.ca, Jan 14»
Desire or dharma: Dilemma that is as old as the vedas
In the earlier Upanishadic period, our society's idea of the good life was challenged by the “renouncer.” Rishis like Agastya suffered sexual anxiety over losing ... «Times of India, Dec 13»
Speedy crossword No 947
1 Knowing, sly (4); 3 Religious renouncer (8); 9 Out of control (7); 10 Out of date (5); 11 Asinine (5); 12 Unrhymable word? (6); 14 Slightly deaf (4,2,7) ... «The Guardian, Nov 13»
DIY 'Record Label' Returns:
Featured bands have included Renouncer, Sweet Sweet Scum, Libraries, Rio Bravo, Gypsy Fire, Mike Blair and the Stonewalls, Justin Lacy and the Swimming ... «encore Online, Sep 13»
God Just Left The Gurdwara
The mutiny of a renouncer that was Bidhi Chand and the lingering doubts it left about the politics of the Gurus. PART I. THE SUN WAS BARELY OVER the ... «The Newslaundry, Jun 13»
