Asceticism in Ancient India: In Brahmanical Buddhist Jaina and Ajibika Societies
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1st. ed.
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8185094641
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555p., 8.5 inch X 5.5 inch
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Asceticism is derived from a Greek work meaning training. The athelete was one trained and one might be an athelete in Virtue. So very early the ascetic became the spiritual athelete of Church History.” “Two quite different conceptions mingle in the history of asceticism. One of these preserves the original meaning of discipline of the body for some ultimate purpose, as when William James urges sacrifice to God and duty as a means of training the ...
