The Two Sources of Indian Asceticism

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3968006
AutoresPatrick Olivelle, Johannes Bronkhorst (0000-0002-5223-4090)
Año1995
Volumen115
Número1
Páginas162
Fecha de publicación1995-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289
EditorialJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/605355
OpenAlexW2167190757
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas22

This study argues that the Indian Ascetic traditions have two independent sources, the one Vedic, the other non-vedic. This point of view has been expressed here and there in the scholarly literature, but it has never yet been argued in detail on the bssis of textual evidence. The primary evidence is as follows: Early Indian Literature - Primarily the Epics, Buddhist and Jaina Litrature - explicitly differentiates between two types of ascetics, who distinguish themselves from each other in their aims, as well as in various other respects

Ancient history · Archaeology · Arithmetic · Asceticism · History · Indian and Buddhist Studies · Indian History and Philosophy · Mathematics · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices