Guardians of the transcendent [electronic resource] : an ethnography of a Jain ascetic community / Anne Vallely.
Series: Anthropological horizons ; 22.Publication details: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c2002.Description: 1 online resource (x, 296 p.) : illISBN:- 9781442675544 (electronic bk.)
- 1442675543 (electronic bk.)
- Terehpanth (Jaina sect)
- Jaina women -- India -- Ladnun
- Asceticism -- Jainism
- Ascetics -- India -- Ladnun
- Ethnology -- India -- Ladnun
- Terâpanthî (Secte jaïna)
- Ascètes -- Inde -- Ladnun
- Ascétisme -- Jaïnisme
- Ethnologie -- Aspect religieux -- Jaïnisme
- Frau
- Jainismus
- Askese
- Askese -- Frau -- Jainismus -- Indien -- Rajasthan
- Terapanth -- Indien -- Rajasthan
- Rajasthan -- Terapanth
- RELIGION / Jainism
- 294.4/9 22
- BL1380.T4 V34 2002eb
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-291) and index.
Pt. 1. The ethics of renunciation -- Introduction -- Ethics and the ascetic ideal -- Pt. 2. The rituals of separation -- Creation through negation : the rite of Bhiksha -- The making of an ascetic : the construction of difference -- Death, demons, and desire -- Pt. 3. Being of the world -- The worldly life of renunciants -- Devotion and divinity -- Conclusion : ascetic women : the link in the Laukik and Lokottar -- Appendices. The fourteen Gunasthanas (stages of spiritual development) ; Rules and regulations in the ascetic life ; Examples of Sarala's poems (abridged) ; The ascetic ideal ; Examples of the Nivrtti-Marg : Jainism's public face ; The daily routine of the Sadhvis.
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