Gods on Earth: The Management of Religious Experience and Identity in a North Indian Pilgrimage CentreBloomsbury Academic, 1988 - 310 pages A detailed historical anthropology of Ayodhya, which argues that religious values can reflect political and economic processes. |
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... live , or even profess to live , an ascetic life . I would opt for the term ' monk ' which , according to the Oxford English Dictionary , refers to a member of a community of men living apart from the world under religious vows and ...
... live , or even profess to live , an ascetic life . I would opt for the term ' monk ' which , according to the Oxford English Dictionary , refers to a member of a community of men living apart from the world under religious vows and ...
Page 79
... live there with his family . He remained abbot of the temple , however , and also succeeded in attracting lay disciples . Some of them know of his double life , but are not interested in it ; others are not aware of it , because they live ...
... live there with his family . He remained abbot of the temple , however , and also succeeded in attracting lay disciples . Some of them know of his double life , but are not interested in it ; others are not aware of it , because they live ...
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... live their secular lives in India's towns and villages and give part of their surplus to the sadhus , to enable them to follow their religious calling . The renouncing monk in the Buddhist tradition is therefore called bhikkhu ( one who ...
... live their secular lives in India's towns and villages and give part of their surplus to the sadhus , to enable them to follow their religious calling . The renouncing monk in the Buddhist tradition is therefore called bhikkhu ( one who ...
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Sarayu and the ghats | 9 |
The presence of | 18 |
The conjunction of time and place | 28 |
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