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Asceticism
- MonasticismOver 2500 years ago, the Buddha founded a community of ordained practitioners known as bhikkhus and bhikkhunīs. This Sangha emerged from earlier sects of…
- Cenobitic monasticismThe word cenobite emerged from the Greek terms koinos and bios, meaning common life. Ancient writers applied this label to followers of Pythagoras in…
- ĀjīvikaIn the 5th century BCE, a man named Makkhali Gosala stood at the center of a new religious movement in ancient India. He was born in the settlement Saravana…