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Journal of Asian Studies (2024) 83 (4): 883–909.
Published: 01 November 2024
..., “delayed gratification,” and other elements of “inner-worldly” asceticism were functional in the early phases of modern economic development. 5. Weber's primary reference to this behavior came from the ascetic Protestants who tightly controlled and organized life in a “methodical-rational” manner...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1976) 35 (4): 611–625.
Published: 01 August 1976
... to pure drug or alcohol addiction. Compulsive sexuality can serve as an addiction, as can the practices of asceticism. It is striking that the main finding of addiction research is that the drug permits of a considerable degree of regression. This is precisely what we find in the case of the ascetic...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1968) 28 (1): 101–110.
Published: 01 November 1968
... that it generates, constitutes, in part, a "functional equivalent" to the "inner-worldly asceticism" that Weber and others have viewed as so important a factor in promoting economic and political rationalization in the modern Western world. Yet ascetic values are never ends in themselves. As important...
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in A Journey across Many Realms: The Shi Jun Sarcophagus and the Visual Representation of Migration on the Silk Road
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2021
Figure 11. Left: Shi Jun as an ascetic, N5 on the Shi Jun sarcophagus. Right: Prince Siddhartha practicing asceticism, banner painting on silk, from Cave 17 (“Library Cave”) at Dunhuang, Tang dynasty, British Museum.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 43 (1): 173–174.
Published: 01 November 1983
...Stuart Hart Blackburn Lustful Maidens and Ascetic Kings . By Roy C. Amore and Larry D. Shinn . New York : Oxford University Press , 1981 . xii, 186 pp. Story Sources, Bibliography. $14.95. Copyright © Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1983 1983 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 173...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1997) 56 (4): 1118–1119.
Published: 01 November 1997
... for producing felicity. But they lack human bodies, and lacking such, they themselves cannot achieve liberation. Only human beings who have practiced asceticism can. That logic makes ascetics worthy of worship although still alive; the 24 tlrthankars are more worthy although beyond its reach. Offerings made...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1994) 53 (2): 613–614.
Published: 01 May 1994
...Andrew O. Fort BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH ASIA 613 The Faith of Ascetics and Lay Smdrtas: A Study of the Sankaran Tradition of Srngeri. By Y O S H I T S U G U S A W A I . Edited by G E R H A R D O B E R HAMMER. Publications of the de Nobili Research Library, Volume XIX. Vienna: Sammlung de Nobili, 1992...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2010) 69 (1): 209–210.
Published: 01 February 2010
...Jan De Meyer Making Transcendents: Ascetics and Social Memory in Early Medieval China . By Robert Ford Campany . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2009 . xviii , 300 pp. $48.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2010 2010 Medieval Chinese...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1993) 52 (1): 3–21.
Published: 01 February 1993
... is often conveyed by a mantra and sometimes transmitted physically by means of water or sanctified powder. Occasionally a deity under the control of the ascetic is the agency of cure. In the popular hagiographies of these same ascetics,14 their power is linked directly to their asceticism (as yogbal...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1989) 48 (4): 770–786.
Published: 01 November 1989
... . Narayan Kirin . 1988 . “Spuds Mackenzie and Beds of Nails: Images of the Hindu Ascetic.” Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix. Narayan R. K. 1980 . The Guide . New York : Penguin Books . O'Flaherty Wendy D. 1973 . Asceticism...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (4): 931–944.
Published: 01 August 1975
..., the imprint of Confucianism on Tokugawa thought and culture was undeniably deep. Although the picture is sometimes overdrawn, Japanese historians constantly refer to Confucianism as the “rationalizing” force that transformed Japan from a religious and ascetic culture to a bureaucratic and secular one...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2019) 78 (4): 745–766.
Published: 01 November 2019
... away but also the attachment to particular places in other highly mobile worlds, including our own. The Līḷācaritra follows Cakradhar's ascetic peregrinations, as well as journeys made by the many people who came to see him or attempted to return to his presence (his sannidhān ). The text's attention...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2016) 75 (4): 891–911.
Published: 01 November 2016
... of the Cultural Revolution, he has remained an unapologetic defender of Mao and of the “Red Guard spirit” since the 1960s. In 1987, meanwhile, Zhang converted to an impoverished and ascetic sect of Chinese Islam, the Jahriyya, and since the 2000s he has become one of China's most prominent spokesmen for global...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1987) 46 (2): 255–277.
Published: 01 May 1987
... of the popular cult contains a harmonious blend of elements of archaic religion, Shinto, and Buddhism. From early times until the Meiji period, its organization was directed by a group of the mountain ascetics known as yamabushi , who lived on the mountain itself. A sad consequence of the Meiji Restoration...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1964) 23 (4): 507–512.
Published: 01 August 1964
... but a weak end. It was a healthy corrective to free-floating literary chinoiserie . Yet, if we may now take the professional standing of the Chinese field as granted, the time is past for texts to be used for spiritual athletics, ascetic proofs of honesty, and thoroughness in the abstract. We need...
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in A Journey across Many Realms: The Shi Jun Sarcophagus and the Visual Representation of Migration on the Silk Road
> Journal of Asian Studies
Published: 01 February 2021
Figure 3. Left: The Dipankara jataka , Gandhara, ca. second century CE, Metropolitan Museum. Right: Former incarnations of Shi Jun and Kang Shi before an ascetic Buddha, W1 on the Shi Jun sarcophagus.
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Journal of Asian Studies (1996) 55 (4): 975–976.
Published: 01 November 1996
... is that of the History of Religions. A number of authors have blended this approach with the perspectives of philosophical and psychological postmodernism and gender studies. Many essays have a rather loose relation to asceticism per se: some are about the theological ideas or nonascetic activities of famous ascetics...
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Journal of Asian Studies (2015) 74 (1): 230–231.
Published: 01 February 2015
...Tamara I. Sears The Hermit’s Hut: Architecture and Asceticism in India . By Kazi K. Ashraf . Honolulu : University of Hawai‘i Press , 2013 . xiii, 222 pp., 105 illus. $50.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2015 2015 Kazi Ashraf's new book...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1983) 42 (2): 442–444.
Published: 01 February 1983
.... By GANANATH OBEYESEKERE. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1981. xiii, 192 pp. Notes, Glossary, References, Index. N.p. Medusa's Hair is based on the life stories of nine Sri Lankan ascetics seven women and two men. Gananath Obeyesekere elicited these stories over a period of several years, gradually...
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Journal of Asian Studies (1975) 34 (3): 807–813.
Published: 01 May 1975
... the following chapter headings: IV. Siva and Brahma: Opposition and Identity, V. Siva and Kama, VI. Siva in the Pine Forest, VII. Siva as an Ascetic and Householder, VIII. The Control and Transformation of Desire, IX. Cycles of Asceticism and Sexuality, and X. Conclusion: The Pendulum of Extremes. In addition...
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