austerity, ascetic". The śramaṇa tradition includes primarily Jainism, Buddhism, and others such as the Ājīvika. The śramaṇa religions became popular...
73 KB (8,875 words) - 16:16, 10 August 2024
Yoga (section Buddhism and the śramaṇa movement)
during the fifth and sixth centuries BCE in ancient India's ascetic and Śramaṇa movements. The most comprehensive text on yoga, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali...
135 KB (15,010 words) - 17:16, 8 August 2024
was the wife of Prince Siddhartha — until he left his home to become a śramaṇa— the mother of Rāhula, and the sister of Mahaprajapati Gautami. She later...
18 KB (1,953 words) - 20:36, 17 July 2024
thematic nominal derivative from the root śrami 'toil' (< PIE *ḱremh2, cf. śramaṇa) with the prefix ā 'towards.' An ashram is a place where one strives towards...
6 KB (509 words) - 00:12, 11 July 2024
Upanishads, and outside of the Vedic tradition through the Śramaṇa movements. The term Śramaṇa refers to several Indian religious movements parallel to...
245 KB (27,308 words) - 23:44, 14 August 2024
lust, craving and desires". (See also sangha, bhikkhu, bhikkhuni, and śramaṇa.) In Christianity, some denominations have a tradition of renunciation...
7 KB (718 words) - 17:55, 2 June 2024
Kālāma/ Arāḍa Kālāma]), was a hermit and a teacher of meditation. He was a śramaṇa and, according to Buddhist scriptures, the first teacher of Gautama Buddha...
4 KB (387 words) - 16:01, 7 July 2024
mythology. The Buddha's lifetime coincided with the flourishing of influential śramaṇa schools of thought like Ājīvika, Cārvāka, Jainism, and Ajñana. The Brahmajala...
230 KB (26,194 words) - 20:05, 28 July 2024
of sixteen oligarchic republics known as Mahajanapadas; the rise of the Śramaṇa movement; the birth of Jainism and Buddhism in the 6th century BCE, and...
84 KB (7,578 words) - 15:02, 14 August 2024
are together classified as the six "orthodox" (āstika) schools. However, śramaṇa traditions, such as Charvaka, Ajivika, Buddhism, and Jainism, which did...
112 KB (13,584 words) - 22:54, 6 July 2024
The Six Heretical Teachers, Six Heretics, Six Śramaṇa, or Six Tirthikas (false teachers) were six sectarian contemporaries of Gautama Buddha (Śākyamuni)...
9 KB (1,029 words) - 02:43, 19 February 2024
Zarmanochegas (redirect from Sramana Bargosa)
to Dio Cassius) was a gymnosophist (naked philosopher), a monk of the Sramana tradition (possibly, but not necessarily a Buddhist) who, according to...
13 KB (1,602 words) - 13:58, 9 November 2023
Valley Civilisation Historical Vedic religion Dravidian folk religion Śramaṇa Tribal religions in India Traditional Itihasa-Purana Epic-Puranic royal...
105 KB (12,186 words) - 21:40, 8 August 2024
influenced both the āstika and nāstika traditions of Indian philosophy. The Śramaṇa movement gave rise to diverse range of heterodox beliefs, ranging from...
36 KB (3,430 words) - 12:56, 2 August 2024
500 BCE Kuru Kingdom, c. 1200 - c. 500 BCE Early Vedic Period Rise of Śramaṇa movement Later Vedic Period Spread of Jainism – Parshvanatha Spread of...
57 KB (5,213 words) - 03:26, 15 August 2024
this heterodox school of Indian philosophy, annoverated among the other Śramaṇa movements that emerged in India during the Second urbanization (600–200...
85 KB (10,635 words) - 21:49, 15 July 2024
Atheism and agnosticism have a long history in India and flourish within the Śramaṇa movement. Indian religions like Jainism, Hinduism and Buddhism consider...
67 KB (6,916 words) - 11:21, 13 August 2024
2007, p. 52; Hiltebeitel 2002, p. 3; Jones & Ryan 2007, p. xviii) the śramaṇa or renouncer traditions of northeastern India (Flood 1996, p. 16; Gomez...
301 KB (31,253 words) - 14:13, 9 August 2024
rise of true cities and large states (called mahajanapadas) as well as śramaṇa movements (including Jainism and Buddhism) which challenged the Vedic orthodoxy...
77 KB (9,308 words) - 03:01, 10 August 2024
arose out of the culture of the erstwhile Kuru-Panchala realm, while the śramaṇa tradition, which placed emphasis on the spiritual works, that developed...
7 KB (693 words) - 22:00, 28 July 2024
with a diplomatic letter on a skin in Greek, and one of its members was a sramana who burned himself alive in Athens to demonstrate his faith. The event...
19 KB (2,055 words) - 05:11, 7 June 2024
Valley Civilisation Historical Vedic religion Dravidian folk religion Śramaṇa Tribal religions in India Traditional Itihasa-Purana Epic-Puranic royal...
161 KB (16,639 words) - 03:56, 23 July 2024
539 BC: Achaemenid conquest of Babylon under Cyrus the Great South Asia: Śramaṇa movement and "second urbanisation" South Asia: Early Buddhism Europe: 509...
27 KB (1,651 words) - 19:50, 16 July 2024
Śuddhodana went to great lengths to prevent Siddhartha from becoming a śramaṇa, including banning him from leaving the home and surrounding him by women...
11 KB (1,004 words) - 02:49, 31 July 2024
Elamo-Dravidian languages Religion Dravidian folk religion Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Śramaṇa Ājīvika Charvaka Regions South India (Dravida) Sri Lanka South Asia People...
92 KB (8,613 words) - 06:52, 10 August 2024
Valley Civilisation Historical Vedic religion Dravidian folk religion Śramaṇa Tribal religions in India Traditional Itihasa-Purana Epic-Puranic royal...
127 KB (12,732 words) - 14:28, 8 August 2024
philosophy, and the ancient school of radical Indian skepticism. It was a Śramaṇa movement and a major rival of early Buddhism, Jainism and the Ājīvika school...
27 KB (3,977 words) - 14:46, 15 July 2024
Valley Civilisation Historical Vedic religion Dravidian folk religion Śramaṇa Tribal religions in India Traditional Itihasa-Purana Epic-Puranic royal...
66 KB (8,136 words) - 07:43, 28 July 2024
Northern India. The period between 800 and 200 BCE saw the formation of the Śramaṇa movement, from which Jainism and Buddhism originated. The first Upanishads...
254 KB (28,467 words) - 22:46, 11 August 2024
philosophies that arose from the Śramaṇa movement were Jainism, early Buddhism, Charvaka, Ajñana and Ājīvika. Indian Śramaṇa movements became prominent in...
76 KB (7,298 words) - 13:26, 30 June 2024