Ājīvika Ajivika (Sanskrit: आजीविक, IAST: Ājīvika) is one of the nāstika or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy. Believed to have been founded in the...
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Eastern philosophy (section Ājīvika)
Mīmāṃsā and Vedanta, and five major heterodox schools—Jain, Buddhist, Ajivika, Ajñana, and Cārvāka. However, there are other methods of classification;...
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Mankhaliputta) or Manthaliputra Goshalak (b. about 523 BCE) was an ascetic ajivika teacher of ancient India. He was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the...
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Indian philosophy (section Ājīvika philosophy)
major non-Vedic or heterodox (nāstika or sramanic) schools—Jain, Buddhist, Ajivika, Ajñana, and Charvaka. The āstika group embraces the Vedas as an essential...
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Determinism (section Ājīvika)
fundamental microscopic building material of the universe. In ancient India, the Ājīvika school of philosophy founded by Makkhali Gosāla (around 500 BCE), otherwise...
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Religion in ancient Tamilakam (section Ajivika)
coexistence of many denominations and religions: Vaishnavism, Shaivism, Ajivika and later joined by Buddhism and Jainism alongside the folk religion of...
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architecture of the Ajivikas, an ancient religious and philosophical group of India that competed with Jainism and became extinct over time. Ājīvikas were atheists...
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wood and other plant materials. The caves were used by ascetics from the Ajivika sect, founded by Makkhali Gosala, a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the...
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Gymnosophists (section Ājīvika)
austerities, shaved their heads, ate only fruit and milk and meditated. The Ājīvika went without clothes. Their antinomian ethics match those Pyrrho brought...
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Pundravardhana (section Execution of Ajivikas)
Ashokavadana, the Mauryan emperor Ashoka issued an order to kill all the Ajivikas (follower of nāstika or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy) in Pundravardhana...
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History of Jainism (section Ajivika)
subsequently, another order to kill all the Ajivikas in Pundravardhana. Around 18,000 followers of the Ajivika sect were executed as a result of this order...
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with the Buddhist order at Sanchi. Some Buddhist texts mention that an Ajivika astrologer or priest at Bindusara's court prophesied the future greatness...
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skepticism Achintya Bheda Abheda Advaita Vedanta Agnosticism Ajātivāda Ājīvika Ajñana Alexandrian school Alexandrists Analytic philosophy Analytical Thomism...
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meaning of these cravings, but they were unable to do so. Janasena, an Ajivika ascetic known to the empress's family, was able to interpret the meaning...
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Irreligion in India (section Ājīvika)
and five major heterodox (nāstika) schools of Śramaṇa —Jain, Buddhist, Ajivika, Ajñana, and Cārvāka. The four most studied Nāstika schools, those rejecting...
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Vishistadvaita), and unorthodox (nastika) systems, such as Buddhism, Jainism, Ajivika, Ajnana, Charvaka etc. as well as other schools such as Raseswera, Paninya...
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subsequently, another order to kill all the Ajivikas in Pundravardhana. Around 18,000 followers of the Ajivika sect were executed as a result of this order...
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Neoplatonism Church Fathers Indian Hindu Samkhya Nyaya Vaisheshika Yoga Mīmāṃsā Ājīvika Ajñana Cārvāka Jain Anekantavada Syādvāda Buddhist Abhidharma Sarvāstivadā...
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Tapas (Indian religions) (section Ajivikas)
that the Ajivikas performed severe penances and self-mortification as part of their Tapas practice. A mention of the ascetic practices of Ajivikas is found...
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Jainism), Bindusara believed in the Ajivika religion. Bindusara's guru Pingalavatsa (Janasana) was a Brahmin of the Ajivika religion. Bindusara's wife, Empress...
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sometimes referred to as heterodox schools, are Buddhism, Jainism, Chārvāka, Ājīvika, and Ajñana. However, this orthodox-heterodox terminology is a construct...
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Śramaṇa movement and a major rival of early Buddhism, Jainism and the Ājīvika school. They have been recorded in Buddhist and Jain texts. They held that...
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coincided with the flourishing of influential śramaṇa schools of thought like Ājīvika, Cārvāka, Jainism, and Ajñana. The Brahmajala Sutta records sixty-two such...
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languages Religion Dravidian folk religion Hinduism Jainism Buddhism Śramaṇa Ājīvika Charvaka Regions South India (Dravida) Sri Lanka South Asia People Dravidian...
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Charvaka Ājīvika Buddhism Jainism Ajñana...
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thrived within his realms and his descendants' empire. Buddhism, Jainism and Ājīvika gained prominence alongside Vedic and Brahmanistic traditions, and minority...
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Navya-Nyāya Gangesha Upadhyaya Vaisheshika Kanada Nāstika (heterodox) Ājīvika Charvaka Kashmir Shaivism Abhinavagupta Pratyabhijna Tantra Tamil Valluvam...
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"orthodox" (āstika) schools. However, śramaṇa traditions, such as Charvaka, Ajivika, Buddhism, and Jainism, which did not regard the Vedas as authoritative...
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