Asceticism (/ ə ˈ s ɛ t ɪ s ɪ z əm /; from the Greek: ἄσκησις, romanized: áskesis, lit. 'exercise', 'training') is a lifestyle characterized by abstinence from sensual pleasures, often for the purpose of pursuing spiritual goals. Ascetics may withdraw from the world for their practices or continue to be part of their society, but typically adopt a frugal lifestyle, characterised ...

Kuru (Sanskrit: कुरु) was a Vedic Indo-Aryan tribal union in northern Iron Age India, encompassing parts of the modern-day states of Delhi, Haryana, and some parts of western Uttar Pradesh, which appeared in the Middle Vedic period (c. 1200 – c. 900 BCE) and developed into the first recorded state-level society in the Indian subcontinent.. The Kuru kingdom decisively …

A yogi is a practitioner of Yoga, including a sannyasin or practitioner of meditation in Indian religions. The feminine form, sometimes used in English, is yogini.. Yogi has since the 12th century CE also denoted members of the Nath siddha tradition of Hinduism, and in Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism, a practitioner of tantra. In Hindu mythology, the god Shiva and the …

Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm / BUU-dih-zəm, / ˈ b uː d-/ BOOD-), also known as Buddha Dharma or Dharmavinaya (transl. "doctrines and disciplines"), is an Indian religion or philosophical tradition based on a series of original teachings attributed to Gautama Buddha. Originating in ancient India as a movement professing śramaṇa between the 6th and 4th centuries BCE, it gradually …

The Vedic period, or the Vedic age (c. 1500 – c. 500 BCE), is the period in the late Bronze Age and early Iron Age of the history of India when the Vedic literature, including the Vedas (ca. 1300–900 BCE), was composed in the northern Indian subcontinent, between the end of the urban Indus Valley civilisation and a second urbanisation, which began in the central Indo …

Śramaṇa (Sanskrit; Pali: ????????????) means "one who labours, toils, or exerts themselves (for some higher or religious purpose)" or "seeker, one who performs acts of austerity, ascetic". During its development, the term came to refer to several non-Brahmanical ascetic religions parallel to but separate from the Vedic religion.The Śramaṇa tradition includes primarily Jainism, Buddhism ...

El ascetismo es la doctrina filosófica o religiosa que busca, por lo general, purificar el espíritu por medio de la negación de los placeres materiales o abstinencia; al conjunto de procedimientos y conductas de doctrina moral que se basa en la oposición sistemática al cumplimiento de necesidades de diversa índole que dependerá, en mayor o menor medida, del grado y …

Yoga (/ ˈ j oʊ ɡ ə / (); Sanskrit: योग, lit. 'yoke' or 'union' pronounced ) is a group of physical, mental, and spiritual practices or disciplines which originated in ancient India and aim to control (yoke) and still the mind, recognizing a detached witness-consciousness untouched by the mind and mundane suffering ().There is a wide variety of schools of yoga, practices, and goals in ...

Tantra (/ ˈ t æ n t r ə /; Sanskrit: तन्त्र, lit. 'loom, weave, warp') are the esoteric traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism that developed in India from the middle of the 1st millennium CE onwards. The term tantra, in the Indian traditions, also means any systematic broadly applicable "text, theory, system, method, instrument, technique or practice".

Parshvanatha (Pārśvanātha), also known as Parshva (Pārśva) and Parasnath, was the 23rd of 24 Tirthankaras (supreme preacher of dharma) of Jainism.He is the only Tirthankara who gained the title of Kalīkālkalpataru (Kalpavriksha in this "Kali Yuga").. Parshvanatha is one of the earliest Tirthankaras who are acknowledged as historical figures. He was the earliest exponent of …