Ascetics

Brahmajala Sutta (Theravada) - Eighteen Beliefs About The Past - Eternalistic Belief
... Ascetics and Brahmins who have reached a high level of meditation due to this achievement, they were able to remember from one to tens of thousands of their past lives ... Ascetics and Brahmins who have reached the spiritual achievements which provided them access to memories of one to ten iterations of the Earth's formation, evolution, and destruction ... Ascetics and Brahmins who have managed to recall the Earth's evolutionary process from ten to forty times ...

Swaminarayan Sampraday - Membership - Ascetics
... From the beginning, ascetics have played a major role in the Swaminarayan Sampraday ... The Brahmachari ascetics, who are Brahmins, have a special responsibility of taking care of images in temples ... These ascetics wear white robes on their waist and an orange cloth over their shoulder ...

Asceticism In Judaism - Essenes Not Ascetics
... Nor may the Essenes be classed among the order of ascetics ... that in them is to be found a genuine Jewish order of monks and ascetics ...

Jain Monks - Rules of Conduct
... A Jain ascetic has neither a permanent home nor any possessions, wandering barefoot from place to place except during the months of Chaturmas ... The Jain ascetics do not take food or water after sunset or before sunrise ... Gochari (Alm) Jain ascetics do not cook their food, do not get it prepared for them, or do not accept any food which was prepared for them ...

Dharma (Jainism) - Two Fold Path of Ascetics and Laypersons
... the path of the ascetics or mendicants ... is the religious path of the virtuous ascetics, where mediatation and study of scriptures is their primary duty ...