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Guardians of the Transcendent: An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community (Anthropological Horizons)

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 | #1850226 in Books |  University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division |  2002-11-30 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.77 x.77 x5.90l,1.09 | File type: PDF | 320 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Good Analysis albeit from a purely western perspective|By Champs|Very well detailed. Impressed with how much the author has been able to study and analyze the culture as an outsider. I felt that the book did not praise/appreciate the austerities of the nuns and was slightly on the negative side.|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| go| ||'Some of the best ethnographic writing I've seen in quite some time ... Wonderfully written, evocative, persuasive.' (Anne Meneley, Department of Anthropology, Trent University)|About the Author|Anne Vallely is a p

Itinerant white-robed ascetics represent the highest ethical ideal among the Jains of rural Rajasthan. They renounce family, belongings, and desires in order to lead lives of complete non-violence. In their communities, Jain ascetics play key roles as teachers and exemplars of the truth; they are embodiments of the lokottar - the realm of the transcendent.

Based on thirteen months of fieldwork in the town of Ladnun, Rajasthan, India, among a community o...

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