GUARDIANS OF THE TRANSCENDENT: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF A JAIN ASCETIC COMMUNITY

by Vallely, Anne

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Book description: University of Toronto Press, Toronto, 2002.. 296 pp, 8vo (9" H), soft cover. ISBN 080208415X B&w photographs, reproductions. "Itinerant, white-robed ascetics represent the highest ethical ideal among the Jains of rural Rajasthan. They renounce family, belongings, and desires in order to le. ad lives of complete nonviolence. 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 the author's thirteen months of fieldwo. r k in the town of Ladnun, Rajasthan, India, among a community of Terapanthi Svetambar Jains, (this book) explores the many facets of what constitutes a moral life within the Terapanthi ascetic community, and examines the central role ascetics play. i n upholding Jain moral order. Focusing on theTerapanthi moral universe from the perspective of female renouncers, Ann Vallely considers how Terapanthi Jain women create their own ascetic subjectivities, and how they construct and understand them. sel ve s as symbols of renunciation. The first in-depth ethnographic study of this important and influential Jain tradition, this work makes a significant contribution to Jain studies, comparative religion, Indian studies, and the anthropology of S. outh As ian religions." Fine..

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