Word: asceticism
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First gift announced by the Rockefeller-endowed Philippine foundation named for the late President Ramon Magsaysay: $10,000 to India's gentle, bearded Vinoba Bhave (TIME, May 11, 1953), for community leadership. A dhoti-clad disciple of Mohandas Gandhi, Ascetic Bhave seven years ago set out walking the land...
The director, Ingmar Bergman, handles even details--footmen, puddles, wheatfields--skillfully. He even wields symbols with wit, as in the scene in which the son, an ascetic would-be minister, finally renounces not the world for God but God for the world; the flimsy curtain into which the son is...
Sadhu is the Sanskrit word for "straight," and the straight-living, ascetic sadhus of India were once the bearers of Hindu holiness. Robed in saffron or stark naked, smeared with ashes or painted vermilion, shaven bald or mat-haired, they wandered through the world with their begging bowls, dispensing sacred...
Twentieth Century: In CBS's Gandhi, the scrawny, jug-eared little man in the white loincloth looked as Author John Gunther once saw him: an inscrutable "combination of Jesus Christ, Tammany Hall, and your father." Fuzzy images from old films showed the gentle ascetic all but engulfed by the...
Of Heliodorus himself almost nothing is known except that he was a Hellenized Phoenician who, thinks Translator Hadas, may have had an admixture of Negro blood. There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists, an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to...