Word: sannyasi
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...efforts were impressively productive. In China, Father Matteo Ricci put on the dress of a Confucian scholar and won widespread respect both for his scientific expertise and for the wisdom of Catholic teaching. In India, Father Roberto de Nobili assumed the saffron robes and vegetarian diet of a Hindu sannyasi, or holy man. He used the Hindu vedas to teach about Christ and won converts among the Brahmans themselves...
...Spaniard, was an exhibit of religious art from Roman Catholic mission fields. Traditionalist Spaniards looked with anger upon the freedom with which the faraway artists had rendered scantily clad Virgins, Chinese Holy Families, Indian Gods squatting Buddha-like-all dominated by a huge statue of Christ dressed as a sannyasi (Hindu ascetic) renouncing this world...
...column in Madrid's Arriba, Critic d'Ors led off for the conservatives: "How can we conceive of Jesus disguised as a sannyasi floating on a lotus lily, symbolizing renunciation of the world He came to save?...or the Conception as an almond-eyed beauty scantily clad in a sari?...The Church universally is based on unity of language, prayer and iconography...
Blessing with Ashes. Even such an agnostic as Jawaharlal Nehru, on the eve of becoming India's first Prime Minister, fell into the religious spirit. From Tanjore in south India came two emissaries of Sri Amblavana Desigar, head of a sannyasi order of Hindu ascetics. Sri Amblavana thought that Nehru, as first Indian head of a really Indian Government ought, like ancient Hindu kings, to receive the symbol of power and authority from Hindu holy...
Then they entered the house in dignity, fanned by two boys with special fans of deer hair. One sannyasi carried a scepter of gold, five feet long, two inches thick. He sprinkled Nehru with holy water from Tanjore and drew a streak in sacred ash across Nehru's forehead. Then he wrapped Nehru in the pithambaram and handed him the golden scepter. He also gave Nehru some cooked rice which had been offered that very morning to the dancing god Nataraja in south India, then flown by plane to Delhi...
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