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renounce
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renounce
Rare a failure to follow suit in a card game


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These range from the gentle asceticism and "creative frugality" commended by Jay McDaniel and the householder disciplines mentioned by Jeffery Long to the extreme austerities of some Hindu and Jain renouncers noted by Ramdas Lamb and Christopher Chapple.
Editorial by Pedersen, Kusumita P. / Cross Currents
This first chapter also recounts the origin and development of female renouncers in the Buddhist traditions of South and South East Asia, a movement which had a profound affect on the development of the Theravada movement in Nepal.
LeVine, Sarah and David N. Gellner. 2005. Rebuilding Buddhism: The ... by Locke, John K. / Contributions to Nepalese Studies
 
 
 
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