About Jatakas with the Ascetic Hero (based on “Jātakamālā”) by Maksimova Olga A.

“…In these stories, hermitage is associated with asceticism, virtue, and active spiritual practice. A number of Jātakas from the Pali corpus are devoted to the description of the virtue of the Sramanas and ascetics; references to the hermit are found in stories from the Panchatantra collection and in other collections. …”
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Kearifan Lokal dalam Hikayat Komering Pitu Phuyang by Dedi Febriyanto, Kiki Nurjana, Eka Anista, Dedi Mardiansyah

“…Local wisdom includes (1) Wangsa Buay Tumi's belief in tambo as a means of information that is believed to be true, (2) the belief system in Belaksa Kepampang and Ikahua as the embodiment of gods, (3) the tradition of giving adok as a form of appreciation, (4) ) the government system in the form of a kingdom, (5) the tradition of slaughtering virgins and virgins as evidence of worship of gods, (6) the caste tradition in royal family marriages as a symbol of honour, (7) the tradition of asceticism at the top of a mountain as a means of approaching oneself to the God, (8) society that has the principles of religious life, full responsibility, and hard work, (9) a residential system that reflects the breadth of the way the people think. …”
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THE THEME OF THE HEART IN THE BYZANTINE TRADITION, RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CULTURE AND RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHY by Ivan V. Makarov

“…Russian Orthodox culture reveals the theme of the heart in the ascetic tradition of asceticism, and Russian religious philosophy calls the heart the key to understanding the mentality of the Russian person. …”
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Phenomenon of Transfiguration and System of Motifs in I. S. Shmelev’s Story “The Kulikovo Field” by E. V. Paraskeva

“…Understanding the role of Sergius of Radonezh, whose feat was an example of asceticism and the revival of the moral sense of the people, reflects the number of historiosophical ideas of the writer, above all one of the fundamental positions of Shmelev’s anthropology: the historical transformation of Russia precedes the spiritual transformation of man. …”
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The functions of Buddhist practices in the works of L. Yuzefovich by Leonid V. Dubakov

“…Buddhist meditation on impurity reveals in Yuzefovich the problem of the opposition of creative and religious intentions: the hero of the novel “Prince of the Wind” chooses the path of asceticism, closing for himself the possibility of literary creation, which inherently multiplies samsaric images. …”
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Hermann Hesse – Monte Verità by Martin Radermacher

“…What renders possible an individual search for ultimate sense beyond traditional and institutionalized religions? Fasting and asceticism, »finding oneself« in voluntary deprivation, the adoption of non-Christian soteriologies – all are forms of an individual search for meaning, which emerged at the fringes of society around 1900. …”
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THE IDENTITY OF THE TERRORIST IN THE CONTEMPORARY WORLD by Mariana-Ana Bulmez

“…Using propaganda, Ben Laden proved to be a very dangerous and subtle adversary as he found the perfect means to promote his image in the Islamic world: the sickly fragility, gentle gestures, the austere background of his dwellings, the caves, the tents, all of whom made reference to the Prophet Muhammad’s route from Mecca to Medina, and which were perfectly adapted to the profound religious asceticism that made the faithful perceive him as a new, authentic prophet as well as a martyr for Islam. …”
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Entre a posição e as práticas: classes médias nas perspectivas de Erik Olin Wright e Pierre Bourdieu by Luís Fernando Santos Corrêa da Silva

“…However, Pierre Bourdieu's theory ofsocial space emphasising the symbolic dimension of class relations highlights some features that would be particular to middle classes, such as the moral rigidity the asceticism, valorisation of education and culture and the focus on individual merit as a form of upward social mobility. …”
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“Teaching” of Vladimir Monomakh as Synthesis of Ethical Traditions Byzantine Patristics and National Paganism by Anastasiia A. Volkova

“…A partial continuity of the Grand Duke’s views concerning the relationship to the categories of good and evil, as well as virtue and vice, with the Byzantine Christian tradition, in particular with regard to the “theory of three small deeds”, which is based on the theory of repentance of John Chrysostom, and the theory of “asceticism in the world”, based on the writings of Basil the Great. …”
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Victoria Ocampo : una esnob para el desierto argentino by Victoria Liendo

“…But what she really practiced with devotion and rigorous asceticism was the snobbism of modernity, whose specificities have gradually been lost in the collective, indiscriminate yet long-lived projection that eclipses her figure. …”
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The Ecclesiastical Symbols in Romanesque Art by Lina Mohamed Salah, Rasha Abdel Moneim, Hany Mohamed Mohamed Sabry

“…The Church followed the doctrine of asceticism and distance from the use of precious materials in construction. …”
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Muhammad ibn Knasa al-Asadi: his life, his poetry, remaining texts in the writing of his book Al-Anwar by Mohammed Mustafa

“…And yet, I see that the inactivity of this man’s mention is attributed to his asceticism, his pride in his dignity, and his distraction to the narration of poetry and hadith, far from the results of honor and authority. …”
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Mediated Tarekat Qadiriyah wa Naqshabandiyah in the Digital Era: An Ethnographic Overview by Zulfan Taufik, Muhammad Taufik

“…Even though TQN members’ being active in cyber-Islamic environments, they resist online asceticism thus leverage the vertical-personal obedience, conservative authorities, and sacred rituals. …”
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Another Narration of the Transformation of Sana'i's Poetry and Personality by Mahdi Zarghani, Amir Ardameh

“…The article demonstrates that contrary to common belief, the reason for Sanai’s departure from Ghazna was not his spiritual transformation towards asceticism and Sufism, but rather his failure to find admirers who could fulfill his material needs. …”
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La salle de bains Art nouveau du château Laurens à Agde (Hérault) by Bruno Montamat

“…And in its theatricality, this ceramic interior in fact expresses a subtle kind of symbolism in keeping with the spiritual theories of Laurens, the somewhat obscure ideas of a man who was an Occitan speaker and a great admirer of mythical Cathar asceticism, in which water had important purifying virtues. …”
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Rumi's query on Molavi's hadith in the book of infih-e Ma-fih and majales -e-sabeh by ALI bazvand, ARASH amrai

“…The historical course and spiritual journey of the idea of ​​liberation in Khorasan mysticism begins with liberation and freedom based on asceticism, worship and austerity, and through its evolution and expansion reaches romantic liberation (the way of love) and the destruction of the lover in the beloved…”
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The Soul in Jainism by Abulfadh Mahmoodi

“…The goal of a Jainism way – farer is to rid the soul of these layers of karma known as lesya and this is attained through asceticism and during the course of successive lives. …”
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خصائص أدب التصوف في المغرب الأوسط خلال القرنين: 6 و7 ه by Mokhtar HOCEINI

“… Characteristics of Sufism Literature in the Middle Maghreb during the 6th and 7th centuries AH ABSTRACT: Sufism was in the beginning asceticism, then it became love, then knowledge and closeness, then degrees and manifestations, then it became multiple tariqas. their features are determined by the Sheikhs, and the disciples are walk it, in Breeding their souls until it is transparent and sublime, and reach the degree of evanescence in the beloved, which is what made opinions about Sufism differ. …”
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Psychological Risk Factors for the Development of Restrictive and Bulimic Eating Behaviors: A Polish and Vietnamese Comparison by Bernadetta Izydorczyk, Ha Truong Thi Khanh, Małgorzata Lipowska, Katarzyna Sitnik-Warchulska, Sebastian Lizińczyk

“…Intercultural differences indicate that Vietnamese women show greater intensities for psychological variables, connected with restrictive and bulimic eating behaviors, verified in the research model: low self-esteem, personal alienation, interpersonal insecurity, interpersonal alienation, emotional dysregulation, interoceptive deficits, perfectionism and asceticism, and anxiety.…”
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O filosofickém eskapismu by Vaškovic, Petr

“…The last part of the study (iv) briefly outlines the various “escape vectors” from being that both philosophers offer: Schopenhauer demarcates the way out of being – towards nothingness – through asceticism, through the gradual mortification of all bodily and spiritual desires; Levinas, to the contrary, holds in his early texts onto the emotion of pleasure [plaisir], whose ecstaticity pointing to transcendence seems to be for him – however inadequate it remains – a pathway towards the exit from being; in his late work, Levinas then finds a solution in the turn towards ethics.…”