concept

Asceticism

Beliefs & concepts

Disciplined renunciation of comfort for spiritual ends. Not fasting as the bare act alone, and not tapas as Indic heat alone.

Buddhist traditions

  • Asceticism appears in Buddhist traditions.

    Watson’s Lotus Sūtra discusses austere śrāvaka and pratyekabuddha disciplines while ranking them under the one buddha-vehicle. Asceticism speech in that sūtra, not fasting as the bare act alone and not a generic self-denial dump.

    from Burton Watson (translation) · The Lotus Sutra, 1993 (this translation); Sanskrit/Chinese recensions much older

    appears in · sourced · documented

sources

  • The Lotus Sutra · Burton Watson (translation)

    Burton Watson, The Lotus Sutra.