Concept

Gymnosophists

Overview

ancient Indian vegetarian ascetics, mentioned in ancient Greek literature, who pursued asceticism to the point of regarding food and clothing as detrimental to purity of thought

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Gymnosophists

• Pyrrho
• Nagarjuna
• Pythagoras
• Hecataeus of Abdera
• Clearchus of Soli
• Bardaisan

Related ideas

• Ancient Egyptian religion
• Hellenistic philosophy
• Neopythagoreanism
• Outline of ancient India
• Ājīvika
• Pyrrhonism
• Pyrrho
• Lucian
• Cynicism (philosophy)
• Philo
• Taxila
• Pakistan
• Pythagoras
• Brahmin
• Plutarch
• Shiva
• Śramaṇa
• Indian philosophy
• Brahmana
• Śvetāmbara
• Babylonia
• Strabo
• Chaldea
• Apollonius of Tyana

Place in the tradition

Part of Buddhist philosophy.

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