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Monastic Wanderers - Nath Yogi Ascetics in Modern South Asia (Hardcover)
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Monastic Wanderers - Nath Yogi Ascetics in Modern South Asia (Hardcover)
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How have the premodern Shaiva ascetic sect of the Nath Yogis (known
also as the Yogis with splitted ears) succeeded in maintaining its
presence and importance until today? This book intends to give a
general survey of this sampradaya which is said to have been
founded by the Siddha Gorakhnath, known for his strong link to
Hatha Yoga. However, rather than to Yoga, the history and expansion
of the Nath sect are linked to its rich legendary corpus. Dealing
first with the marks of belonging (such as the huge earrings worn
by the fully initiated Yogis) which give the sect its unity, the
book then focuses on its organization and explores the dialectics
between the wandering Yogis and the monastic settlements. The Nath
monasteries belong to two categories: the pancayati maths,
collectively owned and managed by the sectarian authorities, which
ensure the permanency of the sect, and the niji maths, owned on a
personal basis and transmitted from guru to disciple, which permits
innovative initiatives The book gives a detailed account of two
pancayati monasteries, the Kadri Math of Mangalore where its head's
enthronement is spectacularly performed every twelve years, and the
Caughera Math of Dang Valley in Nepal, the royal foundation of
which gives a glimpse of the complex relationships that can exist
between monasteries and kingdoms. It then focuses on three niji
maths: Amritashram in Fatehpur (Rajasthan), Ashtal Bohar in Rohtak
(Haryana) and the Gorakhpur mandir (UP). Each of them shows a
different mode of adaptation to a modern context and attests of the
present importance and continuity of this pluri-secular tradition
of asceticism.
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