ashrama
आश्रम āśramaA stage of life in the classical scheme: student (brahmacharya), householder (grihastha), forest-dweller (vanaprastha) and renunciate (sannyasa).
Where this term appears
- The Four Ashramas: the stages of life Essentials
That is not how the four ashramas , the stages of life, are usually described.
- The Four Aims of Life (Purusharthas) Essentials
This is the scheme of the four ashramas , the stages of life, and the two frameworks are meant to be read together as a single design sometimes called varnashrama-dharma .
- The History of Sanatana Dharma: A Timeline History
Sanatana Dharma has no founder and no single date of birth. It is the cumulative tradition of the Indian subcontinent, built up over more than three thousand years,…
- What is Sanatana Dharma? Essentials
A classical life was likewise mapped into four stages, the ashramas : the student, the householder, the forest-dweller who withdraws, and the renunciate who lets go of all of it.
- The Dashanami Order Philosophy
On taking sannyasa , full renunciation, within the order, a monk receives one of ten surnames: Saraswati, Tirtha, Ashrama, Bharati, Puri, Giri, Parvata, Sagara, Vana, or Aranya.
- The Law of Manu Treatise
It lays out varnashrama-dharma , duty ordered by class, varna , and by life-stage, ashrama .
- The Samaya Tradition Treatise
…, Bharati , Tirtha , Aranya , Puri , Giri , Parvata , Sagara , Vana , Ashrama , the ten suffixes of the Sannyasa tradition Shankara established) who carry the practice forward in their own subsequent teaching.
- The Shankaracharya Tradition In The Modern Period Treatise
…n 1798 as the founding of a matha, and separately a single hint about ashramas , settled communities of renouncers; and that the first life to set out the establishment of four mathas by name is probably Cidvil…