avadhuta
अवधूत avadhūtaThe 'cast-off one': a liberated ascetic who has shed all convention, caste and social role, living beyond ordinary rules and beyond even the formal order of sannyasa.
Where this term appears
- The Aghorīs Lineages
The Aghorīs are a small Śaiva ascetic tradition of the cremation ground, who worship Shiva in his Aghora, or 'non-terrible,' aspect. Their transgressive practices,…
- The Nāth Sampradaya Lineages
…de the settled brahmanical world of caste and Vedic ritual, a band of avadhutas , "cast-off ones," who have shrugged off the categories that bind ordinary society.
- A genre that was always bilingual Treatise
…, take this to be the Kāpālika doctrine; it is not so, ours being the Avadhūta doctrine, the doctrine of the one who has shaken off all bonds; but the Kāpālika doctrine too was revealed by the Nātha, and the pr…
- Śavaripa the hunter Treatise
Dvivedī prints them in 1950, and adds the compiler's own framing: the Nāth position is the Avadhūta doctrine, and the Kāpālika doctrine too was revealed by the Nātha.
- The name on everybody's lips Treatise
It is doctrinal: the Nātha lineage, the nine Nāthas, the avadhūta , the date of Gorakṣanātha.
- The Nuclear Scientist and the Temple Treatise
… himself in the lineage descending through Sri Swaprakasananda Tirtha Avadhuta (Dattatreya line) and through teachers in the broader Bhaskararaya parampara, had decided to let in everyone.
- Kin and cousins Treatise
There is Dattatreya , the wandering avadhuta , the realised being who has gone beyond all rules and observances, naked to convention, the living image of the state in which pure and impure no longer apply.