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Why Do Ascetics Renounce Comfort?

Fasting, celibacy, silence, poverty, solitude and bodily discipline recur in ascetic traditions worldwide. Tradivior will ask why voluntarily giving up comfort became spiritually powerful and whether psychology and physiology explain…

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Why Do Jain Monastics Sweep the Ground Before Walking?

The small broom carried by some Jain monastics is not a primitive hygiene tool but an ethical technology of non-violence. Tradivior will investigate its textual and monastic history, ecological assumptions…