by several Greek authors. There were also gymnosophists in Upper Egypt who were called Ethiopian Gymnosophists by Apollonius of Tyana. In Greek literature...

geographer Strabo. Early advocates of naked yoga in modern times include the gymnosophists such as Blanche de Vries, and the actress and dancer Marguerite Agniel...

the Great on his Indian campaign, "so that he even went as far as the Gymnosophists in India and the Magi" in Persia. Returning to Elis, he lived in poor...

Alexander, saying that man's desire cannot be satisfied by such gifts. The gymnosophists believed that even if Alexander killed them "they would be delivered...

Great's army where Pyrrho was said to have studied with the magi and the gymnosophists, and where he may have been influenced by Buddhist teachings, most particularly...

in addition to the Egyptians, Pythagoras also studied under sages or gymnosophists in India. Iamblichus expands this list even further by claiming that...

was guru of Kalanos, the noted gymnosophist, who accompanied Alexander to Persis. When Alexander met some gymnosophists, who were of trouble to him, he...

Perhaps of importance were tales of Indian philosophers, known as gymnosophists, who had adopted a strict asceticism. By the 5th century BC, the sophists...

Buddhism, and Sikhism, as well as in many new religious movements. Gymnosophists Jagad guru world guru or world teacher Mahamandaleshwar Mahant Head...

had a good deal of information on India and Indians. He speaks of the Gymnosophists of India, the Indian Ocean, the river Ganges etc., a number of times...