Ājīvika Ajivika (Sanskrit: आजीविक, IAST: Ājīvika) is one of the nāstika or "heterodox" schools of Indian philosophy. Believed to have been founded in the...
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Eastern philosophy (section Ājīvika)
Mīmāṃsā and Vedanta, and five major heterodox schools—Jain, Buddhist, Ajivika, Ajñana, and Cārvāka. However, there are other methods of classification;...
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Indian philosophy (section Ājīvika philosophy)
major non-Vedic or heterodox (nāstika or sramanic) schools—Jain, Buddhist, Ajivika, Ajñana, and Charvaka. The āstika group embraces the Vedas as an essential...
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Determinism (section Ājīvika)
fundamental microscopic building material of the universe. In ancient India, the Ājīvika school of philosophy founded by Makkhali Gosāla (around 500 BCE), otherwise...
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wood and other plant materials. The caves were used by ascetics from the Ajivika sect, founded by Makkhali Gosala, a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the...
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Gymnosophists (section Ājīvika)
austerities, shaved their heads, ate only fruit and milk and meditated. The Ājīvika went without clothes. Their antinomian ethics match those Pyrrho brought...
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Mankhaliputta) or Manthaliputra Goshalak (b. about 523 BCE) was an ascetic ajivika teacher of ancient India. He was a contemporary of Gautama Buddha, the...
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History of Jainism (section Ājīvika)
Digambara sect originated from Ājīvika and not Mahavira owing to their complete nudity which was also a characteristic of Ājīvika ascetics as described in canonical...
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