Thesiss

Late antique asceticism is a desert, filled with the hidden and unknown, the mysterious and undiscovered. Modern scholars have turned this desert into a library, with a ready-made card catalogue listing all the categories into which late antique asceticism should so neatly fit. …

Aghoreshwar Mahaprabhu Baba Bhagawan Ram Ji, a well-established saint of the holy city of Varanasi in north India, initiated many changes into the erstwhile Aghor tradition of ascetics in India. This tradition is regarded as an ancient system of spiritual or mystical knowledge b…