{"id":2823,"date":"2017-01-04T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/?p=2823"},"modified":"2016-12-27T10:04:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T09:04:59","slug":"digambara-the-naked-monks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2017\/01\/digambara-the-naked-monks\/","title":{"rendered":"Digambara. The naked monks."},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Naked monks.<\/h2>\n<p>Yeah, that got your attention, didn&#8217;t it? Naked monks. Yes, they exist. In India.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/d\/d1\/Acharya5.jpg\" width=\"560\" height=\"360\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acharya Vidyasagar, a prominent Digambara monk of modern India<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I was very surprised to find information about monks who are not allowed to wear clothes. Clothes are seen as embellishment and these monks don&#8217;t embellish themselves.<\/p>\n<p>This sounds all sweet and wonderful, but there is more to being a nude monk than not wearing clothes. If you love your big screen TV, kiss that goodbye when you become a Digambara monk.<\/p>\n<p>There is a Jain text that says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Salutation to the Ascetic (S\u0101dhu) abound in faith and knowledge, who incessantly practises pure conduct that surely leads to liberation.<\/p>\n<div class=\"templatequotecite\"><cite>\u2014\u2009Dravyasa\u1e43graha<\/cite><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"templatequotecite\">Don&#8217;t say I didn&#8217;t warn you.<\/div>\n<h2>Naked monks in Nepal<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nUsaCq12mEw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Attitude and&#8230; weather.<\/h2>\n<p>It may be obvious that you need the right kind of attitude to become such a monk as you have to give up\u00a0<strong>all<\/strong> worldly goods. You need to beg for food and you can own only the fewest bits of man-made utensils.\u00a0A Digambara monk is allowed to keep only a feather whisk, a water gourd and scripture with him.<\/p>\n<p>Also make sure you live in the right region. When you&#8217;re in an area where it gets cold it&#8217;s smart to choose another occupation. One that has heating and\/or clothes.<\/p>\n<h2>Sources.<\/h2>\n<p>Information for this post mostly came from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Digambara_monk\">Wikipedia<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quora.com\/Why-are-many-Hindu-and-Jain-monks-nude\">Quora<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naked monks. Yeah, that got your attention, didn&#8217;t it? Naked monks. Yes, they exist. In India. I was very surprised to find information about monks who are not allowed to wear clothes. Clothes are seen as embellishment and these monks don&#8217;t embellish themselves. This sounds all sweet and wonderful, but there is more to being &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/2017\/01\/digambara-the-naked-monks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Digambara. The naked monks.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12],"tags":[377,49],"class_list":["post-2823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous","category-nudism-2","tag-monks","tag-nude"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2824,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2823\/revisions\/2824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zjuzdme.org\/old\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}