Talk:Sannyasa

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Can anyone xplain to me why there are no pics of the budda here

[edit] Sannyassin vs Sanyasa

If I am not mistaken, the term Sannyassin was around a long time before Rajneesh brought it to the west. The Sannyassin should then redirect here. Sfacets 01:37, 26 April 2006 (UTC)

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Orthodox Hindus do not generally accept the claims of the followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh / Osho to be sannyasins, and often even find this claim insulting. Though Rajneesh took pains to distinguish his sannyasins from the traditionals, and called them neo-sannyasins, in practice that prefix is rarely used. The result is more like the co-optation of the name than a claim.

Rajneesh is not a hindu in the first place - he follows a mix of hindu, zen buddhist and jain views and traditions coupled with his own. Therefore it is not just "orthodox hindus" but technically they do not fall into the category of hindu sanyasa

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[edit] Samnyasin

The Sacred Paths of the East: Third Edition by Theodore M. Ludwig calls this term Samnyasin, and I have seen it spelled this way in other sources; maybe this should be added to the redirection page? Being new to Wikipedia, I'm not sure how to use it, or I would do it myself. Konamaiki 06:44, 6 August 2007 (UTC)

Sannyasin (similar spelling) already redirects to this article. I havn't come across Samnyasin as a popular spelling and get only 500 hits in Google, but will add it as another redirect page just in case. Thanks for pointing it out. Regards, Gouranga(UK) 08:13, 6 August 2007 (UTC)