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Example sentences for: ascetic

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The very remoteness of Tohoku was appealing to such religious groups as the Zen Buddhists, who espouse an ascetic, unworldly life and constructed some of the country’s finest Buddhist temples in this northern part of Honshu.
Koyasan was already known as a sacred site for ascetic practices when Kobo Daishi, a revered Buddhist priest, teacher, and scholar, received imperial permission to establish a religious community to develop his new Shingon sect in 816.
He, too, abandoned riches to become an ascetic.
Was he a "sheeted ascetic & do-gooder" or a "major influence" on mass movements everywhere?
Members are portrayed as ascetic and hard-nosed, men you can respect even if you don't agree with them.