Two islands in India, one called Brahmin, and the other gymnosophist.
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I was speaking today with an unclothed Hindu religious, a parama-hamsa, on the steps of a Portuguese church, a true gymnosophist.
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So much of truth is got from being a gymnosophist and regarding your own toes with aloof abstraction on a sunny Christmas morning.
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Wickford became the birthplace of Naturism in the United Kingdom: in 1924 the English Gymnosophist Society was formed and had its home in the town.
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Dandamis (presumably Greek rendering of "Dandi-Svami") was a philosopher, swami and a gymnosophist, whom Alexander encountered in the woods near Taxila, when he invaded India in 4th century B.C. He is also referred to as Mandanes.
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A letter written by Kalanos to Alexander is preserved by Philo. A painting by Jean Baptiste de Champaigne depicts "Alexander the Great receiving the news of the death by immolation of the gymnosophist Calanus" is displayed at Chateau de Versailles et de Trianon, Versailles.
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Kalanos, also spelled Calanus ()Plutarch, Life of Alexander, §8 ( – 323 BCE), was a gymnosophist, a Hindu Brahmin and philosopher from Taxila who accompanied Alexander the Great to Persis and later self-immolated himself by entering into a Holy Pyre, in front of Alexander and his army. Diodorus Siculus called him Caranus ().Diodorus Siculus, Library, 17.107.1 He did not flinch while his body was burning.
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Apollonius of Tyana, SECTION X, THE GYMNOSOPHISTS OF UPPER EGYPT, by G.R.S. Mead, [1901,] In Greek literature they are mentioned in association with the Persian magi, the Chaldaeans of the Assyrians or the Babylonians, the druids of the Celts, and the priests of Egypt, etc. The Gymnosophist Riddle Contest (Berol. P. 13044): A Cynic Text? Philip R. Bosman, 2010 Some sources claim that famous figures such as Lycurgus and Democritus may have met them.
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Needham married the biochemist Dorothy Moyle (1896–1987) in 1924 and they became the first husband and wife both to be elected as Fellows of the Royal Society. Simon Winchester notes that, in his younger days, Needham was an avid gymnosophist and he was always attracted by pretty women. When he and Lu Gwei-djen met in 1937, they fell deeply in love, which Dorothy accepted. The three of them eventually lived contentedly on the same road in Cambridge for many years.
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With > the ambassadors came the Indian Gymnosophist, who committed himself to the > flames at Athens, like Calanus, who exhibited the same spectacle in the > presence of Alexander. Strabo adds (at xv, i, 73) > To these accounts may be added that of Nicolaus Damascenus. This writer > states that at Antioch, near Daphne, he met with ambassadors from the > Indians, who were sent to Augustus Caesar. It appeared from the letter that > several persons were mentioned in it, but three only survived, whom he says > he saw.
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When Gymnosophy is practiced by both sexes together it satisfies the normal desire to see the opposite completely, and furnishes the most natural form of human association. Thus the Gymnosophist is encouraged to develop beautiful and physical perfection instead of concealing ugliness with clothes. Gymnosophy is a way of life, aiming at maximum fulfillment through the cultivation of Nudism and Natural Living. It is not a new sect, but the outcome of a long tradition that has inspired many of the world’s thinkers and creative artists.
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Non Serviam is a 1945 poetry collection by the Swedish writer Gunnar Ekelöf. The title comes from the Christian phrase "Non serviam", which is Latin for "I will not serve" and is attributed to Lucifer. In the poems Ekelöf criticises the contemporary political climate of Sweden; in the titular poem he describes himself as "a stranger in this land", and in the satirical poem "Till de folkhemske" he ironizes the concept of Folkhemmet. Non Serviam includes three of Ekelöf's greatest poems: Samothrace, Gymnosofisten (the Gymnosophist) and Absentia animi.
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Alexander the Great Receiving News of the Death by Immolation of the Indian Gymnosophist Calanus - Jean- Baptiste de Champaigne - 1672 He was seventy-three years of age at time of his death. When the Persian weather and travel had weakened him, he informed Alexander that he would prefer to die rather than live as an invalid. He decided to take his life by self-immolation. Although Alexander tried to dissuade him from this course of action, upon Kalanos' insistence the job of building a pyre was entrusted to Ptolemy.
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Chariclea, the daughter of King Hydaspes and Queen Persinna of Ethiopia, was born white through the effect of the sight of a marble statue upon the queen during pregnancy (an instance of the theory of maternal impression). Fearing accusations of adultery, Persinna gives her baby daughter to the care of Sisimithras, a gymnosophist, who takes the baby to Egypt and places her in the care of Charicles, a Pythian priest. Chariclea is then taken to Delphi, and made a priestess of Artemis. Theagenes, a noble Thessalian, comes to Delphi and the two fall in love.
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Zarmanochegas (Ζαρμανοχηγάς; according to Strabo) or Zarmarus (according to Dio Cassius) was a gymnosophist (naked philosopher), a monk of the Sramana tradition (possibly, but not necessarily a Buddhist) who, according to ancient historians such as Strabo and Dio Cassius, met Nicholas of Damascus in Antioch while Augustus (died 14 AD) was ruling the Roman Empire, and shortly thereafter proceeded to Athens where he burnt himself to death.Strabo, xv, 1, on the immolation of the Sramana in Athens (Paragraph 73).Dio Cassius, liv, 9. He is estimated to have died c.
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Map of Alexander the Great's empire and his route to India The term gymnosophist was used by Plutarch (c. CE 46 – CE 120) in the 1st century CE, when describing an encounter by Alexander the Great with ten gymnosophists near the banks of the Indus river in what is now Pakistan. Diogenes Laërtius (fl. 3rd century AD) refers to them, and reports that Pyrrho of Ellis was influenced by the gymnosophists while in India with Alexander the Great, and on his return to Ellis, imitated their habits of life and caused him to found the Hellenistic philosophy of Pyrrhonism.(ix.
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