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Guardians of the Transcendent

An Ethnography of a Jain Ascetic Community

by Anne Vallely

An ethnographic study of the nuns of the Shvetambara Terapanth order, based on extended fieldwork in Rajasthan. Vallely describes the daily discipline, ideals and institutional life of the renouncers and the ways the order has adapted to the modern world, including its samani novices and Preksha meditation.

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