"The Pāli scriptures recognize and admit, alongside of monks of strict observance, an ill-defined category of ascetics (yogins, yogāvacaras, later yogācāras), who are at the same time saints and irregulars, schismatics or heretics."
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"They are referred to as men of the forest (āraṇyaka) or of cemeteries (śmāśānikas). Doing away with the novitiate and communal living, stringent in the practice of the rigorous rules of asceticism, they are professional solitaries and penitents, and thus thaumaturges."
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La Vallée Poussin (1909)
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