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Noun(1) member of a Hindu sect practicing gymnosophy (especially nudism

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(1) He accompanied Alexander the Great on his conquest of northern India, where he encountered Indian gymnosophists or naked wise men.(2) There was a probable purpose in his writing: to propagandize for the gentle philosophy of the gymnosophists , an obscure ascetic Hindu sect, and to proclaim the humanity, culture and martial skill of the dark-skinned Ethiopians.(3) Here I impart this gymnosophy (or nudist philosophy) both in words and artful pictures, which are themselves worth thousands of words.(4) The episode of Alexander's interview with the gymnosophists has come down to us in several versions, among which the one in Plutarch's Vita Alexandri is the most renowned.(5) After Apollonius has recognized a lion as a reincarnation of Egypt's last pharaoh Amasis, he sets out in the company of ten disciples for the Ethiopian gymnosophists .(6) But gymnosophy , as the early practitioners called it, has always enjoyed the tolerance of liberals, including in the early days from such luminaries as George Bernard Shaw and Vera Brittain (mother of Shirley Williams).(7) Then returning to Alexandria he made his way to Ethiopia to see the gymnosophists and the famous table of the sun spread in the sands of the desert.(8) It also be about that you constraint have the amply endowed gymnosophy in whisper to aid your power projecting the outlet practice upon that it will go through.(9) The third-century heresy-hunter Hippolytus included naked gymnosophists among the philosophers whose ideas threatened the true faith.(10) Following these initial contacts, tales of the holy men of India, known to the Greeks as ‘ gymnosophists ’, began to circulate in the Hellenic world.(11) One lineage of the family, apart from the second brother who was a blind snake-charmer, died out when, after migrating to the Punjab, they became sacred but doomed gymnosophists and crystal-eaters.(12) Among others to take a keen interest in the gymnosophists was Pyrrho, founder of the philosophical school known as the Sceptics.(13) There he is said to have encountered the ‘ gymnosophists ’ and ‘magi’ who were thought to have influenced his later philosophical views.(14) Gymnosophy was originally the doctrines of a sect of philosophers who practiced nudity and asceticism and meditation.

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