Matthew James Clark is a scholar of Hindu asceticism, and this Brill monograph is his scholarly study of the Dashanami order of renunciate ascetics traced to Adi Shankara's ten-name lineage, examining how originally diverse ascetic lineages were integrated into a single organized order over time. Its strength is close attention to institutional history and lineage structure, rare in more devotional accounts of the order. Its limit is that it focuses specifically on the Dashanami organizational structure, so a claim about a related but distinct order, such as the Ramanandi Vaishnava ascetics, needs a source specific to that separate tradition rather than an extension of this study.
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Published by Brill, a leading academic press for religious studies, as Matthew James Clark's scholarly study of the Dashanami ascetic order, peer reviewed university-level scholarship. NotesAdded for Dashanami and Ramanandi orders, 2026-07-22.
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AuthorMatthew James Clark
PublisherBrill
Publication Year2006
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (30 claims)
This source backs 30 claims across the atlas. As facts: 26 well-attested. As cited relationships: 2 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Organizations, 19 claims: 15 well-attested, 2 holds, 2 general references.
- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
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