SEEKERS OF THE NAKED TRUTH:
COLLECTED WRITINGS ON THE GYMNOSOPHISTS AND RELATED SHRAMANA RELIGIONS
Updated October 30, 2010
BOOK I: BASIC SOURCES ON THE GYMNOSOPHISTS
PART I—TEACHINGS OF SAÑJAYA
1.
Paramahamsa-parivrajaka Upanishad 13
2.
Samaññaphala Sutra 14
3.
Brahmajala Sutra 16
4.
Sutrakritanga 18
PART II—GREEKS MEET THE GYMNOSOPHISTS
5.
Strabo 20
6.
Arrian 24
7.
Plutarch 26
8.
Apuleius 27
PART III—SKEPTIC PHILOSOPHERS
9.
Diogenes Laertius 30
10.
Eusebius 32
11.
Sextus Empiricus 33
PART IV—VEGETARIANISM
12.
Theophrastus 38
13.
Pliny the Elder 38
14.
Porphyry 39
15.
Jerome 40
PART V—DEATH BY FIRE
16.
Aelian 42
17.
Cicero 42
18.
Nicolaüs Damascenus 43
19. St.
Paul 44
20.
Lucian 45
PART VI—ENCRATITE CHRISTIANS
21.
Hippolytus 49
22.
Clement of Alexandria 50
23.
Pseudo-Thomas 51
PART VII—WESTERN FICTIONS
A—QUIZZES
24.
Plutarch 55
25.
Pseudo-Callisthenes 56
26. The
Babylonian Talmud 58
B—WISE PROTO-CHRISTIANS
27.
Hippolytus 61
28.
Pseudo-Palladius 62
29.
Pierre Abelard 75
30.
Vincent of Beauvais 76
C—LETTERS
31.
Philo Judaeus 79
32.
Collatio cum Dindimo. 79
33.
Daniel Foote 87
D—NATURAL LIVING IN A
NATURAL PARADISE
34. Dion
Chrysostom 93
35. St.
Augustine 94
36.
Philippe de Mezieres 95
37. Sir
John Mandeville 97
38. Sir
Thomas More 99
39.
Henry Neville 100
PART VIII—EASTERN FICTIONS
A—ANCIENT TALES OF EXOTIC
TRAVEL
40.
Philostratus 102
41.
Heliodorus 106
42.
History of the Rechabites 109
43. The
Jerusalem Talmud 112
B—VARIATIONS ON WESTERN
FICTIONS
44.
Ethiopian variant on Pseudo-Callisthenes. 115
45. The
Quran 117
46.
al-Mubashshir ibn Fatik 118
47.
Jewish Reinterpretation of the Collatio 118
48.
Immanuel ben Jacob Bonfils 120
C—GENEALOGY OF IDEAS
49.
Clearchus of Soli 124
50.
Ammianus Marcellinus 125
51.
Pseudo-Ammonius 125
52. Book
of the Mystery of Creation 127
53.
Averroes 128
D—LATER STORYTELLING
54.
Sefer Alexandrus Mokdon 132
55.
Yaqubi 133
56.
al-Masudi 133
57.
Firdausi 137
58. The
Iskandarnamah. 140
59.
al-Ghazali 141
60.
Nizami 142
PART IX—ADAMITES
A—DISTORTIONS OF HISTORICAL
FACT
61.
Epiphanius 146
62.
Lawrence of Brezova 148
63.
Aeneas Sylvius [Pope Pius II] 150
64.
Pierre Bayle 151
65.
Isaac de Beausobre 152
B—FICTIONS: LONDON 1641
66. A
Nest of Serpents Discovered 156
67. The
Adamites Sermon 159
68.
Bloudy Newse from the North 162
PART X—FREEMASONRY AND THEOSOPHY
69.
Albert Gallatin Mackey 166
70.
Albert Pike 166
71.
Helena P. Blavatsky 167
PART XI—MODERN FICTIONS
A—VOICES OF REASON
72.
Voltaire 170
73.
Robert Dodsley 172
74.
Christoph Martin Wieland 173
75.
Gustave Flaubert 175
76.
Vikram Chandra 177
77.
Umberto Eco 181
B—NEVER-ENDING VERSIONS OF
THE ALEXANDER STORY
78.
Klaus Mann 186
79. Mary
Renault 191
80.
Valerio Massimo Manfredi 198
81.
Steven Pressfield 210
PART XII—NATURISM
82.
Maurice Parmalee 212
83. Carl
W. Werner 213
84.
Enrico S. Molnar 216
85. Paul
LeValley 219
BOOK II: COLLECTED ESSAYS ON SHRAMANA RELIGIONS
PART XIII—GYMNOSOPHISTS
What Happened
at Taxila? 224
What Did the
Gymnosophists Believe? 240
Jewish and
Islamic Tales of the Gymnosophists 257
Gymnosophy,
Past, Present, and Future 265
PART XIV—EARLY SHRAMANAS IN GENERAL
Common Ground:
Greek Athletics Among Indian Ascetics 273
Greek
Influence on Indian Sculptures as Early as Alexander's
Campaign 292
PART XV—BUDDHISTS
Gandharan
Art—A Reconciliation 312
Buddhist Sand
Mandala Explained 323
Physical and
Spiritual Love 328
PART XVI—JAINS
The Jains:
Keeping Your Mind Clear by Keeping Your Body Free 335
Sravana
Belgola 344
Jain Revival
of the Greek Sculptural Style 346
Possible Jain
Influence on a Medieval English Alexander Manuscript
365
PART XVII—SUMMARY
Naked
Ascetics: Some Observations on the Shramana Religious Spectrum
381
APPENDICES
Asia and
Western Arts 393
A Note on the
Illustrations 398
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
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