RELIGIONS
BUDDHISM
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Question
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Which of the following defines asceticism?
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A:A lifestyle which renounces comfort
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B:A Buddhist sect
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C:A Western response to Buddhism
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D:A practice of self-control which spread in Japan
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -noun. a person who dedicates their life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons.
Detailed explanation-2: -Asceticism may be specific to an individual, like the Nazirite who avoids wine, or may be a group practice, as Early Christians fasted before Easter. Abstention from food may be general in periodic fasting, or particular in avoidance of specific types of food and drink, as in the refusal to eat meat.
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