Neo-sannyas
The Neo-Sannyas , also known as the Bhagwan Movement , is a non-ascetic form of Sannyas (a way of life determined by the spiritual search ) founded in 1970 by Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh (from 1989: Osho ), whereby the prefix Neo- in German is used in the The rule is no longer applicable and members of the neo-sannyas movement are therefore mostly simply referred to as sannyasins in Germany.
Relation to and difference to traditional sannyas
The Neo Sannyas movement was founded on September 28, 1970 when Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh initiated his first disciples and gave them a new name. B. Ma Dhyan Shama, men e.g. B. Swami Satyananda.
Until September 1985, neo-sannyasins all wore orange or red dresses and a mala (necklace) with 108 wooden balls and the picture of their guru - an appearance that until then had been the exclusive attribute of traditional Indian sannyasins . With the ensuing drapery of his neo-sannyasins, Osho wanted to establish a conscious alternative to the renouncement-shaped search ethic of the past. Accordingly, neo-sannyasins today often pursue a lifestyle that is outwardly hardly different from that of their social environment. The only defined elements remained awareness and meditation.
There is no longer an official initiation to become a Neo-Sannyasin; rather, everyone who is interested initiates himself.
literature
- Jörg Andrees Elten : Very relaxed in the here and now - diary about my life with Bhagwan in Poona . Innenwelt Verlag, 2000 (new edition, first edition 1979), ISBN 3-925205-94-2 .
- Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh . Studies in Contemporary Religion, Signature Books, 2002, ISBN 1-56085-156-2 .
- Gunther Klosinski: Psychological and psychodynamic aspects of religious conversion to new religious movements using the example of the neo-sannyas movement . Habilitation thesis, 1983.
- Joachim Süss: Bhagwan's legacy . Claudius, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-532-64010-4 .
- Joachim Süss: On the way to enlightenment: Neo-Sannyasin in Germany and their religion . Marburg studies in Africa and Asia, 1994.
- Anna Thoden and Ingemarie Schmidt: The Myth of Bhagwan - The History of a Movement . rororo non-fiction book 1080, 1987.
Web links
- Neo sannyas website
- Sannyas Wiki (Engl.)
- Osho International Foundation
- David Signer: Look around. To you or to me Die Weltwoche, edition 13/06
Individual evidence
- ^ Judith M. Fox: Osho Rajneesh . Studies in Contemporary Religion, Signature Books, 2002, p. 11.
- ↑ Example of a Zeit article that illustrates this usage
- ↑ Osho, From Bondage to Freedom , Chapter 17 ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Willamette Week Online, Portland, Oregon, article from February 2, 2000 ( memento of the original from October 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Neosannyas.org
