Month: May 2019

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Himalayan hermit

The “Himalayan hermit” is Swami Yogeshwarananda Giri, who presently teaches the Bhagavad Gita, the Upanishads, the Christian gospels, and meditation on occasional retreats. From his website:

He is a hermit monk of the Advaita Vedanta order of India, who has been living the contemplative life of a monk for the past 50 years. Often living in a cave during the summer at an altitude of 10,000 feet at Gangotri, near the source of the river Ganges.
Swami Yogeshwarananda has led a deeply contemplative life since the 1960s when he left home at the age of 22 to live a secluded life of a hermit. His early years were spent in a systematic study of the ancient Sanskrit scriptures, which was taught to him by other scholarly monks. He followed the tradition of monks, living an austere life in a hut at the foothills of the Himalayas on the banks of the sacred Ganges in Rishikesh. Also he spent 10 years in the interior of the Himalaya’s in Uttara-kashi with contemplative monks.

URL: https://himalayanhermit.com/

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Hong Kong “hikikomori”

South China Morning Post reports on the hikikomori phenomena in Hong Kong in an article titled “Hong Kong’s hidden youth: societal pressure driving city’s young into apathy and reclusiveness” and bylines: “Hikikomori trend is widely known in Japan, but receives little attention here, where up to 2 per cent of the population may be withdrawn.
Confucian societies are seen as more susceptible because of parental pressure and peer expectations.”

URL: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3009450/hong-kongs-hidden-youth-societal-pressure-driving; https://www.asiaone.com/asia/hong-kongs-hidden-youth-why-citys-young-are-becoming-recluses

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Hermit culture in China today

China-based news source Sixth Tone features and article, with video, titled “The Hermit Culture Living On in China’s Misty Mountains” with byline “Disillusioned recluses have come to the Zhongnan Mountains for centuries. Now, a government campaign threatens their way of life.” From the website:

In the past decade, thousands of young people like Zhang have come to the Zhongnan Mountains hoping to connect with around 600 modern-day hermits, or yinshi, according to estimates by Zhongnan Cottage, a local civic organization. Hermitic lifestyles have a long history in China: During the dynastic era, the term was applied to educated, conscientious men who fled from the social expectation to join what they perceived as a corrupt, immoral government and eked out poor lives in remote rural China. Occasionally, emperors rewarded hermits with high-ranking government positions, believing them to possess deeper wisdom than conventional officials.

URL: http://www.sixthtone.com/news/1003932/the-hermit-culture-living-on-in-chinas-misty-mountains; https://www.caixinglobal.com/2019-05-11/the-hermit-culture-living-on-in-chinas-misty-mountains-101414004.html

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TV Tropes: Hermits

TV Tropes describes itself as “the all-devouring pop-culture wiki,” a collection of tropes or types found in comics, anime, manga, fan fiction, live-action television, video games, and web-based animation. Among these tropes are hermits, but TV Tropes especially seeks out tropes in areas of popular culture that usually do not intersect with mainstream literature, film, or culture. A few examples from these latter categories are added, however. Brought to our attention by a friend of Hermitary.

URL: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHermit