A Sanskrit term describing a person who renounces the physical world and lives a life of poverty as a means to avoid attachments (to people and things). This is believed to show devotion to the Divine and a spiritual path.
Readers, please enjoy this guest blog post by Pamela Chen and Samantha Blossom, authors of the new The Mandarin Tree.
As modern Asian American mystics, we love to work with the heavenly creatures, or what you may know as mystical beings in...