At first, flagellation became a form of penance in the Catholic Church, especially in ascetic monastic orders.

He took up the ascetic order of JEEYAR (Lion) at the age of 23.

Shrivijay later joined the ascetic order of Bhagavan Vasupujya.

For more than a decade, in his youth, he'd belonged to a moderately ascetic order much given to ecstatic dancing.

The Vedas are believed to have documented a few Tirthankaras and an ascetic order similar to the shramana movement.

Jaruzelski's unadorned Warsaw office reflects the almost ascetic order of the man.

At that time, he was ordained into the ascetic order and given the formal name Swami Brahmānanda Saraswati.

In 1966 she received her Jangama initiation as an ascetic in the Lingayat order of wandering mendicants.

Jains have an organised ascetic order of monks and nuns.

This is art about urban life that for some is akin to joining one of the more ascetic religious orders.