Talk:Aghori

message: Which is description of the sect and which is the individual?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 92.233.230.125 (talk) 12:10, 12 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Aghora/Aghori?

message: I am going to give this page a major overhaul. Sedusa66 06:05, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Major Overhaul

message: there was an article written from the perspective of the followers of Bhagwan Ramji http://www.aghor.org/ , which is not in line with what most people think of as Aghora but nonetheless is a valid and distinct lineage.  I plan on revamping this article, but someone seems to have either erased the other entry or redirected here; they deserve to be spoken for. Sedusa66 04:35, 9 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Aghor Sect

message: this article & aghoris need some merging...vPratheepps
:I merged the two articles. The disambiguation page "aghora" is still rather confusing. I think this article is in desperate need of attention from an expert. At the very least, it needs a great deal of reorganization. Fuzzform 19:49, 1 February 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: General

message: It appears a couple of Aghori priests have been arrested  as I mention there a couple of documentaries have been made about them. The Indian one, "Feeding on the Dead" is only 10 minutes long but I'm sure the one I've seen on British TV is longer. (Emperor 19:33, 11 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: In the news

message: The Aghori distinguish themselves from other Hindu sects and priests by their alcoholic and cannibalistic rituals. The corpses afloat on the river Ganges are pulled out and consumed raw as the Aghoris believe it gives them immortality and supernatural powers.
It is appalling. I am appalled. Is there any statistic on the population of these cannibal priests? One more thing I would like to know is how come these grotesque cannibal tribes survive in modern India despite a ban on such evils by the Union Government?Anwar (talk) 23:52, 11 April 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Cannibalism

message: Can we have some kind of definition as to what this term/name is supposed to mean?  It would seem to be implied that it is the name for a member of the Aghori, but I can't be completely unsure that it is supposed to refer to another group or some other specific. --Human.v2.0 (talk) 01:12, 7 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aughads 

message: I was watching Madventures and learned quite a bit about the Aghori, especially relating to human sacrifice, murder, and cannibalism directly from an Aghori priest. How would I cite the tv show?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Toxic Ninja (talk • contribs) 17:42, 30 July 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  How do I cite a TV show 

message: *...sexual practices with certain riders and controls help release one from sexual desire; 
What exactly does this mean? There is no citation on this entire section. Liz Read! Talk! 20:02, 6 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Clarification 

message: What is a "nondual" song? --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 19:10, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "nondual" song 

message: "The Aghori faces death as a very young child".  This seems to imply that either this is a caste, or that it recruits very young children.  What does this mean?  --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 20:41, 9 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  "as a very young child" 

message: This is not right at all. There's a big a big group in the Aravasi region that is against class system who call themselves Aghori too, but do not do traditional sacrifices and cannibalism, but start schools and orphanages. Could someone please note that? Fgedeckers (talk) 21:30, 21 October 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Population 

message: Hi. Shouldn't this article at least mention Aghor Yoga? RhinoMind (talk) 21:03, 6 December 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Aghor Yoga 

message: From my perspective, there appears to be three main areas for potential improvement. (1) The References Section: After having gone through each individual source, there appears to be a distinct lack of primary sources (see source 1, 3, 5, 8, and 10), citation repetition of source 7, link rot in source 8, and an unnecessary abbreviation of source 6. I recommend substituting the bad sources if possible (deleting them if impossible), cleaning up the abbreviations/repetitions, and adding more primary sources. (2) Clarity: Many of the sections appear to either omit important information, confuse the reader, or lack relevant information. For instance, "Beliefs and Doctrines" refers to Shiva as the "Supreme Being," a term which appears problematic in its Western origins. Furthermore, it mentions the "eight nooses" but fails to list/explain them all and states that "every person's soul is Shiva" without due explanation. This isn't limited to one section, as the "History" section appears light on a harder timeline and others share likewise issues, but I believe this can be remedied with clearer writing, more information, and a better understanding of what information belongs where. (3) Expansion: "Adherents," "Spiritual Headquarters," "Medicine," and others require a greater amount of information to justify their existences. Furthermore, I think the article would benefit from "Support" and "Criticism" sections, the kind found on other articles about world religions/sects. Gives both sides to people's reactions to the Aghori and provides a chance to expand on the legal, social, and intellectual reactions to the sect. In total, I plan to add about 2 sections, 400 words, and up to 12 sources (depending on my assessment of their quality post-vetting). If anyone wants to comment on these changes, check my proposed sources, or likewise, please let me know on this Talk Page or on my own Talk Page. 
Source List (unvetted; open to amendment)
1. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14616688.2020.1713877?scroll=top&needAccess=true (Nitasha Sharma, Cultural Geographer)
2. https://www.erudit.org/en/journals/teoros/1900-v1-n1-teoros03098/1040231ar/abstract/ (Nitasha Sharma, Cultural Geographer)
3. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.693.6704&rep=rep1&type=pdf (Lynn Holden, Comparative Mythologist)
4. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0069966715615023? (Ravi Nandan Singh, Sociologist)
5. https://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:806855/FULLTEXT01.pdf#page=65 (Terje Oestigaard, [?])
6. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/1743873X.2019.1610411 (Nitasha Sharma, Cultural Geographer)
7. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/j.ctt1pn7f4?turn_away=true (Ron Barret, Cultural and Medical Anthropologist)
8. file:///C:/Users/cb4a3/Downloads/IJCU11637784revised%20(1).pdf (Geetanjali Joshi Mishra, [?])
9. https://researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:33956/ (Alison Moore, Historian)
10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2842008?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents (Henry Balfour, Archeologist)
11. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.455.1771&rep=rep1&type=pdf#page=133 (Rochelle Suri, East-West Psychology; Daniel B. Pitchford, [?})
12. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00381-013-2204-7 (Anand N. Bosmia, Pediatric Neurosurgery)
Cmanke99 (talk) 02:35, 29 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposed Changes 

message: AghoriStories (aghoristories.com) is one of the most authentic resource to get real information about the Aghoris or Aghor sect in modern times. Repedia08 (talk) 13:23, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: https://aghoristories.com/? I suppose we could add it to the "External links" section. What do others think? Gawaon (talk) 16:11, 30 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  AghoriStories