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{{trope}}
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The [[Hermit Guru]] lives on a mountain, in an ancient temple, or anyplace suitably remote. The guru is usually a male, but even the wise witch that lives in a cave could be considered a [[Hermit Guru]].
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== [[Anime and Manga]] ==
* [[Old Master]] Dohko from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''.
* Muten Roshi of ''[[
* In the ''[[Pokémon (
* Tibet in the ''[[
* Annerose von Grunewald from ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'' is a female example.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy/Mostly Harmless
* There are several in [[Discworld]].
** One in ''[[Discworld
** ''[[Discworld
** ''[[Discworld
* In one short fantasy story, a rich [[Jerkass]] decides he is going to be the first to climb an extremely dangerous peak in Nepal. He runs across a "wise man" in one of the villages at the base of the mountain and makes some comment about how the stupid natives admire the dirty, lazy, almost naked old man, the natives thinking the old man is wise. When {{spoiler|the [[Jerkass]] finally, after a great deal of effort, reaches the top of the mountain, he finds the Wise Man there. When the Wise Man asks how he got there, the stunned [[Jerkass]] just waves his arm, indicating the climb. The Wise Man says, "You walked??!?"}}
* In the [[Samuel Taylor Coleridge]] poem ''[[
* In the ''[[
* A staple character of the folklore of Asia. In one such tale, The Tiger's Whisker, a young woman seeks the aid of a wise old mountain hermit after her husband has returned psychologically damaged from war. She begs him for a spell to return her husband to his old, loving self, from the cold violent man he's become. The hermit says she must bring the whisker from a living tiger as an ingredient for such a spell. The young woman spends months gaining the tiger's confidence with food and patience before snipping its whisker. When she returns to the hermit he throws the whisker in the fire and when she protests, tells her that if she can use such patience to tame a tiger, surely she can do the same for her husband?
* The eponymous prophet of ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]] lives as a hermit in the mountains for ten years. The framing narrative begins when he descends to civilisation again, intent on spreading the wisdom he has acquired during his long contemplation. He is less than warmly received by the masses.
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* K'anpo Rimpoche/Cho Je from the ''[[
* A female version appears in ''[[
{{quote| '''Blackadder:''' I seek information about a Wisewoman.<br />
'''Young Crone:''' Ah, the Wisewoman... the Wisewoman.<br />
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* Eudy and Nessiah in ''[[Blaze Union]]''. It's played with, as neither of them is really isolated by choice.
* Does [[Knights of the Old Republic|Jolee Bindo]] count? The old Jedi did live in the Shadowlands for at least twenty years more or less by choice. [[Retired Badass|And he isn't rusty in the slightest]].
* The first weapon you can (and must) get in ''[[
* [[Fantasia
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* The [[wikipedia:Stylites|pillar hermits]] from late Antiquity would live atop a column of stone for years at a time. The most famous one lived on a pillar for 37 years until his death. So this is [[Older Than Feudalism]]. Rather ironically, they rarely succeeded very well at the "hermit"-bit. People from all over the nation tended to come to them pestering them with all sorts of holy questions, and sometimes threw rocks if they didn't like the answers.
** St. Anthony of the Desert spent most of his life living, well, [[Exactly What It Says
** This has continued in eastern Christianity. A Russian equivalent is the ''starets'', the elder who lives as a hermit and grows in wisdom and holiness, until he is sought out for his guidance (and by then, is usually willing to break his isolation).
** In the eighteenth and nineteenth century non-religious hermits were employed by the owners of stately homes in order to provide a living feature to a folly. Some hermits are still employed today for the purpose of novelty.
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