* The Miscellaneous School, which integrated teachings from different schools ; for instance, Lü Buwei found scholars from different schools to write a book called Lüshi Chunqiu cooperatively.

Among these are treatises such as the Shikand-gumanic Vichar by Mardan-Farrux Ohrmazddadan, selections of Denkard, Wizidagīhā-ī Zātspram (" Selections of Zātspram ") as well as older passages of the book Avesta, the Gathas which are attributed to Zarathustra himself and regarded as his " direct teachings ".

The Emperor also ordered all copies of the Thalia, the book in which Arius had expressed his teachings, to be burned.

Rather than being written as history, the Deuteronomistic history – Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Samuel and Kings – was intended to illustrate a theological scheme in which Israel and her leaders are judged by their obedience to the teachings and laws ( the covenant ) set down in the book of Deuteronomy.

The book concludes by calling upon the teachings of Moses and by promising that Elijah will return prior to the Day of the Lord.

Advocates of the movement seek to highlight the deeply rooted teachings of equality in the Quran and encourage a questioning of the patriarchal interpretation of Islamic teaching through the Quran ( holy book ), hadith ( sayings of Muhammad ) and sharia ( law ) towards the creation of a more equal and just society.

Near the end of the book, Calvin describes and defends the doctrine of predestination, a doctrine advanced by Augustine in opposition to the teachings of Pelagius.

In his 1996 book, I Was Wrong, he admitted that the first time he actually read the Bible all the way through was while he was in prison, and that it made him realize he had taken certain passages out of context — passages which he had used as " proof texts " to back up his prosperity teachings.

The keystone work of literature in Taoism is the Tao Te Ching, a concise and ambiguous book containing teachings attributed to Laozi ().

His teachings are supposedly left behind in the book Lu Ban Jing ( 魯班經, " Manuscript of Lu Ban "), although it was written some 1500 years after his death.

In this book, Gutierrez combined populist ideas with the social teachings of the Catholic Church.

Paramahansa Yogananda an Indian yogi and guru introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.

The first book of Falun Gong teachings was published in April 1993.

The main body of teachings is articulated in the core book Zhuan Falun, published in Chinese in January 1995.

Vajrayana Buddhism is esoteric, in the sense that the transmission of certain teachings only occurs directly from teacher to student during an initiation or empowerment and cannot be simply learned from a book.

These fragments disappointed Romantic scholars as not matching the writer's great reputation, partly because Fronto's teachings, with their emphasis on studying ancient writers in search of striking words, were not in accordance with current fashion ( Italy, where not only Mai but Leopardi enthused over them, was an exception ), partly because they gave no support to the assumption that Fronto had been a wise counsellor to Marcus Aurelius ( indeed, they contain no trace of political advice ), partly because his frequent complaints about ill-health, especially those collected in book 5 of Ad M. Caesarem, aroused more annoyance than compassion ; these adverse judgements were reversed once Fronto was read for what he was rather than what he was not, as already in the sympathetic treatment by Dorothy Brock, Studies in Fronto and his Age ( Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1911 ).

North American Gardnerians of the Long Island line allow covens to add rituals and teachings to the book, but nothing may be removed.

Scroggins has said that the contents of the book are profane and violate the teachings of the Bible.

Not all of the books that ended up in the New Testament contain information about the historical Jesus nor teachings from the historical Jesus, as evidenced by the Epistles and the book of Revelation.

Paramahansa Yogananda ( January 5, 1893March 7, 1952 ), born Mukunda Lal Ghosh, was an Indian yogi and guru who introduced many westerners to the teachings of meditation and Kriya Yoga through his book, Autobiography of a Yogi.

** The Catholic Catechism ( Hardon ), a book by John Hardon on the teachings of the Catholic Church

Armstrong summarized his teachings in his book Mystery of the Ages, published shortly before his death.

Among modern the modern critics of Kabbalah was Yihhyah Qafahh, who wrote a book entitled Milhamoth ha-Shem, ( Wars of the Name ) against what he perceived as the false teachings of the Zohar and the false Kabbalah of Isaac Luria.

The book also looks at the teachings of Martin Luther, early Christianity, Christian fundamentalism and sectarianism, and the Bible.

The Lamanite nation was the original nation to disobey the teachings of the prophets in the Book of Mormon, and the Nephites were the original people to follow said teachings, though the Nephites rebel and repent throughout the book.

He wrote a series of essays collected into the book Zen For Americans.

He was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and clinical depression as a result of an evaluation conducted by psychoanalysts, and was treated with ECT on numerous occasions, which he himself talks about in his autobiographical book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

Pirsig ’ s work in his book Zen and the art of Motorcycle Maintenance analyzes the Rhetoric and Dialectic forms of Philosophies and their implications in the context of modern science and lifestyle.

* Zen And Now-Mark Richardson's book contains more Pirsig biographical detail.

Highway 175 was mentioned as the next to last highway ridden in the classic book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert Pirsig.

* Stillwater, a philosophical panda in the book Zen Shorts

In this capacity, Merton was influenced by the book Zen Catholicism.

This popular view is likely the result of a single book Zen in the Art of Archery ( 1948 ) by the German author Eugen Herrigel.

In his book Three Pillars of Zen, Philip Kapleau says that practitioners in the Rinzai school face in, towards each other with their backs to the wall, and in the Soto school, practitioners face the wall or a curtain.

His book Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind has become a classic in western Zen culture.

The title is an apparent play on the title of the book Zen in the Art of Archery by Eugen Herrigel.

With this, the book details two types of personalities: those who are interested mostly in gestalts ( romantic viewpoints, such as Zen, focused on being " In the moment ", and not on rational analysis ), and those who seek to know the details, understand the inner workings, and master the mechanics ( classic viewpoints with application of rational analysis, vis-a-vis motorcycle maintenance ) and so on.

In contrast to this opinion, some of the Zen masters in Loori's book The Art of Just Sitting deride Yasutani's description, giving their own version as the right or correct way to do shikantaza.

* The book Three Pillars of Zen by Philip Kapleau ( ISBN 0-385-26093-8 ) contains several first-person accounts of Rinzai sesshin experiences.

Another key legend regards Dogen Zenji ( 道元禅師 ; 1200 – 1253 ), who brought the Soto Zen sect to Japan: After an extended visit to China for the purpose of studying Zen, on the night before his planned return to Japan, Dogen saw the Bìyán Lù for the first time, and stayed up all night making a handwritten copy of the book.

Michael Abrash is a game programmer and technical writer specializing in optimization and 80x86 assembly language programming, a reputation cemented by his 1990 book Zen of Assembly Language Volume 1: Knowledge.

Related issues were covered in his later book Zen of Graphics Programming.

His second book, Zen of Assembly Language ( 1990 ), focused on writing efficient assembly code for the 16-bit 8086 processor, but was released after the 80486 CPU was already available.

The key point of Zen of Assembly Language was that performance must always be measured, and the book included a measurement tool called the Zen Timer to check if theoretical code optimizations actually worked.

Although already in the book The Zen of Running from 1974 it was recommended to run barefoot and " as undressed as possible " to get " well bathed by sun and air " nude running has never gained wide acceptance.