Upon the death of Chögyam Trungpa, the leadership of Vajradhatu was first carried on by his American disciple, appointed regent and Dharma heir, Ösel Tendzin ( Thomas Rich ), and then by Trungpa's eldest son and Shambhala heir, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

When Khyentse Rinpoche passed away, his close students requested Trulshik Rinpoche, his most senior and accomplished disciple, to find his incarnation.

He was the disciple of Yongtsin Yeshe Gyaltsen, the Kushok Bakula Rinpoche.

Much or all of that section, as well as second and third are based on notes and recollections of Mipham's closest disciple, Shechen Gyaltsab, who in turn was one of the principle teachers of the late Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Coincidentally, the fourth Paltul Rinpoche had studied under and was a close disciple of Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye Rinpoche

Longnü, overwhelmed by the presence of Guanyin, asked to be her disciple so that she might study the dharma.

Magica believes that she is the disciple of the ancient sorceress Circe.

According to court testimony by Ma Ava ( Ava Avalos ), a prominent disciple, Sheela played associates a tape recording of a meeting she had had with Osho about the " need to kill people " in order to strengthen wavering sannyasins resolve in participating in her murderous plots: " She came back to the meeting and [...] began to play the tape.

A ruler could be a patron or a disciple, but he or she was always to be treated as just another devotee.

She gave the premiere performance of both works, but any thoughts he had for a deeper relationship with her came to nothing when she married George Mountford Adie, a disciple of George Gurdjieff, and she later moved with Adie to Australia.

Folklore informs us of a particular incident where she expressed her desire to engage in a discussion about spiritual matters with Rupa Goswami, a direct disciple of Chaitanya and one of the foremost saints of Vrindavan at that time who, being a renunciate celibate, refused to meet a woman.

Together with her brother Dara Shikoh, she was a disciple of Mullah Shah Badakhshi, who initiated her into the Qadiriyya Sufi order in 1641.

As a prominent Bábí ( she was the seventeenth disciple or " Letter of the Living " of the Báb ) she is highly regarded by Bahá ' ís and Azalis, and often mentioned in Bahá ' í literature as an example of courage in the struggle for women's rights.

Since the second century these two statements of Jesus from the cross had been the basis of reasonings that Mary had no other children and " from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home " because after the deaths of Joseph and Jesus there was no one else to look after Mary, and she had to be entrusted to the disciple.

Since the time of the Church Fathers this statement has been used to reason that after the death of Jesus there was no one else in the immediate family to look after Mary, and she had to be entrusted to the disciple given that she had no other children.

Jean Houston, a disciple of Campbell and Mead ( and in the direct lineage of Jung ), was a modern pioneer of engaging thoughtform in what she termed the ' imaginal realm ', and in the associated discipline of aspecting or ' carrying ' deity, dæmon or other somesuch ( Houston, 1996 ).

After That Girl, eager to expand her horizons, Thomas attended the Actors Studio, where she would study with Lee Strasberg until his death in 1982, and subsequently with Strasberg's disciple Sandra Seacat.

Swami Nikhilananda, her direct disciple writes, " Though she had no children of the flesh, she had many of the spirit.

Mostly self-taught as a writer, he was nevertheless subtly influenced by his friend Robert Graves ; and for a while he became a poetic disciple of Laura Riding, but ceased close dealings with her when he was convinced that she was exercising undue influence on his own style.

Mariel Hemingway, granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway, wrote in her book Finding My Balance, that she was introduced to the Autobiography of a Yogi by Dr. Peter Evans, a direct disciple of Yogananda's.

Israeli Police Chief Ben Ner ( Ben Cross ) views Rudy's arrival with hostility and takes steps to have Rudy deported, but police lieutenant Dalia Barr ( Sofia Milos ) risks her career to help Rudy, subsequently revealing that she was once a disciple of the Order, but she left when she was 18.

In February 1963, she became the disciple of her mentor, the Venerable Master Yin Shun, who gave her the dharma name of Cheng Yen and the courtesy name of Huìzhāng ( 慧璋 ).

The Glagolitic alphabet is believed to have been created by Saints Cyril and Methodius, while the Cyrillic alphabet was invented by the Bulgarian scholar Clement of Ohrid, who was their disciple.

Therefore, he is often called the disciple of the Buddha who " heard much ".

His disciple, Cyprian ( Bishop of Carthage 248-58 ) appeals to the same fundamental principle of election to a vacant see in the aftermath of the Decian Persecution when denying the legitimacy of his rigorist rival in Carthage and that of the anti-pope Novatian in Rome ; however, the emphasis is now on legitimating his episcopal ministry as a whole and specifically his exclusive right to administer discipline to the lapsed rather than on the content of what is taught.

Looking at the stream, Valmiki said to his disciple, " Look, how clear is this water, like the mind of a good man!

Yet the title of Father of monasticism is merited as he was the inspiration for the coming of hundreds of men and women into the depths of the desert, who were then loosely organized into small communities, especially by his disciple, Macarius.

A minor source of information is the letter by his disciple Cuthbert which relates Bede's death.

Cuthbert, a disciple of Bede's, wrote a letter to a Cuthwin ( of whom nothing else is known ), describing Bede's last days and his death.

His thinking is often described as Hegelian because of his references to dialectical thinking but, although he probably knew Hegel, Clausewitz's dialectic is quite different and there is little reason to consider him a disciple.

" His disciple Proclus stated ' The One is God '.

The Gospel of Barnabas is a book depicting the life of Jesus, and claiming to be by Jesus ' disciple Barnabas, who in this work is one of the twelve apostles.

The disciple Matthew was probably honoured within the author's circle, as the name Matthew is more prominent in this gospel than any other.

' Along with Peter, the unnamed disciple is especially close to Jesus, and early-church tradition identified him as John the Apostle, one of Jesus ' Twelve Apostles.

For instance, the writing style is different, the author for reasons of humility refers to himself instead as " the disciple whom Jesus loved ," while John in Revelations refers to himself as John at least five times.

Also, the writer of the Fourth Gospel, refers to the Sons of Zebedee ( that is, James and John ), while in a fishing trip after Jesus's death, refers to these two, but also refers to this " other disciple ".

This disciple is never mentioned as even being there in any of the common sections to other gospels, and is never mentioned at all until after Lazarus is raised.

, in which the " beloved disciple " claims authorship, is commonly assumed to be an appendix, probably added to allay concerns after the death of the beloved disciple.

* John never lists all of the Twelve Disciples and names at least one disciple ( Nathanael ) whose name is not found in the synoptics ; Nathanael appears to parallel the apostle Bartholomew found in the synoptics, as both are paired with Philip in the respective gospels.

Some scholars have further speculated that Jesus was himself a disciple of John for some period of time, but this view is disputed.

Clement was a disciple of St. Peter the Apostle, and ordained Bishop of Rome in the year 93AD.

He apprenticed under Dr. Clark Jikai Choffy, an ordained Tendai priest and personal disciple of Jion Haba, the bishop of Tokyo's Reisho-in temple.

That would mean he was ordained priest at Antioch in 383, in his thirty-third year, the ordaining bishop being doubtless Flavian, Diodore's old friend and fellow-laborer, whose " loving disciple " Theodore now became ( John of Antioch, ap.

He was an initiated disciple of Swami Brahmananda and ordained into sannyas in 1924.