Taking these words quite literally, Anthony gave away some of the family estate to his neighbors, sold the remaining property, donated the funds thus raised to the poor, placed his sister with a group of Christian virgins, a sort of proto-monastery of nuns, and himself became the disciple of a local hermit.

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 ".

Irenaeus also writes that " The Elders witness to this, who in Asia conferred with John the Lord's disciple, to the effect that John had delivered these things unto them: for he abode with them until the times of Trajan.

In the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, it is claimed that the historical Shakyamuni Buddha taught tantra, but that since these are ' secret ' teachings, confined to the guru / disciple relationship, they were generally written down long after the Buddha's other teachings, the Pali Canon and the Mahayana sutras.

He had received his training partly in Alexandria, under Ammonius, partly in Athens, as a disciple of Damascius ; and it was probably in one of these two cities that he subsequently took up his abode ; for, with the exception of these cities and Constantinople, it would have been difficult to find a town which possessed the collections of books he needed, and he is unlikely to have gone to Constantinople.

Kitāb al-Tajalliyāt was one of these first books to record such a certificate ( sima ‘) in the presence of his disciple Ibn Sawdakīn.

Saint John Capistran was his friend, and Saint James of the Marches was his disciple during these years.

According to Venerable Hsuan Hua from the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, there are five types of beings who may speak the sutras of Buddhism: a buddha, a disciple of a buddha, a deva, a ṛṣi, or an emanation of one of these beings ; however, they must first receive certification from a buddha that its contents are true Dharma.

While it has long been claimed that he studied in Venice with Adrian Willaert, and that he was a singer at San Marco, no specific documentation of either of these events has been found ; some dedicatory material in his Venetian publications mentions him as a " disciple " or " follower ", but not specifically as a student.

But these occasional visits did not and could not make Him a pupil or disciple of Sayyid Kazim.

Among these we are told that Euphraeus, a disciple of Plato, rose to so high a place in his favour, as completely to govern the young king, and exclude from his society all but philosophers and geometers.

According to Venerable Hsuan Hua from the tradition of Chinese Buddhism, there are five types of beings who may speak the sutras of Buddhism: a buddha, a disciple of a buddha, a deva, a ṛṣi, or an emanation of one of these beings ; however, they must first receive certification from a buddha that its contents are true Dharma.

But, Irenaeus noted, Anicetus could not persuade Polycarp to forgo the observance inasmuch as these things had been always observed by John the disciple of the Lord, and by other apostles with whom he had been conversant ; nor did Polycarp persuade Anicetus to keep it: Anicetus said that he must hold to the way of the elders before him. Neither Polycarp nor Anicetus was able to persuade the other to his position, but neither did they consider the matter of sufficient importance to justify a schism.

During one of these performances in Guangdong, he was noticed by Luk Ah-choi, a practitioner of Hung Ga style who is known as the first and best disciple of Jee Sin Sim See and as a classmate of Hung Hei-gun, for whom Hung Gar is named.

Also, according to the legends of these institutions, “ the lineage of blind biwa layers ultimately is traced to … a blind disciple of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, called Ganjutsu Sonja ”.

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.

The opening words of the Secret Book of John are " The teaching of the saviour, and the revelation of the mysteries and the things hidden in silence, even these things which he taught John, his disciple.

Oxyrhynchus 654 had a heading which seems to describe the work as a collection of " sayings " addressed to Thomas and some other disciple, and when the Nag Hammadi Gospel of Thomas was discovered in 1945, it was identified as a Coptic version of the Greek work of which these two were fragments.

Within the Roman Empire, these private individuals and groups which collected taxes in lieu of the bid ( i. e. rent ) they had paid to the state were known as publicani, of whom the best known is the disciple Matthew, a publicanus in the village of Capernaum in the province of Galilee.

I thank you heartily for the pamphlet, and for the authorities you give me for the doctrines I have sworn by, long and long since: I know not how long, they have been my creed: I believe, before even my happiness in your acquaintance and friendship, tho ' they have certainly been strengthen'd and confirm'd by your conversation and instruction — in support of these principles I trust I shall ever act, and I shall continue to attempt their general propagation ;— whether by the best means, is matter of speculation: but by the best, according to my judgement — nothing can make me a disciple of Paine or Priestley, nor any thing induce me to proclaim, that I am not so, but in the mode I myself think the best to resist their mischief — private conversation and private insinuation may best suit the extent of my abilities, the turn of my temper, and the nature of my character ...

Each of these " manji's " was placed under the charge of a pious Sikh ( both male and female ) who, besides preaching Guru Nanak ’ s word, looked after the sangats within his / her jurisdiction and transmitted the disciple ’ s offerings to the Guru.

When the disciple has passed these tests, he is introduced to the awrad, a series of prayers particular to that order.

Indra Devi ( ( Indra Devi ); May 12, 1899-April 25, 2002 ) was an early disciple of Sri Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, and herself became a renowned yoga teacher.

She became the seventeenth disciple or " Letter of the Living " of the Báb, and rapidly become known as one of his most renowned followers.

In 1869, MacKaye traveled to Paris with his family, where he became the disciple of the renowned French acting teacher François Delsarte.

The city and district of Gorakhpur are named after a renowned ascetic saint, Gorakshanath, the chief disciple of the yogi Matsyendranath.

* Saint Benedict of Szkalka, a hermit on Mount Zobor in Hungary, disciple of St. Andrew Zorard, renowned for his asceticism, murdered by robbers ( 1012 )

Ramesh S. Balsekar ( May 25, 1917 – September 27, 2009 ) was a disciple of the late Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj, a renowned Advaita master.

Samuel, another disciple of Judah I, at the same time brought to the academy at Nehardea a high degree of prosperity ; in fact, it was at the school of Rav that Jewish learning in Babylonia found its permanent home and center.

The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 gives David Gans, a disciple of the Maharal, as a source for the story, citing his historical work Zemach David, published in 1592.

See also Acts 2: 10 where Jews from Cyrene heard the disciples speaking in their own language in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost ; 6: 9 where some Cyrenian Jews disputed with a disciple named Stephen ; 11: 20 tells of Jewish Christians originally from Cyrene who ( along with believers from Cyprus ) first preached the Gospel to non-Jews ; 13: 1 names Lucius of Cyrene as one of several to whom the Holy Spirit spoke, instructing them to appoint Barnabas and Saul ( later Paul ) for missionary service.

Among his teachers in Talmud were Judah ben Yakkar and Meïr ben Nathan of Trinquetaille, and he is said to have been instructed in Kabbalah ( Jewish mysticism ) by his countryman Azriel of Gerona, who was in turn a disciple of Isaac the Blind.

The latter's portrayal, accomplished through statements made by the eponymous character, is polemical: Grielescu, who is identified as a disciple of Nae Ionescu, took part in the Bucharest Pogrom, and is in Chicago as a refugee scholar, searching for the friendship of a Jewish colleague as a means to rehabilitate himself.

During his years in Berlin, Soloveitchik became a close disciple of Rabbi Hayyim Heller, who had established an institute for advanced Jewish Studies from an Orthodox perspective in the city.

He was acclaimed in all circles for his extensive knowledge, thus Moses Mendelssohn, founder of the Jewish Enlightenment movement, wrote to him as " your disciple, who thirsts for your words.

Other religious Zionist institutions are Yeshivat Or Etzion ( founded by Rav Haim Druckman, a foremost disciple of Rabbi Tzvi Yehuda Kook ), Yeshivat HaKotel, Yeshivat Birkat Moshe in Maale Adumim, Yeshivat Har Hamor, Ein HaNatziv Women's Seminary and the Yaacov Herzog Institute for Jewish Studies.

Beginning with a testing trap laid out by his adversaries regarding observance of the Jewish Sabbath, Jesus uses the opportunity to lay out the problems with the religiosity of his adversaries against his own teaching by giving a litany of shocking comparisons between various, apparent socio-political and socio-economic realities versus the meaning of being his disciple.

The Dresden performances of Le prophète ( in German ) in 1850 were the occasion for a series of articles by Wagner's disciple, Theodor Uhlig, condemning Meyerbeer's style and crudely attributing his alleged aesthetic failure to his Jewish origins, inspiring Wagner to write his anti-Jewish diatribe Das Judenthum in der Musik (" Jewishness in Music ").

Which some held relate to the " hurt to living " ( tzaar baalei chaim ) statute cited throughout Jewish law, against hurting any living thing, the Mishnah Avoth 1: 12 " Be a disciple of Aaron ... and love all of God's animals " ( chaim, living ), also " His compassion is over all of His creatures " ( Psalm 145: 9 ) again the term is " chaim " living things.

Gordin's Ben Abuyah is clearly a surrogate for Gordin himself, and to some extent for Adler: an unbeliever, but one who thinks of himself, unalterably, as a Jew, and who rejects Christianity even more firmly than Judaism, a man who behaves ethically and who dies haunted by a vision of " terrible Jewish suffering ", condemned by the rabbis generally, but lauded as a great Jew by his disciple Rabbi Meir.

* ( 1974 ; David Gans, 1541-1613: disciple of Maharal, assistant of Tycho Brahe and of Johannes Kepler ) ISBN 2-252-01723-6 ; English translation as Jewish thought and the scientific revolution of the sixteenth century: David Gans ( 1541-1613 ) and his times ( 1986 ) OUP.

According to the Talmud and Midrash, this day marks the hillula ( celebration, interpreted by some as anniversary of death ) of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a Mishnaic sage and leading disciple of Rabbi Akiva in the 2nd century, and the day on which he revealed the deepest secrets of kabbalah in the form of the Zohar, a landmark text of Jewish mysticism.