Bhutanese painted thangka of Tertön Padmasambhava, late 19th century, Do Khachu Gonpa, Mebisa, Bhutan According to generally accepted history, the rediscovering of terma began with the first tertön, Sangye Lama ( 1000 – 1080 ).

According to archaeologists Patricia Crown and Steadman Upham, the appearance of the bright colors on Salada Polychromes in the 14th century may reflect religious or political alliances on a regional level.

According to federal guidelines, only approved religious symbols — of which there are 38 — can be placed on government headstones or memorial plaques.

According to most Muslim scholars, the Ark of the Covenant has a religious basis in Islam, and Islam gives it special significance.

According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

According to classical rabbinical sources, Benjamin was only born after Rachel had fasted for a long time, as a religious devotion with the hope of a new child as a reward.

According to social mores and the prevailing law, marriages, entrance into religious life and migration from one ’ s place of birth to another land required official permission from upper strata ( the lord and the council commissioner ).

According to the IHA, the tombs are more than a mere repository for historical artifacts ; they are sacred religious sites.

According to Kahoe and Dunn, people who are most firm in their faith and attend religious services weekly are the least afraid of dying.

According to some Jewish religious traditions, Hebrew was the language of the creation.

According to the Hebrew Testament, Hezekiah introduced religious reform and reinstated religious traditions.

According to religious Judaism, any non-Jew who lives according to the Seven Laws of Noah is regarded as a righteous gentile, and is assured of a place in the world to come, the final reward of the righteous.

According to the authoritative Dictionary of Islam jihad is defined as: " A religious war with those who are unbelievers in the mission of Muhammad ... enjoined especially for the purpose of advancing Islam and repelling evil from Muslims.

According to the census of 1998, the religious breakdown of the city was as follows: Muslim ( 96. 45 %); Christian ( 2. 42 %); Hindu ( 0. 86 %); Ahmadiyya ( 0. 17 %); Others ( 0. 10 %) ( Parsis, Sikhs, Bahá ' ís, Jews and Buddhists ).

According to Scorsese, the first draft of Mean Streets focused on Charlie's religious conflict and its effect on his worldview.

According to Weber, Confucianism and Puritanism are mutually exclusive types of rational thought, each attempting to prescribe a way of life based on religious dogma.

According to the historic view of the Jewish faith, allegorically the Oral Law ( Torah she-be ' al-peh ) was also given to Moses at Sinai, and is the exposition of the Written Law as relayed by the scholarly and other religious leaders of each generation.

According to the Cologne Mani-Codex, Mani's parents were members of the religious sect of Elcesaites.

According to religious Judaism, any non-Jew who adheres to these laws is regarded as a < i > righteous gentile </ i >, and is assured of a place in the World to Come ( Olam Haba ), the final reward of the righteous.

According to religious Judaism, the 613 mitzvot or " commandments " given in the written Torah, as well as their reasonings in the oral Torah, were issued to the Jews only, and are therefore binding only upon them, having inherited the obligation from their ancestors.

According to Phillips, the question of whether or not God exists cannot be " objectively " answered by philosophy because the categories of truth and falsity, which are necessary for asking the question, have no application in the religious contexts wherein religious belief has its sense and meaning.

According to him, the term embraced all black music except classical music and religious music, unless a gospel song sold enough to break into the charts.

According to Kosmin, " the hard secularist considers religious propositions to be epistemologically illegitimate, warranted by neither reason nor experience.

According to one poll, about 24 % of the United States population identifies itself as spiritual but not religious.

According to Dumezil it falls into a particular subset of celestial gods, referred to in histories of religion as frame gods.

According to this interpretation, the purpose of a quantum-mechanical theory is to predict the relative probabilities of various alternative histories ( for example, of a particle ).

According to early histories, the offer of Andrew Holmes ' log house as capitol for seven years, a number of town lots, £ 50 worth of locks and hinges, 10 boxes of glass, 1, 500 pounds of nails, and $ 3, 000 in gold helped the decision go to Frankfort.

According to Newport histories, Justis saw the area's potential as a commercial crossroads and a port.

According to town histories, as late as the 1920s, there was some dispute about how to spell the name, with the post office and one of its most prominent hotels using a " u " for many decades.

According to Ibn-Khaldun's comprehensive history of the Malian kings, Mansa Musa's grandfather was Abu-Bakr ( the Arabic equivalent to Bakari or Bogari, original name unknown-not the sahabiyy Abu Bakr ), a brother of Sundiata Keita, the founder of the Malian Empire as recorded through oral histories.

According to historian Susan Vandiver Nicassio, Angelotti was partly based on Liborio Angelucci who had briefly been a Consul of the Roman Republic, although the resemblance in terms of their life histories ends there.

According to early Roman histories, when the Sabine ruler Titus Tatius attacked Rome after the Rape of the Sabines ( 8th century BC ), the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill, betrayed the Romans by opening the city gates for the Sabines in return for ' what they bore on their arms.

Under international law, according to Protocol 1 Additions to the Geneva Conventions of 1949, Gurkhas serving as regular uniformed soldiers are not mercenaries, According to Cabinet Office official histories ( Official History of the Falkland Islands, Sir Lawrence Freedman ), Sir John Nott, as Secretary of State for Defence, expressed the British Government's concern that the Gurkhas could not be sent with the task force to recapture the Falkland Islands because it might upset the non-aligned members of the fragile coalition of support that the British had built in the United Nations.

According to data by M. Fortin, based on the analysis of 980 case histories, taken from daily practice of a family doctor, the spread of comorbidity is from 69 % in young patients, up to 93 % among middle aged people and up to 98 % patients of older age groups.

According to Steven Carl Tracy, Bradford's works were influential in broadly popularizing the John Henry legend beyond railroad and mining communities and outside of African American oral histories.

According to old histories written for school assignments, White and Dakin built a two-room log cabin with an attic loft.

According to the oral histories of the Anishinaabe, after departing the " Second Stopping Place " near Niagara Falls, the core Anishinaabe peoples migrated along the shores of Lake Erie to what is now southern Michigan.

According to official histories from the Qing era, Nurhaci, a military leader of the Jurchen tribes in northeast China and founder of what became the Chinese imperial Qing Dynasty, renamed his tribe after Mañjuśrī.

According to their theory, it is inevitable that we find our Universe's " fine-tuned " physical constants, as the current Universe " selects " only those past histories that led to the present conditions.

According to Kirtland monthly histories, during that period, as new types of aircraft were acquired by the USAF, they were flown to Kirtland to undergo modifications and fly missions related to their incorporation into the special weapons arena.

According to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, a project of the Utility Consumers ' Action Network ( UCAN ): " While some people are not concerned about background investigations, others are uncomfortable with the idea of investigators poking around in their personal histories.

According to local sources and histories, during the Second World War the grottoes located immediately above Valle San Giovanni served as places of refuge for the Italian partisans then battling the German forces.

According to some histories, Macklin claimed at one of these shows to have such a good memory that he could recite any speech after reading through it once.

According to the Tang annals, he finally retreated and apologised, and, later, the emperor granted his request, but the histories written in Tibet all say that the Tibetan army defeated the Chinese and that the Tang emperor delivered a bride under threat of force.

According to traditional histories, the Limbu script was first invented in the late 9th century by King Sirijonga Haang, then fell out of use, to be reintroduced in the 18th century by Te-ongsi Sirijunga Xin Thebe.

According to oral histories, the Mande, in particular the Soninke, contributed to the Islamization of non-Mande Gur groups at the edge of the Sahel in West Africa through trade and settlement.

According to Samuel Johnson's Dictionary, the term was " originally the name of a street ... much inhabited by writers of small histories, dictionaries, and temporary poems, whence any mean production is called grubstreet.

( According to another version of the story, as contained in Song and Yuan Dynasty local histories, the temple was first built by the King of Wuyue in the early Song dynasty.