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

According to historian Juan Cole it was under Sunni rule that Twelver Shiaism became established in Bahrain, as Shia Bahrainis gradually moved away from the radical, egalitarian Ismaili Qarmatian sect to the more quietist Twelver or Imami branch, a process which the Sunni rulers encouraged.

According to tradition, he founded the Nyingmapa sect — also known as the " old sect " or Red Hat sect — of Mahayana Buddhism, which became for a time the dominant religion of Bhutan.

According to Eusebius, this turned what appeared to be a committed Christian into a man who feigned sympathy for the sect but who eventually exposed his true bloodthirsty pagan nature, only to be stopped by the virtuous Constantine.

According to some writers, Sitchin's ideas along with those of Erich von Däniken may have influenced the beliefs of the religious sect of Raëlism, and writer Mark Pilkington sees the mythology of Japan's Pana Wave religious group as rooted in Sitchins The 12th Planet and its sequels.

According to Slavonic documents, the founder of this sect was a certain priest Bogumil, who " imbibed the Manichaean teaching and flourished at the time of the Bulgarian emperor Peter " ( 927-968 ).

According to Abraham Geiger, the Sadducee sect of Judaism drew their name from Tzadok, the first Kohen Gadol to serve in The First Temple with the leaders of the sect proposed as the Kohanim ( priestly ) sons of Tzadok.

According to Hutcheson, man has a variety of senses, internal as well as external, reflex as well as direct, the general definition of a sense being " any determination of our minds to receive ideas independently on our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain " ( Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, sect.

According to Clement, Carpocrates was from Alexandria although his sect was primarily located in Cephallenia.

According to The Nations founding prospectus of 1865, " The Nation will not be the organ of any party, sect, or body.

According to Epiphanius, and Josephus, Mount Carmel had been the stronghold of the Essenes that came from a place in Galilee named Nazareth ; though this Essene group are sometimes consequently referred to as Nazareans, they are not to be confused with the " Nazarene " sect, which followed the teachings of Jesus, but associated with the Pharisees.

According to this sect, their beliefs were based upon the impossibility of the death of the Imam without an apparent known issue ( this sect did not believe in the imamate or even existence of Muhammad al-Mahdi ), since the earth can never be without an imam according to their doctrine.

According to several books, he was assassinated by a member of Hashshashin, a group of the Ismaili sect of Shi ' a Islam.

According to Jan Nattier, Mahāyāna never referred to a separate sect of Buddhism ( Skt.

According to his account, the founder of the Bahuśrutīya sect was named Yājñavalkya.

According to the Sammatīya sect, the Vibhajyavādins developed from the Sarvāstivāda school.

According to one scholar, the evidence afforded by the Gandharan Buddhist texts " suggest that the Dharmaguptaka sect achieved early success under their Indo-Scythian supporters in Gandhāra, but that the sect subsequently declined with the rise of the Kusāna Empire ( ca.

According to Joseph Walser, there is evidence that the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( 25, 000 lines ) and the Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( 100, 000 lines ) have a connection with the Dharmaguptaka sect, while the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( 8000 lines ) does not.

According to the sect, over five million students have taken refuge under Lu.

According to the researchers, the results suggest that altruistic behavior may originate from how people view the world rather than how they act in it.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

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 various ideas of the afterlife, the essential aspect of the individual that lives on after death may be some partial element, or the entire soul, of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity.

According to Stewart, there was evidence that gambling interests may have influenced Johnson's impeachment trial.

According to Thucydides, Pericles may have declared in a funeral oration:

According to the rules of the Nobel committee a maximum of three people may share the prize.

According to Time magazine, one of the witnesses, Angela Wright, may not have been considered credible on the issue of sexual harassment because she had been fired from the EEOC by Thomas.

According to this view, the poem says that there may, or may not, have been a divine visit, when there was briefly heaven in England.

According to the definition above, two relations with the same graph may be different, if they differ in the sets and.

According to John J. Collins in his 1993 commentary, Daniel, Hermeneia Commentary, the Aramaic in Daniel is of a later form than that used in the Samaria correspondence, but slightly earlier than the form used in the Dead Sea Scrolls, meaning that the Aramaic chapters 2-6 may have been written earlier in the Hellenistic period than the rest of the book, with the vision in chapter 7 being the only Aramaic portion dating to the time of Antiochus.

According to Tacitus in his Annals, Boudica poisoned herself, though in the Agricola which was written almost twenty years prior he mentions nothing of suicide and attributes the end of the revolt to socordia (" indolence "); Dio says she fell sick and died and then was given a lavish burial ; though this may be a convenient way to remove her from the story.

According to the US Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, indirect comparison indicates that side-effects from benzodiazepines may be about twice as frequent as from nonbenzodiazepines.

According to moral values, human behavior may also depend upon the common, usual, unusual, acceptable or unacceptable behavior of others.

() According to the book of Leviticus, blood from sacrificed animals may only be placed on the altar of the Great Temple in Jerusalem ( which no longer existed at the time of the Christian blood libels ).

According to Scott Gordon, a political organization is constitutional to the extent that it " contain institutionalized mechanisms of power control for the protection of the interests and liberties of the citizenry, including those that may be in the minority.

According to Emile Benveniste ( 1954 ), the earliest written occurrence in English of civilisation in its modern sense may be found in Adam Ferguson's An Essay on the History of Civil Society ( Edinburgh, 1767 – p. 2 ): " Not only the individual advances from infancy to manhood, but the species itself from rudeness to civilisation.

According to some scholars, Howard's conception of Conan and the Hyborian Age may have originated in Thomas Bulfinch's The Outline of Mythology ( 1913 ) which inspired Howard to " coalesce into a coherent whole his literary aspirations and the strong physical, autobiographical elements underlying the creation of Conan.

According to historian of Communism Archie Brown, the memory of the Cultural Revolution, where a form of mass political mobilization turned against the Party and resulted in chaotic destruction, may account for the reticence of educated Chinese to press for an end to one-party rule.

According to Every, one example may be " the myth of St. George " and other stories about saints battling dragons, which were " modelled no doubt in many cases on older representations of the creator and preserver of the world in combat with chaos ".

According to Dan Krutz, former president of CUIC, " Overcoming racism has been a focal point of CUIC since its beginning ... Racism may be the biggest sin that divides churches.

According to a study at the University of Texas, ClearType " may not be universally beneficial ".

According to Richard Dawkins in his book The Ancestor's Tale, chimps and bonobos may be descended from Australopithecus.

According to Nielsen ( 2008 ) a dictionary may be regarded as a lexicographical product that is characterised by three significant features: ( 1 ) it has been prepared for one or more functions ; ( 2 ) it contains data that have been selected for the purpose of fulfilling those functions ; and ( 3 ) its lexicographic structures link and establish relationships between the data so that they can meet the needs of users and fulfill the functions of the dictionary.