According to the Mahayana Sutras, the Buddha does not eat meat.

According to Mahayana sutras, the Buddha always maintained that lay persons were capable of great wisdom in the Buddhadharma and of reaching enlightenment.

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 Vajrayana scriptures Vajrayana refers to one of three vehicles or routes to enlightenment, the other two being the Theravada and Mahayana.

According to this schema, Indian Mahayana revealed two vehicles ( yana ) or methods for attaining enlightenment: the method

* 78 – 101: According to Mahayana tradition, the Fourth Buddhist council takes place under Kushana king Kanishka's reign, near Jalandar, India.

According to some scholars, the " tathagatagarbha "/ Buddha nature discussed in some Mahayana sutras does not represent a substantial self ( atman ); rather, it is a positive language and expression of sunyata ( emptiness ) and represents the potentiality to realize Buddhahood through Buddhist practices.

According to most scholars, the main sutras of Mahayana were written after 100 BCE, when sectarian conflicts arose among Nikaya Buddhist sects regarding the humanity or super-humanity of the Buddha and questions of metaphysical essentialism, on which Greek thought may have had some influence: " It may have been a Greek-influenced and Greek-carried form of Buddhism that passed north and east along the Silk Road ".

According to tradition, Nagarjuna retrieved the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra from the realm of nāgas, though actual reference to Mahayana sutras seems to be scarce in his works.

According to author Jeff Wilson, " Though Tricycle seeks to represent itself as nonsectarian, in practice there is much more Zen and Tibetan material than other forms of Mahayana and Theravada Buddhism ... Tricycle does not represent the whole of Buddhism or even American Buddhism, but it does offer a consistently interesting perspective on issues and ideas that influence many Buddhists in the United States today.

According to his student Kunzang Palden, Mipham had been asked by his teacher Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo to write a survey of all the major Mahayana philosophic shastras for use in the Nyingma monastic colleges.

According to his hagiography, he was swept up against his will in a Roman army recruitment drive at the age of 20, a common occurrence during the turmoils and civil wars of the period, and held in captivity.

According to her hagiography, she was both a princess and a noted scholar, who became a Christian around the age of fourteen, and herself converted hundreds of people to Christianity.

According to the Georgian hagiography, Jewish communities existed in Georgia in the 1st century.

According to some accounts in the hagiography of Nicholas of Myra, debate at the council became so heated that at one point, he slapped Arius in the face.

According to Ar-Rahīq al-Makhtum, a modern Islamic hagiography of Muhammad written by the Indian Muslim author Saif ur-Rahman Mubarakpuri, the reason for war against the Byzantine Empire, was that one of Muhammad's ambassadors was killed by Sharhabeel bin ‘ Amr Al-Ghassani ( the governor of Al-Balqa ).

According to his hagiography, Simeon would not allow any woman to come near his pillar, not even his own mother, reportedly telling her, " If we are worthy, we shall see one another in the life to come.

According to hagiography, before taking his monastic vows Ilya was a warrior famous for his strength.

According to the early medieval Georgian annals and hagiography, Mirian was the first Christian king of Iberia, converted through the ministry of Nino, a Cappadocian female missionary.

According to hagiography, Hellerius or Helier was born to pagan parents in Tongeren ( now in Belgium ) after they had had difficulties conceiving a child.

According to the hagiography, Romard discovered Helier ’ s body on the beach still clutching his head in his hands, placed it in a boat and set off for the mainland.

According to the hagiography of Saint Cyril and Methodius by Clement of Ohrid, Naum took part in the historic mission to Moravia together with Cyril, Methodius, Clement, Angelarius, Gorazd and other Slavic missionaries in 863.

According to her late hagiography, she was an Irish nun of the 5th or 6th century who founded a church in Cornwall.

According to their hagiography, Sergius and Bacchus were officers in Caesar Galerius Maximianus's army, and were held high in his favor until they were exposed as secret Christians.

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According to traditional hagiography, the saint served as a soldier in the Roman Army and was killed on the orders of the emperor Diocletian in 303 for refusing to persecute Christians and confessing to his own Christianity.

According to the hagiography The Life of St. Grellan, Grellan lived during the 5th century time of Saint Patrick.

According to his hagiography he wanted to visit the friend of his youth, St. Vigilius, Bishop of Trento, ( who died in 405 ), but his horse was torn to pieces by a wild bear.

According to the Tathagatagarbha sutras, failure to recognize the Buddha's eternity and, even worse, outright denial of that eternity, is deemed a major obstacle to the attainment of complete awakening ( Bodhi ).

According to some scholars, the Buddha nature which these sutras discuss, does not represent a substantial self ( ātman ).

According to three particular sutras Amitabha vowed to ensure that anyone who chanted his name would be reborn in his Pure Land of Sukhavati ( Sanskrit, lit.

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.

According to tradition, Anapanasati was originally taught by the Buddha in several sutras including the Ānāpānasati Sutta.

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.

According to author Dilip M. Salwi, " if Kanada ’ s sutras are analysed, one would find that his atomic theory was far more advanced than those forwarded later by the Greek philosophers, Leucippus and Democritus.

According to the Tathagatagarbha sutras, the Buddha taught the existence of this spiritual essence called the tathagatagarbha or Buddha-nature, which is present in all beings and phenomena.

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 that view, preeclampsia is caused by a failure of the mother to accept the fetus and placenta, which both contain " foreign " proteins from the father's genes.

According to, the Śulba Sūtras contain " the earliest extant verbal expression of the Pythagorean Theorem in the world, although it had already been known to the Old Babylonians.

According to Motorola's errata, any chip with a mask set 2E71M or later does not contain the bug.

According to them, prairie dog calls contain specific information as to what the predator is, how big it is and how fast it is approaching.

According to very early traditions that are presumed to contain a good deal of historical truth, the edhilingui were the descendants of the Saxons who led the tribe out of Holstein and during the migrations of the sixth century.

According to a famous 1923 textbook Thermodynamics and the Free Energy of Chemical Substances by the American chemist Gilbert N. Lewis and the American physical chemist Merle Randall, the natural sciences contain three great branches:

According to the 54th Grammy Awards description guide, the award is given to the songwriter ( s ) of a song that " must contain melody and lyrics and must be either a new song or a song first achieving prominence during the eligibility year.

According to the British Nutrition Foundation, trout contain one of the lowest amounts of dioxins ( a type of environmental contaminant ) of all oily fishes.

According to Frankfurt Document No 1, the constitution should specify a central Power of German government, but nevertheless respect the administration of the Länder and it should contain provisions and guarantees of individual freedom and individual rights of the German people in respect to their government.

According to some accounts, the version of the medieval Iranian calendar in which 2, 820 solar years together contain 1, 029, 983 days ( or 683 leap years, for an average year length of 365. 24219858156 days ) was based on the measurements of Khayyám and his colleagues.

According to Philip Cooney: " Norman's songs often contain a series of self-contained vignettes that ( he hoped ) would give the passers-by something to think about, or that might hook them in to hear more of the gospel message.

According to the Fabergé Family tradition, not even the Tsar knew what form they would take: the only stipulation was that each one should contain a surprise.

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According to Lin Carter in Imaginary Worlds: the Art of Fantasy, fantasy worlds, by their nature, contain some element of magic ( paranormal ).

According to the theories of Julius Wellhausen and others who have followed his approach, the Biblical chapters that contain the Jubilee and Sabbatical-year legislation ( chapters 25 and 27 of Leviticus ) were part of the so-called " P " or Priestly Code that represented the last stage in the development of Israel's religion.

According to the American reference work The Joy of Cooking, an Italian soffritto is made with olive oil, especially in Southern Italy, rather than butter, as in France or in Northern Italy, and may also contain garlic, shallot, leek, and herbs.

According to the American Association of Plant Food Control Officials, basic slag must contain at least 12 % total phosphoric acid ( P < sub > 2 </ sub > O < sub > 5 </ sub >) or be labeled " low phosphate ".

According to the author's conception, Jewish scriptures, rightly understood, contain no such injunctions ( chapters 9-10 ).

According to critics the Safe Harbor Principles do not provide for an adequate level of protection, because they contain fewer obligations for the controller and allow the contractual waiver of certain rights.

According to Jean de Maleissye, Mithridates assumed that animals feeding on venomous snakes acquired some detoxifying property in their bodies, and their blood must contain attenuated or transformed components of the snake venom.

According to the Fabergé family tradition, not even the Tsar knew what form they would take: the only requirement was that each one should contain a surprise.

According to Jews, the Hebrew Scriptures contain a small number of prophecies concerning a future descendant of King David, who will be anointed ( Hebrew: moshiach ) as the Jewish people's new leader and will establish the throne of David in Jerusalem forever.

According to American officials this move is designed to contain threats from North Korea, but one that could also be used to counter China's military.

According to a study, fermented soybeans, such as nattō, contain vitamin PQQ, which is important for the skin.