According to von Brück, after examining Dorje Shugden based on three methodological devices — historical evidence, political reason, and spiritual insight — the Dalai Lama changed his view and now considers Dorje Shugden to be a worldly spirit.

According to Mumford, Dorje Shugden is " extremely popular, but held in awe and feared among Tibetans because he is highly punitive.

According to Sara Chamberlain in the New Internationalist, in 1996 the Dalai Lama announced that worship of Dorje Shugden was banned and explained that the Tibetan state oracle, Nechung, had advised him that the deity was a threat to his personal safety and the future of Tibet.

According to the official website of the TGIE, he lauded the bold initiative of Tibetan monastic communities in their resolve to end the Dolgyal ( Shugden ) worship, following the long life offering to the Dalai Lama held at Drepung monastery in south India in February.

According to Trijang Rinpoche, the Eleventh Dalai Lama " enthroned Gyalchen Dorje Shugden as the principal protector of the Yellow Hat teachings.

According to PK Dey, a human-rights lawyer from Delhi, Dorje Shugden worshippers are suffering harassment from the Dalai Lama's followers and his government, citing door-to-door searches and wanted posters as examples.

According to the website of the Central Tibetan Administration, Justice Muralidhar's decision had the effect of " Closing the doors on the possibility of similar complaints in the future ," omitting the fact that " It is however clarified that the dismissal of this petition will not preclude any individual member or members of the Dorje Shugden Society to seek appropriate remedies as may be available to them in law " before the police in Karnataka and its state government.

According to Trijang Rinpoche, these two seemingly contradictory views — Dorje Shugden as either ( 1 ) an enlightened protector, or ( 2 ) a worldly protector — are easily reconciled by the belief that Dorje Shugden " can appear in any mundane or supra-mundane form whatsoever depending upon whether our mind is pure or impure.

According to some alive at the time, Dorje Shugden also protected the 14th Dalai Lama in his escape from Tibet to India.

According to some adherents, it is correct to consider Dorje Shugden as an emanation of Manjushri but not one who shows the aspect of a worldly being.

According to adherents, Dorje Shugden is the incarnation of the five Buddha families and appears in five forms that symbolize the five families, called ' the five lineages of Dorje Shugden '.

According to Sachen Kunlo, a Sakya Lama, each of the thirty-two Deities of Dorje Shugden's mandala has a specific enlightened function: Duldzin Dorje Shugden leads followers to correct spiritual paths by bestowing wisdom ; Vairochana Shugden helps pacify negative karma and obstacles ; Ratna Shugden increases good fortune ; Pema Shugden helps control the mind ; and Karma Shugden overcomes the four maras and evil spirits.

According to his adherents, Dorje Shugden is the current incarnation in a lineage of enlightened Masters.

According to Mumford, the 5th Dalai Lama unsuccessfully tried to subjugate Dorje Shugden through a fire exorcism and " invited the still-wandering spirit to become a Srungma of the Gelugpa order, with result that Shugs-ldan became one of the most popular Srungmas in Tibet.

According to Tagpo Kelsang Khedrub, although the Fifth Dalai Lama and others tried to destroy Dorje Shugden, they were not able to because Shugden is enlightened:

According to some Gelug Lamas, there is evidence to show that the 5th Dalai Lama realized he was mistaken in considering Dorje Shugden a spirit, and then composed a prayer praising Dorje Shugden as a Buddha and crafted a statue to show his respect for Dorje Shugden.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica estimates ( as of 2005 ), adherents of Chinese folk religion account for some 6. 3 % of world population, and adherents of tribal religions (" ethnoreligionists ") for another 4. 0 %.

According to Wallis, “ sects lay a claim to possess unique and privileged access to the truth or salvation and “ their committed adherents typically regard all those outside the confines of the collectivity as ' in error '”.

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According to Falun Gong websites, the number of Falun Gong adherents tortured to death rose from 245 in 2000 to 419 in 2001.

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According to United Church statistics for 2008, there are about 525, 000 members and 2. 8 million adherents.

According to Kalupahana, this classification of eight consciousnesses is based on a misunderstanding of Vasubandhu's Triṃśikaikā-kārikā by later adherents.

According to Kalupahana, this classification of eight consciousnesses is based on a misunderstanding of Vasubandhu's Triṃśikaikā-kārikā by later adherents.

According to Operation World, there are between 7, 000 and 15, 000 members and adherents of the various Protestant, Evangelical and other minority churches in Iran, though these numbers are particularly difficult to verify under the current political circumstances.

According to most adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, the Book of Mormon is a 19th century translation of a record of ancient inhabitants of the American continent, which was written in a script which the book refers to as " reformed Egyptian.

According to the church official, the patriarch's initiative spurred a national baby boom, because being baptized by the Patriarch is a considerable honor among adherents of the Georgian Orthodox Church.

According to www. adherents. com, the Pentecostal population is growing quickly with even faster rates in the third world countries.

According to adherents, sickness is an attempt by Satan to rob believers of their divine right to total health.

The movement now focuses entirely on " Knowledge ", which is a set of simple instructions on how adherents should live .</ small ></ ref > According to Ron Geaves, Rawat speaks spontaneously, with an emphasis on an individual's subjective experience rather than on a body of theoretical knowledge, and he draws upon real life experiences, including his own, rather than on interpretations of the scriptures.

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According to him and his adherents, the Revolution in Russia was doomed unless it was to become worldwide.

According to it, adherents of these groups are encouraged to relocate to a five-state region of the Northwestern United States — viz., Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming.

According to William H. Tucker he " used this opportunity to fill the WACL with European Nazis-ex-officials of the Third Reich and Nazi collaborators from other countries during the war as well as new adherents to the cause — in what one journalist called " one of the greatest fascist blocs in postwar Europe.

* According to a report in The New York Times, March 10 and 11, 1929, Isidore Fink, of 4 East 132nd Street, New York City, was in his Fifth Avenue Laundry on the night of March 9, 1929 with the windows closed and door of the room bolted.

According to the order of succession established by the Constitution of the Fifth Republic, the president of the senate assumes the nation's presidential powers and duties following the president's death or resignation, and becomes interim Head of State until the next election.

* According to The Discworld Companion, it lasted exactly as long as it took for Sam Vimes to find out about it ( though in The Fifth Elephant it lasted only until Carrot Ironfoundersson found out about it, rather before Vimes did.

According to the local legend known as the Wapenvermeerdering, or " Legend of the Haarlem shield ", the two upper bells in the tower were taken from Damiette ( Damiate in Dutch ) during the Fifth Crusade by Haarlem knights and were placed in the tower.

According to the Ascended Master Teachings, a " Master " ( or " Spiritual Master ") is a human being who has taken the Fifth Initiation and is thereby capable of dwelling on the 5th dimension.

According to Alice Bailey and Benjamin Creme there are sixty Masters of the Ancient Wisdom, defined as beings who have reached the Fifth Level of Initiation or above, with Djwhal Khul in a pivotal role as the master who telepathically dictated the many esoteric teachings in Baileys ' books.

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According to Robert W. Simpson, from the second edition of his book on Nielsen, this work may be partially autobiographical ; the composer had just experienced a tremendous success with his Fifth symphony, but had also suffered a series of heart attacks.

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According to the " Comisiones Nacionales para la Celebración del Quinto Centenario " ( National Commission for the Celebration of the Fifth Centennial ), she is said to be one of three artists whose contributions have helped unite Latin America.

According to Bob Colacello, Darling adopted this name sometime in 1963 / 1964 after she started going to gay bars in Manhattan and making visits to a doctor on Fifth Avenue for hormone injections.

According to one version, the creation of Fountain began when, accompanied by artist Joseph Stella and art collector Walter Arensberg, he purchased a standard Bedfordshire model urinal from the J. L. Mott Iron Works, 118 Fifth Avenue.

According to the February 2010 Avatar issue of Sci Fi Magazine, he was slated to direct the movie Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage with Patrick Stewart.

According to the oral history of the Mississippi Chippewa, they were primarily of the southern branch of Ojibwe who spread from the " Fifth Stopping Place " of Baawiting ( Sault Ste.

According to The Preppy Handbook, the former store, on 44th Street between Fifth and Madison Avenues, was chosen because it was equidistant from the Harvard and Yale clubs.

According to the 2003 Caltrans District 7 Master System Plan Status Map, the segment of California Route 34 on Fifth Street and Pleasant Valley Road will be relocated to a north – south alignment beginning near Calleguas Creek opposite the Naval Air Weapons Station, Point Mugu on California Route 1 and ending near the intersection of Lewis and Pleasant Valley roads.