According to his disciple Cuthbert, Bede was also doctus in nostris carminibus (" learned in our songs ").

According to TFI, as a result of Flirty Fishing, " over 100, 000 received God's gift of salvation through Jesus, and some chose to live the life of a disciple and missionary ".

According to the church historian Eusebius, the Quartodeciman Polycarp ( bishop of Smyrna, by tradition a disciple of John the Evangelist ) debated the question with Anicetus ( bishop of Rome ).

According to the general interpretation John was also that " other disciple " who with Peter followed Christ after the arrest into the palace of the high-priest ( John 18: 15 ). Saint John alone remained near his beloved Master at the foot of the Cross on Calvary with the Mother of Jesus and the pious women, and took the desolate Mother into his care as the last legacy of Christ ( John 19: 25-27 ).

According to Harvard theologian Karen King, Mary Magdalene was a prominent disciple and leader of one wing of the early Christian movement that promoted women's leadership.

According to Irenaeus, it was during his pontificate that the aged Polycarp of Smyrna, a disciple of John the Evangelist, visited Rome to discuss the celebration of Passover with Anicetus.

According to the accounts in the Gospels, the Temple Guards, guided by Jesus ' disciple Judas Iscariot, arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane.

According to the narrative of the synoptic Gospels, an anonymous disciple remarks on the greatness of Herod's Temple, a building thought to have been some 10 stories high and likely to have been adorned with gold, silver, and other precious items ( Kilgallen 245 ).

According to some traditions Kundalini techniques are only communicated from master to disciple once the disciple is deemed ready.

" According to an eyewitness-Daya Mata, a direct disciple of Yogananda, who was head of Self-Realization Fellowship from 1955 – 2010, as Yogananda ended his speech, he read from his poem My India, concluding with the words " Where Ganges, woods, Himalayan caves, and men dream God — I am hallowed ; my body touched that sod ".< ref >

According to court testimony by Ma Ava ( Ava Avalos ), a prominent disciple, Sheela played associates a tape recording of a meeting she had had with Osho about the " need to kill people " in order to strengthen wavering sannyasins resolve in participating in her murderous plots: " She came back to the meeting and [...] began to play the tape.

According to Thomas de Waal, a disciple of Ziya Bunyadov, Farida Mammadova, has “ taken the Albanian theory and used it to push Armenians out of the Caucasus altogether.

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 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 Dr. Rubenstein, the account in Sanhedrin 107b recognizes the kinship between Christians and Jews, since Jesus is presented as a disciple of a prominent Rabbi.

According to Dr. Rubenstein, the account in Sanhedrin 107b recognizes the kinship between Christians and Jews, since Jesus is presented as a disciple of a prominent Rabbi.

According to Bhai Man Singh's Pothi Janam Sakhi ( late 18th century ), Guru Nanak visited Ayodhya and said to his Muslim disciple Mardana: ' Mardania!

According to this account, one Scythianos, a Saracen, husband of an Egyptian woman, " introduced the doctrine of Empedocles and Pythagoras into Christianity "; that he had a disciple, " Buddas, formerly named Terebinthus ," who travelled in Persia, where he alleged that he had been born of a virgin, and afterwards wrote four books, one of Mysteries, a second The Gospel, a third The Treasure, and a fourth Heads.

According to Buddhist scriptures, King Bimbisara met the Buddha for the first time prior to the Buddha's enlightenment, and later became an important disciple.

According to Nichiren Shōshū tradition, Taiseki-ji was founded in 1290 by Nichiren ’ s disciple Nikkō on a tract of land called donated by the district steward, Nanjō Tokimitsu ( 1259 – 1332 ).

According to Saradananda a direct disciple of Ramakrishna, Ramakrishna married to show the world an ideal of a sexless marriage.

According to Jain traditions, it was on this day, falling at the beginning of chaturmas, the four month rainy season retreat, Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara, after attaining Kaivalya, made Indrabhuti Gautam, later known as Gautam Swami, a Ganadhara, his first disciple, thus becoming a Guru himself, therefore it is observed in Jainism as Guru Purnima, and is marked special veneration to one's Gurus and teachers.

According to legend, the original copy was passed down to successive generations in the Wang family in secrecy until the monk Zhiyong, dying without an heir, left it to the care of a disciple monk, Biancai.

According to one myth, Chandrakirti ( Nagarjuna's greatest disciple ) rode a stone lion to scare away the Turkish army.

According to its charter, the position of head of state of the Central Tibetan Administration belongs ex officio to the current Dalai Lama, a religious hierarch.

According to Rom Landau, a journalist in the 1930s, as reported to him by Achmed Abdullah: at the beginning of the 20th century, Gurdjieff was a Russian secret agent in Tibet who went by the name of " Hambro Akuan Dorzhieff " ( i. e. Agvan Dorjiev ), chief tutor to the Dalai Lama.

According to the 14th Dalai Lama, this treaty was signed under the reign of the 13th Dalai Lama.

According to the Blue Annals, new king of the Western Tibetan kingdom of Guge by the name of Lha Lama Yeshe Yod, however, was a strict believer in Dharma and so sent his academic followers to learn and translate some of the Sanskrit Buddhist texts.

According to the Danish Karma Kagyu Lama Ole Nydahl, Buddha saw homosexuality as circumstances making life more difficult, but also explained the reason for homosexuality could be aversion against the opposite sex in a former life.

According to Tibetan historian Samten Gyaltsen Karmay, Lobsang Gyatso, the 5th Dalai Lama, wrote in his autobiography:

According to a book by retired CIA officer John Kenneth Knaus, entitled " Orphans Of The Cold War: America And The Tibetan Struggle For Survival ", Gyalo Thondup, the older brother of the 14th ( and current ) Dalai Lama, sent the CIA five Tibetan recruits.

According to Arjia Rinpoche, an important lama who attended the ceremony, Ye Xiaowen, the central government official in charge of the Panchen Lama issue, stated privately that the selection had been rigged in favor of Gyaincain Norbu.

Editor ( 2000 ) Tibet's Great Yogi Milarepa: A Biography from the Tibetan being the Jetsün-Kabbum or Biographical History of Jetsün-Milarepa, According to the Late Lama Kazi Dawa-Samdup's English Rendering.

According to the 14th Dalai Lama — who was present at the encounter — these discussions were important in paving the way for future dialogues between the two religions.

According to Lama was feudalism as the main enemy, and that the royal regime was proping up the feudal system.

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 news reports by France 24 and Al Jazeera, the words and actions of the Dalai Lama constitute a ban on the practice.

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 Shugden adherents, the Fifth Dalai Lama started off in opposition but then changed his mind.

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

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

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 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 report from A. D. Khitrovo, the Russian Border Commissioner in Kyakhta Town, the Dalai Lama and the influential Mongol Khutuktus, high lamas and princes " irrevocably decided to secede from China as an independent federal state, carrying out this operation under the patronage and support from Russia, taking care to avoid the bloodshed ".

According to Reuters, “ The Dalai Lama and his officials, who had also escaped from the palace, rode out of the city on horses to join his family for the trek to India ”.