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 '”.

According to adherents of the Latter Day Saint movement, these animals are thought to have existed in North and / or South America.

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

According to the Association of Religion Data Archives County Membership Report ( 2010 ), evangelical Protestantism is the most common religion among adherents in Harrison County, although 37. 69 % of the population does not claim any religion.

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.

According to the 2001 UK census, Christianity is the major religion, followed by Islam, Hinduism, Neo-Paganism, Sikhism, Judaism and Buddhism in terms of number of adherents.

According to 2001 census, the adherents of Buddhism are as follows -

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

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

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 one Nyingma tradition, the first master of the Buddhist Dzogchen lineage in our world was Garab Dorje ( Wylie: dga ' rab rdo rje, Sanskrit * prahevajra ) from Uddiyana ( Wylie:.

According to Garab Dorje, Dzogchen is said to have been passed down as listed following.

" According to Dawa Tsering, spokesperson for the administration of Shamar Rinpoche, " He ( Urgyen Trinley Dorje ) was confident that this meeting would bring peace in the Kagyu School in general and thus help in flourishing Buddha Dharma.

According to the message of International Karma Kagyu Buddhist Organization published on www. karmapa-issue. org: " To underscore his willingness to be supportive, Shamar Rinpoche even provided the necessary help for Ugyen Trinlay Dorje to obtain Indian government's approval for his recent visit to the U. S., though at the same time maintaining the stance that Thrinlay Thaye Dorje is the traditional Karmapa.

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 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 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 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 Katherine Litz, `` the becoming, the process of realization, is the dance ''.

According to the official interpretation of the Charter, a member cannot be penalized by not having the right to vote in the General Assembly for nonpayment of financial obligations to the `` special '' United Nations' budgets, and of course cannot be expelled from the Organization ( which you suggested in your editorial ), due to the fact that there is no provision in the Charter for expulsion.

According to Friends, the unit was organized by John Snook, a former World War 2, commando who is vice president and general manager of the telephone company.

According to Philippoff, the recoverable shear S is given by Af where **yc is the angle of extinction.

According to Whipple ( 1955 ), cometary debris is sufficient to replenish the material spiraling into the sun, maintaining a fairly steady state.

According to the theory proposed, this is a consequence of the severe condition of perceived threat that persists unabated for the anxious child in an ambiguous sort of school environment.

According to the theory underlying odd-lot indices, the trader who trades odd lots is most likely a small trader, one who can't afford to trade round lots.

According to Dr. Ellis, the average 20-year-old American woman is capable of far greater sexual arousal than her partner.

According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

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 Cauchy's functional equation theorem, the logarithm is the only continuous transformation that transforms real multiplication to addition.

According to the definition by IUPAC, the former two are alkanes, whereas the third group is called cycloalkanes.

According to adventurer André Malraux, in his La Condition Humaine ( 1933 ), " If a man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity ?".

According to the Catholic Encyclopedia, an Allocution is a solemn form of address or speech from the throne employed by the Pope on certain occasions.

According to Richard Dawkins, a distinction between agnosticism and atheism is unwieldy and depends on how close to zero we are willing to rate the probability of existence for any given god-like entity.

According to Tillich, the last of these three types of existential anxiety, i. e. spiritual anxiety, is predominant in modern times while the others were predominant in earlier periods.

According to Viktor Frankl, the author of Man's Search for Meaning, when a person is faced with extreme mortal dangers, the most basic of all human wishes is to find a meaning of life to combat the " trauma of nonbeing " as death is near.

According to one analyst, Armenia's economic system is anticompetitive due to the structure of the economy being a type of " monopoly or oligopoly ".

According to the estimate of a former prime minister, Hrant Bagratian, 55 percent of Armenia's GDP is controlled by 44 families.

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, in 2005, cash remittances from Armenians working abroad reached a record-high level of $ 1 billion, which is worth more than one fifth of the country ’ s 2005 Gross Domestic Product.

According to the ROA National Statistical Service, the average monthly salary during January-June 2008 is 86, 850 drams ( about $ 287 at the time ).