According to the Buddhist tradition, the dukkha of conditioned states ( saṃkhāra-dukkha ) is related to clinging to the skandhas.

According to S. N. Goenka, a teacher of Vipassana meditation, the original meaning of dhamma is " dharayati iti dharmaH ", or " one that contains, supports or upholds " and dharma in the Buddhist scriptures has a variety of meanings, including " phenomenon " and " nature " or " characteristic ".

According to Tibetan Buddhist literature, the age of first Buddha was 1, 000, 000 years and height was 100 cubits while 28th Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama ( 563BC – 483BC ) lived 80 years and his height was 20 cubits.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Buddha first taught the four noble truths in the very first teaching he gave after he attained enlightenment, as recorded in the discourse Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma ( Dharmacakra Pravartana Sūtra ), and he further clarified their meaning in many subsequent teachings.

According to Padmanabh Jaini, his emphasis on reaping the fruits only of one ’ s own karma was not restricted to the Jainas ; both Hindus and Buddhist writers have produced doctrinal materials stressing the same point.

According to Buddhist teachers, the experience of lucidity helps us understand the unreality of phenomena, which would otherwise be overwhelming during dream or the death experience.

According to discourses found in both the Theravada school's Pali canon, and some of the Āgamas in the Chinese Buddhist canon, the Noble Eightfold Path was rediscovered by Gautama Buddha during his quest for enlightenment.

According to a 4th / 5th-century biography translated by Kumārajīva, Nāgārjuna was born into a Brahmin family, and later became a Buddhist.

According to the Tibetan Buddhist tradition based on the lineage texts regarding prayer wheels, spinning such a wheel will have much the same meritorious effect as orally reciting the prayers.

According to a Tibetan legendary tradition, Songtsän Gampo also married a Nepalese Buddhist princess, Bhrikuti.

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Buddha told his followers:

According to the Indian medical literature and Tantric Buddhist scriptures, most of the " seizers ," or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: cow, lion, fox, monkey, horse, dog, pig, cat, crow, pheasant, owl, and snake.

* According to the Theravāda commentaries and chronicles, the Third Buddhist Council is convened by the Mauryan king Ashoka at Pataliputra ( modern Patna ), under the leadership of the monk Moggaliputta Tissa.

According to early Buddhist scripture, the Buddha refused to answer certain questions regarding metaphysical propositions, known as the fourteen unanswerable questions ( the Pali Canon only gives ten ).

According to Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, his Seat was the monastery bkra shis lhun po dgon pa ( Tashilhunpo ),

According to the Agency of Cultural Affairs, 91 million Japanese identify themselves as Buddhist.

According to tradition, Menander embraced the Buddhist faith, as described in the Milinda Panha, a classical Pali Buddhist text on the discussions between Milinda and the Buddhist sage Nāgasena.

According to them, the Buddhist view of god is there are many gods or no god.

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 Buddhist legend, prior to the manifestation of Shakyamuni Buddha there were numerous other historical Buddhas.

According to Tibetan Buddhist tradition, the arrival of Padmasambhava represents the first transmission of the faith.

According to Tibetan sources, Atiśa was ordained into the Mahasamghika lineage at the age of twenty-eight by the Abbot Śīlarakṣita and studied almost all Buddhist and non-Buddhist schools of his time, including teachings from Vishnu, Shiva, Tantric Hinduism and other beliefs.

According to Steven H Silver, alternate history requires three things: 1 ) the story must have a point of divergence from the history of our world prior to the time at which the author is writing, 2 ) a change that would alter history as it is known, and 3 ) an examination of the ramifications of that change.

According to F. W. Dobbs-Allsopp, " the widely observed unity of form and point of view ... and general resemblance in linguistic detail throughout the sequence are broadly suggestive of the work of a single author ," though other scholars see Lamentations as the work of multiple authors.

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 Françoise Hélène Pairault's study, historical and archaeological evidence point to the fact that both Diana of the Aventine and Diana Nemorensis were the product of the direct or indirect influence of the cult of Artemis spread by the Phoceans among the Greek towns of Campania Cuma and Capua, which in turn passed it over to the Etruscans and the Latins by the VI and V centuries BC.

According to the American Kennel Club ’ s breed standards, " the dachshund is clever, lively and courageous to the point of rashness, persevering in above and below ground work, with all the senses well-developed.

According to the Jewish Encyclopedia, the large number of people claimed to have been killed by the Jews is an improbability ; " Perhaps the most striking point against the historical value of the Book of Esther is the remarkable decree permitting the Jews to massacre their enemies and fellow subjects during a period of two days.

According to the Talmud, however, the point of Qoheleth is to state that all is futile under the Sun.

) According to the Muratorian fragment, Marcion's canon contained an epistle entitled Epistle to the Laodiceans which is commonly thought to be a forgery written to conform to his own point of view.

According to Rao, " St. Francis Xavier made it a point not only to convert the people but also destroy the idols and ancient places of worship.

According to the canonical Gospels, Jesus was the " son " ( descendant ) of David ; thus, Hajj Sayed argues that this statement confirms the Gospel of Barnabas ' point.

According to Ducellier the Petrelë Castle | castle of Petrela was the access point to the region known with this name On the location of Arbanon see also

According to a 2005 poll, most of Finns at that point were reluctant to join NATO.

According to Lemley, it was only at this point that the term really began to be used in the United States ( which had not been a party to the Berne Convention ), and it did not enter popular usage until passage of the Bayh-Dole Act in 1980.

According to Irenaeus, the high point in salvation history is the advent of Jesus.

According to the definition established in a 1932 convention signed by Denmark, Norway and Sweden ( registered in the League of Nations Treaty Series 199-1933 ), the northern boundary between Kattegat and Skagerrak is found at the northernmost point of Skagen on Jutland and the southern boundary towards Oresund is found at the tip of Kullen Peninsula in Scania.

According to Steve Erlewine, its memorable guitar riffs, lumbering rhythms, psychedelic blues, groovy, bluesy shuffles and hints of English folk, made it " a significant turning point in the evolution of hard rock and heavy metal ".

According to the authors, their discoveries point to a tradition of proto-dentistry in the early farming cultures of that region.

According to the Bible, Nazareth was also where Jesus grew up from some point in his childhood.

According to Rand, " man's mind will not function at the point of a gun.

According to Greek sources, principally Theophanes, it was at this point that Gregory excommunicated Leo.

According to a legend, at some point while he was on the run during the winter of 1306 – 07, Bruce hid in a cave on Rathlin Island off the north coast of Ireland, where he observed a spider spinning a web, trying to make a connection from one area of the cave's roof to another.

According to Australian maps, South Australia's south coast is flanked by the Southern Ocean, but official international consensus defines the Southern Ocean as extending north from the pole only to 60 ° S or 55 ° S, at least 17 degrees of latitude further south than the most southern point of South Australia.

According to the New York Times of June 16, 2009, Sosa had also tested positive for steroids at some point during the season.