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 the Larger Sūtra of Immeasurable Life ( Mahāyāna Amitāyus Sūtra ) Amitābha was, in very ancient times and possibly in another system of worlds, a monk named Dharmakāra.

According to the Kalpa Sūtra of Bhadra-bāhu, the 24th himself emerged out of the great ; whereas the 22nd emerged out of the great vimāna Aparijita.

According to Burton Watson, the Vimalakīrti Sūtra probably originated in India in approximately 100 CE.

According to the Theravādin Nikāyasaṅgraha, the large Mahāyāna collection called the Mahāratnakūṭa Sūtra ( Taishō Tripiṭaka 310 ) was composed by the " Andhakas ", meaning the Caitika schools of the Āndhra region.

According to Joseph Walser, there is evidence that the Pañcaviṃśatisāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( 25, 000 lines ) and the Śatasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( 100, 000 lines ) have a connection with the Dharmaguptaka sect, while the Aṣṭasāhasrikā Prajñāpāramitā Sūtra ( 8000 lines ) does not.

According to Keown, " there is considerable disparity between the Pāli and the versions, with more than two-thirds of the sūtras found in one but not the other compilation, which suggests that much of this portion of the Sūtra Piṭaka was not formed until a fairly late date.

According to Keown, " there is considerable disparity between the Pāli and the Sarvāstivādin versions, with more than two-thirds of the sūtras found in one but not the other compilation, which suggests that much of this portion of the Sūtra Piṭaka was not formed until a fairly late date.

According to the Buddha every Buddha in the past and to come will have two chief disciples and one attendant during his ministry.

According to the Theravāda teacher Bhikkhu Bodhi the bodhisattva path was not taught by Buddha.

According to many traditions within Mahāyāna Buddhism, on the way to becoming a Buddha, a bodhisattva proceeds through ten, or sometimes fourteen, grounds or bhūmis.

According to the traditional accounts, Gautama, the future Buddha, was a prince who grew up in an environment of luxury and opulence.

According to the scriptures, during his lifetime the Buddha remained silent when asked several metaphysical questions.

According to this theory, the cycle of philosophical upheavals that in part drove the diversification of Buddhism into its many schools and sects only began once Buddhists began attempting to make explicit the implicit philosophy of the Buddha and the early suttas.

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 Nihon Shoki, Emperor Kimmei received a bronze statue of Buddha as a gift from the king of Paekche King Song Myong ( 聖明王, Seimei Ō ) along with a significant envoy of artisans, monks, and other artifacts in 552.

According to one famous episode, shortly after the Soga's began worshipping the new Buddha statue, a plague broke out, which the Mononobe's promptly attributed to a curse by Japan's traditional deities as punishment for worshipping the foreign god.

According to tradition, the Buddha taught on the four noble truths repeatedly throughout his lifetime, continually expanding and clarifying his meaning.

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.

Nichiren Buddhism is based on the Lotus Sutra: “ According to Nichiren, the Lotus Sutra is the highest teaching of Shakyamuni Buddha.

According to the Buddha, killing, stealing, sexual misconduct and lying are never skillful.

According to the Pali Texts, the Buddha ate meat long as the animal was not killed specifically for Him.

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 the scriptures the reason the Buddha himself gave was that the admission of women would weaken the Sangha and shorten its lifetime, and he laid down strict rules subordinating nuns to monks ( The Eight Garudhammas ).

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

* According to legend, Nagasena creates the Emerald Buddha figurine in Patna, India.

* 1271 – September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.

* September 12 – According to the followers of Nichiren Buddhism, the sect's founder, Nichiren, reaches a turning point known as hosshaku kempon, as he discards his identity as a mortal priest and begins to reveal himself as a reincarnation of the Buddha.

According to scriptural records, these celibate monks and nuns in the time of the Buddha lived an austere life of meditation, living as wandering beggars for nine months out of the year and remaining in retreat during the rainy season.

According to a report in Nature magazine, ( November, 2009 ) the first year-by-year accounting of this mechanism during the industrial era, and the first time scientists have actually measured it, suggests " the oceans are struggling to keep up with rising emissions — a finding with potentially wide implications for future climate.

According to an article by Nicholas Wade published in the New York Times, genetic evidence published in July 2012 in the journal Nature by David Reich of the Harvard Medical School " vindicates " Greenberg's hypothesis of three waves of migration into the Americas.

According to German philosopher Karl Jaspers, when Spinoza wrote " Deus sive Natura " ( God or Nature ) Spinoza did not mean to say that God and Nature are interchangeable terms, but rather that God's transcendence was attested by his infinitely many attributes, and that two attributes known by humans, namely Thought and Extension, signified God's immanence.

According to the historian of ideas, Arthur O. Lovejoy :" The notion that Rousseau ’ s Discourse on Inequality was essentially a glorification of the State of Nature, and that its influence tended to wholly or chiefly to promote " Primitivism " is one of the most persistent historical errors.

According to a 1980 review in Nature by Leslie Orgel and Francis Crick, junk DNA has " little specificity and conveys little or no selective advantage to the organism ".

According to the World Wide Fund for Nature, the combination of climate change and deforestation increases the drying effect of dead trees that fuels forest fires.

According to some views, certain rights derive from God or Nature

According to an article in Nature by Philip Ball, while there are various evidences for silk production in China back to around 2570 BC, newly discovered silk objects from the Indus valley in eastern Pakistan are believed to date from between 2450 BC and 2000 BC, " making them similarly ancient ".

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ), Indonesia has 13 hornbill species: 9 of them exist in Sumatra, and the rest exist in Sumba, Sulawesi, Papua and in Kalimantan has the same hornbill species as in Sumatra, except the Rangkong Papan ( Buceros bicornis ).

According to the bootlegged album of the songs recorded at Kinfauns, George Harrison's Esher home, these include Lennon's " Look at Me " and " Child of Nature ", eventually reworked as " Jealous Guy "; McCartney's " Junk " and " Teddy Boy "; and Harrison's " Not Guilty " and " Circles.

In 1881 he received his doctorate for his thesis on Kant's philosophy of matter, a part of which was subsequently published as " The Nature of Matter According to Kant's Physical Monadology ".

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, " the taxonomic relationships and distributions of Asiatic wild assess should be clarified.

* The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature ( 1677 );

According to Nature, 5, 000 animals are used for each chemical being tested, with 12, 000 needed to test pesticides.

According to Hutcheson, man has a variety of senses, internal as well as external, reflex as well as direct, the general definition of a sense being " any determination of our minds to receive ideas independently on our will, and to have perceptions of pleasure and pain " ( Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions, sect.

His habilitation essay, " Das Wesen der Wahrheit nach der modernen Logik " (" The Nature of Truth According to Modern Logic "), was published in 1910.

According to an ecologist of the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, the frog's Hebrew name, agulashon shehor-gahon, derives from its black belly and round tongue.

According to the Nature Publishing Index Asia-Pacific ( 2012, corrected count ), NTHU ranks as 3rd institution ( 2nd university ) in Taiwan.

According to Williams, philosophers and theologians such as Thomas Dick suggested that the " best place to discover the true attributes of deity was in Nature.

According to an article in Science called “ Farming and the Fate of Wild Nature ” there are also two more kinds of CA that can be used.

According to the book ' As Nature Made Him: The Boy raised As A Girl ' ( p. 174 ) at this conference Money initiated a loud and aggressive argument with Diamond.

According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, the Andean Flamingo is an “ insufficiently known species.

According to the Nature Conservancy summer 2009 magazine, the Santa Cruz Island fox population has rebounded to a population of 700 from being fewer than 100.