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 his student Kunzang Palden, Mipham had been asked by his teacher Jamyang Khyentse Wangpo to write a survey of all the major Mahayana philosophic shastras for use in the Nyingma monastic colleges.

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 Táríkhu-l Hind by Al-Biruni, Kabul was governed by princes of Turkic lineage whose rule lasted for 60 generations.

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 the lineage texts on prayer wheels, prayer wheels are used to accumulate wisdom and merit ( good karma ) and to purify negativities ( bad karma ).

According to an archaic myth he was sired by Cronus when he had taken the form of a horse and impregnated the nymph Philyra, Chiron's lineage was different from other centaurs, who were born of sun and raincloud, rendered by Greeks of the Classic period as from the union of the king Ixion, consigned to a fiery wheel, and Nephele (" cloud "), which in the Olympian telling Zeus invented to look like Hera.

According to Chinese legend, the Zhou lineage began with Emperor Ku and proceeded from him to Qi, Buku, Ju, and then Gongliu, before Gugong Danfu moved the Zhou clan from Bin ( 豳 or 邠 ) to an area in the Wei River valley, where they founded a town that became central to the Zhou clan's growing prosperity.

According to some accounts, his grandfather was descended from a line of Muslims tracing their lineage back to Persia, while another traces his lineage instead to the area of present-day Afghanistan.

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 an evolutionary psychology hypothesis that assumes that descent systems are optimized to assure genetic high genetic probability of relatedness between lineage members, males should prefer a patrilineal system if paternal certainty is high ; males should prefer a matrilineal system if paternal certainty is low.

According to this viewpoint, the community thus lacks spiritual lineage, which some Buddhists believe to be important.

According to the European plan ( sometimes referred to as the British plan ), the function of cells is determined by its genetic lineage.

According to the Malay Annals, Parameswara the founder of Malacca Sultanate claimed to be the member of the Palembang Srivijaya lineage.

According to C. Bernard Ruffin, John and Mercy were possibly first cousins, however " by the time Fanny Crosby came to write her memoirs 1906, the fact that her mother and father were related ... had become a source of embarrassment, and she maintained that she did not know anything about his lineage ".

According to, his lineage goes: " Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi ," making him the great-grandson of the patriarch Levi and the cousin of Moses and Aaron.

According to the legends, in the Satya yuga, Indradyumna was a Lunar Dynasty king of Somavamsa lineage.

According to their own detailed chronicled lineage, they trace their descent much further back in Indian History from King Ashwapati ( circa 700. B. C ) who was a monarch of Nepal and from the solar lineage of Lord Ram.

According to Bichitra Natak, said to be the autobiography of the last Sikh Guru Gobind Singh, but whose authenticity is a matter of ongoing dispute, the Bedi sub-caste of the Khatris derives its lineage from Kush, the son of Rama in the Hindu mythology.

" According to Matthew Henry, the Gospels emphasize a trinitarian aspect of Davidic lineage.

According to the United States Army Center of Military History, RRCs such as the 88th have the same number as inactivated divisions and are allowed to wear the shoulder patch, but division lineage and honors are not inherited by an RRC, which is not considered as a successor to a division.

Note: According to the U. S. Army Center of Military History, regional support commands ( RSCs ), such as the 99th, do not perpetuate the lineage and honors of infantry divisions.

According to a Uganda Travel Guide, the traditional lineage of Batembuzi kings is ;

) According to oral tradition, an unknown ship called at Pukapuka in the 18th century, and when the lineage chief Tawaki boldly took the captain's pipe out of his mouth, he was shot.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

According to Cynthia Stewart, during the Reformation, the Protestant reformers used " the founding myths of Christianity " to critique the church of their time.

According to Fred Siegel, the group of militants began to be accepted, if not always admired, by " guilt-ridden liberals ", who saw its panache as a countercultural critique of West Germany's " boring bourgeois life " and who resented their nation's association with the American war in Vietnam.

" According to Eagleton, " Like almost all diatribes against universalism, Fish's critique of universalism has its own rigid universals: the priority at all times and places of sectoral interests, the permanence of conflict, the a priori status of belief systems, the rhetorical character of truth, the fact that all apparent openness is secretly closure, and the like.

*: According to this critique, RBRVS misaligns incentives: because the medical value to the patient of a service is not included in how much is paid for the service, there is no financial incentive to help the patient, nor to minimize costs.

According to Kadare in his literary critique book Eskili, ky humbës i madh (), where loser refers to the big number of tragedies that were lost from Aeschylus, there are evident similarities between the kanun and the vendetta laws in all the Mediterranean countries.

According to philosopher Gianni Vattimo, criticism is used more frequently to denote literary criticism or art criticism, that is the interpretation and evaluation of literature and art ; while critique may be used in the English language to refer to more general and profound writing as Kant's Critique of pure reason.

According to Wallerstein himself, critique of the world-systems approach comes from four directions: from the positivists, the orthodox Marxists, the state autonomists, and the culturalists.

According to Lin Chen-kuo, Hakamaya's view is that " Critical Buddhism sees methodical, rational critique as belonging to the very foundations of Buddhism itself, while ' Topical Buddhism ' emphasizes the priority of rhetoric over logical thinking, of ontology over epistemology.

According to Salmon's critique, the ontological argument thus shows nothing.

According to this critique, interests, both social and economic, are so diverse that a state cannot possibly mediate between them effectively through incorporating them.

According to William Ringler's study, Stephen Gosson, the theater business in London had become a thriving enterprise by 1577, and, in the opinion of many, a thoroughly bad business.

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 the myth, Old Order then vanishes at stage left and reappears at extreme stage right, but Director Shuz skillfully sidesteps the rather gooshey problem of stage effects by simply having Miss Arapacis walk across the stage.

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

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

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

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 M. Forrest, the French knights were so encumbered by their armour that they were exhausted even before the start of the battle.

According to a research report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Oran was decimated by the plague in 1556 and 1678, but outbreaks after European colonization, in 1921 ( 185 cases ), 1931 ( 76 cases ), and 1944 ( 95 cases ), were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.

( Despite common belief, he did not take a day from February ; see the debunked theory on month lengths ) According to a Senatus consultum quoted by Macrobius, he chose this month because it was the time of several of his great triumphs, including the conquest of Egypt.

According to Vahram Nercissiantz, President Serzh Sargsyan's chief economic adviser, " Businessmen holding state positions have turned into oligarchs who have avoided paying sufficient taxes by abusing their state positions, distorted markets with unequal conditions, breached the rules of competition, impeded or prevented small and medium-sized business ’ entry into manufacturing and thereby sharply deepened social polarization in the republic.

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

According to official figures, Armenia ’ s economy grew by 13. 8 percent in 2007.

According to research funded by the USAID CAPS project, Armenia's exceptionally high rate of economic growth during the last decade has been largely dependent on external factors ( e. g., remittances, assistance from international financial and donor organization ).

According to the Central Bank of Armenia, during the first half of 2008, cash remittances sent back to Armenia by Armenians working abroad rose by 57. 5 percent and totaled $ 668. 6 million USD, equivalent to 15 percent of the country's first-half Gross Domestic Product.

According to the National Statistical Service, during the January – August 2007 period, Armenia's industrial sector was the single largest contributor to the country's GDP, but remained largely stagnant with industrial output increasing only by 1. 7 percent per year.

According to official Armenian statistics, it rose by 11 percent to $ 91. 6 million in January – November 2010.

According to research commissioned by the Yerevan office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ( OSCE ), at least one in three working-age Armenians was unemployed as of February 2005 despite several consecutive years of double-digit economic growth.

According to estimates by the National Statistical Survey, the rate of labor emigration was twice as higher in 2001 and 2002.

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

According to Arminius, " God regards no one in Christ unless they are engrafted in him by faith.