According to the Tathagatagarbha sutras, the Buddha taught the existence of this spiritual essence called the tathagatagarbha or Buddha-nature, which is present in all beings and phenomena.

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 some scholars, the Buddha nature which these sutras discuss, does not represent a substantial self ( ātman ).

According to some scholars, the " tathagatagarbha "/ Buddha nature discussed in some Mahayana sutras does not represent a substantial self ( atman ); rather, it is a positive language and expression of sunyata ( emptiness ) and represents the potentiality to realize Buddhahood through Buddhist practices.

According to three particular sutras Amitabha vowed to ensure that anyone who chanted his name would be reborn in his Pure Land of Sukhavati ( Sanskrit, lit.

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 tradition, Anapanasati was originally taught by the Buddha in several sutras including the Ānāpānasati Sutta.

According to most scholars, the main sutras of Mahayana were written after 100 BCE, when sectarian conflicts arose among Nikaya Buddhist sects regarding the humanity or super-humanity of the Buddha and questions of metaphysical essentialism, on which Greek thought may have had some influence: " It may have been a Greek-influenced and Greek-carried form of Buddhism that passed north and east along the Silk Road ".

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 tradition, Nagarjuna retrieved the Mahaprajnaparamita Sutra from the realm of nāgas, though actual reference to Mahayana sutras seems to be scarce in his works.

According to Mahayana hagiography the prajnaparamita sutras contain the teachings on śūnyatā that were delivered at Vulture Peak ( Raj Gir ).

According to author Dilip M. Salwi, " if Kanada ’ s sutras are analysed, one would find that his atomic theory was far more advanced than those forwarded later by the Greek philosophers, Leucippus and Democritus.

According to the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, " the Federal Reserve has the authority and financial resources to act as ' lender of last resort ' by extending credit to depository institutions or to other entities in unusual circumstances involving a national or regional emergency, where failure to obtain credit would have a severe adverse impact on the economy.

According to surveys, some of the most common fears are of ghosts, the existence of evil powers, cockroaches, spiders, snakes, heights, water, enclosed spaces, tunnels, bridges, needles, social rejection, failure, examinations and public speaking.

According to that view, preeclampsia is caused by a failure of the mother to accept the fetus and placenta, which both contain " foreign " proteins from the father's genes.

According to Democratic Kampuchea's version of party history, the Viet Minh's failure to negotiate a political role for the KPRP at the 1954 Geneva Conference represented a betrayal of the Cambodian movement, which still controlled large areas of the countryside and which commanded at least 5, 000 armed men.

According to the physicians attending Harding, however, the symptoms prior to his death all pointed to congestive heart failure.

According to the Greek historian Herodotus, Xerxes's first attempt to bridge the Hellespont ended in failure when a storm destroyed the flax and papyrus cables of the bridges ; Xerxes ordered the Hellespont ( the strait itself ) whipped three hundred times and had fetters thrown into the water.

According to this view, famines are a result of entitlements, the theory being proposed is called the " failure of exchange entitlements " or FEE.

According to Holland, failure to appreciate key points of the de Broglie – Bohm theory has led to confusion, the key point being " that the trajectories of a many-body quantum system are correlated not because the particles exert a direct force on one another ( à la Coulomb ) but because all are acted upon by an entity – mathematically described by the wavefunction or functions of it – that lies beyond them.

According to The Institute for Research on World-Systems, Kamakura was the 4th largest city in the world in 1250 AD, with 200, 000 people, and Japan's largest, eclipsing Kyoto by 1200 AD. Yet, despite Kamakura's annihilation of Kyoto-based political and military power at the Battle of Dan-no-ura in 1185, and the failure of the Emperor to free himself from Kamakura's control during the Jōkyū War, Takahashi ( 2005 ) has questioned whether Kamakura's nationwide political hegemony actually existed.

According to one study, approximately 5 % of women who have had tubal ligation will have a failure due to ectopic pregnancy.

According to Bede, the British Christians ' failure to " complete " the sacrament of Baptism was one of the three specific issues with British practice that Augustine could not overlook.

According to Ferenczi, "… One learned from and from his kind of technique various things that made one ’ s life and work more comfortable: the calm, unemotional reserve ; the unruffled assurance that one knows better ; and the theories, the seeking and finding of the causes of failure in the patient instead of partly in ourselves … and finally the pessimistic view, shared only with a few, that neurotics are a rabble, good only to support us financially and to allow us to learn from their cases: psychoanalysis as a therapy may be worthless " ( Ferenczi, 1995, pp. 185 – 186 ).

According to NASA: " An investigation board concluded that the most likely cause of the mishap was structural failure of the spacecraft due to plume heating during the solid-rocket motor burn.

According to the historian John D. Winters in his The Civil War in Louisiana, " Such a strong force of Confederate cavalry occupied the Mississippi side opposite St. Joseph that all Federal attempts to close the transit in January ended in failure.

According to Bell et al., " Sometimes, improbable reports are erroneously assumed to be symptoms of mental illness ," due to a " failure or inability to verify whether the events have actually taken place, no matter how improbable intuitively they might appear to the busy clinician.

According to rumours supported by Dexippus ( a contemporary Greek historian ) and the Thirteenth Sibylline Oracle, Decius ' failure was largely owing to Gallus who had conspired with the invaders.

According to unschooling pioneer John Holt, "... the anxiety children feel at constantly being tested, their fear of failure, punishment, and disgrace, severely reduces their ability both to perceive and to remember, and drives them away from the material being studied into strategies for fooling teachers into thinking they know what they really don't know.

According to these rationalists, there is shame and disgrace attached to failure to investigate matters of religious principle using the fullest powers of human reason and intellect.

According to film critic Leonard Maltin, professional failure following an early success is referred to in Hollywood circles as the " F. Murray Abraham syndrome ".

According to Belbin and his research team " the research revealed that the difference between success and failure for a team was not dependent on factors such as intellect, but more on behavior " ( Belbin ).

According to Mason, by 1939, the “ overheating ” of the German economy caused by rearmament, the failure of various rearmament plans produced by the shortages of skilled workers, industrial unrest caused by the breakdown of German social policies, and the sharp drop in living standards for the German working class forced Hitler into going to war at a time and place not of his choosing.

According to The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East, " most of the criticism for failure the 2000 Camp David Summit was leveled at Arafat ".

According to Hiltermann, the literature on the Iran-Iraq war reflects a number of allegations of chemical weapons use by Iran, but these are " marred by a lack of specificity as to time and place, and the failure to provide any sort of evidence ".

According to Livingston, " In 1998 the National Commission for Human Rights issued a report charging gross irregularities and general negligence in state investigations, including the misidentification of corpses, failure to obtain expert tests on forensic evidence, failure to conduct autopsies or obtain semen analysis ... failure to file written reports, incompetence in keeping records of the rising tide of women murders.

According to the Department of Defense, the " Order of Titus award is the only award presented by the Chief of Chaplains to recognize outstanding performance of ministry by chaplains and chaplain assistants.

According to Yevgenii Pasternak, " I couldn ’ t recognize my father when I saw him that evening.

According to a popular West Indian belief, Dominica is the only New World territory that Columbus would still recognize.

According to Akhil Reed Amar, the framers and early supporters of the Fourteenth Amendment believed that it would ensure that the states would be required to recognize the individual rights the federal government was already required to respect in the Bill of Rights and in other constitutional provisions ; all of these rights were likely understood as falling within the " privileges or immunities " safeguarded by the amendment.

According to Mills, " It ’ s time for the Academy to recognize this genius ," adding that " We applauded when the great Chaplin finally had his hour.

According to its Web site, MLB. com, Major League Baseball continues to recognize Cobb's final hit total as 4, 191, though independent research has revealed that two of Cobb's hits were counted twice.

According to some Islamic traditions, the day is stated to be the original holy day ordained by God, but that now Jews and Christians recognize the days after.

According to several biographies of Earhart, Putnam investigated this rumor personally but after listening to many recordings of numerous Tokyo Roses, he did not recognize her voice among them.

According to this view, states must recognize ethnic identity and develop processes through which the particular needs of ethnic groups can be accommodated within the boundaries of the nation-state.

According to the Mainland Affairs Council of the ROC, the major obstacle resided in the PRC's One-China position which does not recognize the sovereignty of the ROC.

According to the foundation the Bradley Prize is to " formally recognize individuals of extraordinary talent and dedication who have made contributions of excellence in areas consistent with The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation ’ s mission.

According to Marco Deseriis, the main purpose of the LBP was to create " a folk hero of the information society " whereby knowledge workers and immaterial workers could organize and recognize themselves.

According to the treaty, both rulers were allowed to retain the territories which they then held, but the childless John I promised to recognize the Habsburgs ' succession.

According to Song Yun, the Chinese Buddhist monk who visited the Hephthalite territory in 540 AD and " provides accurate accounts of the people, their clothing, the empresses and court procedures and traditions of the people and he states the Hephthalites did not recognize the Buddhist religion and they preached pseudo gods, and killed animals for their meat.

According to Roth, " This amendment will formally recognize that character of military service which arises under the most hostile and difficult of circumstances -- that of being held prisoner by the enemy.

According to Sir John Bowring ( A Visit to the Philippine Island ) " the priests have been generally willing to recognize the name Bathala as not objectionable in substitution for Dios ( God )".

According to Meltzoff, the infant's innate understanding that others are " like me " allows it to recognize the equivalence between the physical and mental states apparent in others and those felt by the self.

According to this theory, the immune system consists of cells that have specific receptors on their surface to recognize antigens.

According to Balsan, the answer was no, because " Palestine is not a state we recognize in our rules.

According to Hugh de Ferranti, “ outside of the realms of scholarship and the few who are involved in learning and performing ,” few Japanese civilians are familiar with the aural qualities of the biwa and cannot recognize its tones with references to ancient war-tales.

According to the British Government, they did not recognize the Spanish claim to the island which they referred to as " Crab Island ".

According to his writings, Freire heavily endorses students ’ ability to think critically about their education situation ; this way of thinking allows them to " recognize connections between their individual problems and experiences and the social contexts in which they are embedded.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented to " vocal or instrumental albums containing at least 51 % playing time of newly recorded material ", with the intent to recognize the " blending " of jazz music with Argentinian, Brazilian, Iberian-American, and Latin tango music.

According to the category description guide for the 52nd Grammy Awards, the award is presented " to recognize an individual ( s ) who takes previously recorded material and adds or alters it in such a way as to create a new and unique performance ".