According to the Theravādin account, this council was convened primarily for the purpose of establishing an official orthodoxy.

According to the Mahāvaṃsa, a Theravādin source, after the Second Council was closed those taking the side of junior monks did not accept the verdict but held an assembly of their own attended by ten thousand calling it a Mahasangiti ( Great Convocation ) from which the school derived its name Mahāsāṃghika.

According to the head of the Armenian Central Bank ’ s ( CBA ) department for financial system policies and analyses ( Vahe Vardanyan ) Armenian banks have no large asset concentrations in foreign markets, particularly in capital markets.

According to the Talmud, extinction of the soul is reserved for a far much smaller group of malicious and evil leaders, either whose very evil deeds go way beyond norms, or who lead large groups of people to utmost evil.

According to Ovid's Metamorphoses, while in labour, Alcmene was having difficulty giving birth to such a large child.

According to D. C. Congressional Delegate Eleanor Holmes Norton, Hill's treatment by the panel also contributed to the large number of women elected to Congress in 1992, " women clearly went to the polls with the notion in mind that you had to have more women in Congress ", she said.

Likewise, Joseph E. Stiglitz, speaking not only on China but East Asia in general, comments " The countries that have managed globalization ... such as those in East Asia, have, by and large, ensured that they reaped huge benefits ..." According to The Heritage Foundation, development in China was anticipated by Milton Friedman, who predicted that even a small progress towards economic liberalization would produce dramatic and positive effects.

According to Pliny the Elder, in 467 BCE a large meteorite landed near Aegospotami.

According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus of raw materials to support trade and a relatively large population.

According to Jocelin of Brakelond, in 1198 during a fire at the abbey of St Edmundsbury ( now Bury St Edmunds ), the monks ' ran to the clock ' to fetch water, indicating that their water clock had a reservoir large enough to help extinguish the occasional fire.

* Compressible: According to Miller, " Uncompressed digital data is very large, and in its raw form would actually produce a larger signal ( therefore be more difficult to transfer ) than analog data.

According to Rummel, these were not cases of genocide because those who were killed were not selected on the basis of their race, but were killed in large numbers as a result of government policies.

According to dot-com theory, an Internet company's survival depended on expanding its customer base as rapidly as possible, even if it produced large annual losses.

" According to Steven Pinker, EP is " not a single theory but a large set of hypotheses " and a term which " has also come to refer to a particular way of applying evolutionary theory to the mind, with an emphasis on adaptation, gene-level selection, and modularity.

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 Ehrman, the Book of Acts tells a different story of Paul's career, but in this case it reports that, while there were " some " Jews converted during Paul's initial preaching in Thessalonica, the gentiles who were converted were " a large number " and the Jews as a body fiercely opposed Paul's work there.

According to Josephus, the Essenes had settled " not in one city " but " in large numbers in every town ".

According to Henry Howard, Oxford paid a large sum for the property and renovations to it.

According to a controversial essay titled " The Death of Environmentalism " ( Michael Shellenberger and Ted Nordhaus, 2004 ) American environmentalism has been remarkably successful in protecting the air, water, and large stretches of wilderness in North America and Europe, but these environmentalists have stagnated as a vital force for cultural and political change.

According to Pearson, the dry cleaners lost his pants ( which he brought in for a $ 10. 50 alteration ) and refused his demands for a large refund.

According to a 1938 Times magazine article, this was one of the first times that commercial use of hydroponics was used on such a large scale to feed people.

According to the National Center for Victims of Crime a large proportion of rape committed in the United States is perpetrated by a family member:

According to writer Mike Carey, " the events leading up to Messiah Complex, Iceman got blindsided by Mystique " are " still preying on to a large extent " and " some of those events be revisited.

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 Burton Stein's History of India, " Kashmir was neither as large nor as old an independent state as Hyderabad ; it had been created rather off-handedly by the British after the first defeat of the Sikhs in 1846, as a reward to a former official who had sided with the British.

According to David Attenborough, the habit of cannibalism may be advantageous in sustaining the large size of adults, as medium-sized prey on the islands is rare.

According to Manoel de Almeida ( a Portuguese missionary in the early 17th century ), there were 21 islands, seven to eight of which had monasteries on them " formerly large, but now much diminished.

According to Jan Nattier, the term Mahāyāna (" Great Vehicle ") was originally even an honorary synonym for Bodhisattvayāna, or the " Bodhisattva Vehicle.

According to some Mahāyāna sources a bodhisattva is someone on the path to full Buddhahood.

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 Jan Nattier, it is most likely that the term Hīnayāna post-dates the term Mahāyāna, and was only added at a later date due to antagonism and conflict between bodhisattvas and śrāvakas.

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 scholar Rupert Gethin, this elevation of karuā to the status of prajña is one of the distinguishing factors between the Theravāda arahant ideal and the Mahāyāna bodhisattva ideal:

According to Jan Nattier, Mahāyāna never referred to a separate sect of Buddhism ( Skt.

According to this account, they split into three groups based upon the relative manner and degree to which they accepted the authority of these Mahāyāna texts.

" According to Sree Padma and Anthony Barber, the Bahuśrutīya understanding of this full exposition included the Mahāyāna teachings.

According to this account, they split into three groups based upon the relative manner and degree to which they accepted the authority of these Mahāyāna texts.

According to Paramārtha, the Ekavyāvahārikas accepted the Mahāyāna sūtras as the words of the Buddha.

According to the 5th century Dharmaguptaka monk Buddhayaśas, the translator of the Dharmaguptaka Vinaya into Chinese, the Dharmaguptaka school had assimilated the " Mahāyāna Tripiṭaka " (, Dàchéng Sānzàng ).

According the Mahāyāna Mahāprajñāpāramitā Śāstra, which is associated with the Vaibhāṣika Sarvāstivādins, in the " Śrāvaka Dharma " ( āgamas and related teachings ), " the Buddha did not say whether or not there are contemporaneous buddhas in the ten directions.

According to Brown ( 1971 ), the increased professionalization of tax collection did much to destroy the traditional structures of provincial life, as it weakened the autonomy of the town councils in the Greek towns.

According to Jody Joy, curator of the Iron Age collection at the British Museum, the importance of Lindow Man lies more in how he lived rather than how he died, as the circumstances surrounding his demise may never be fully established.

According to Phayer, " the face of Pope Pius that we see in these documents is not the same face we see in the eleven volumes the Vatican published of World War II documents, a collection which, though valuable, is nonetheless critically flawed because of its many omissions ".

According to the correspondence principle between classical and quantum mechanics, all objects obey the laws of quantum mechanics, and classical mechanics is just an approximation for large systems of objects ( or a statistical quantum mechanics of a large collection of particles ).

According to its title page, the libretto of La bohème is based on Henri Murger's novel, Scènes de la vie de bohème, a collection of vignettes portraying young bohemians living in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the 1840s.

According to Robert Irwin, Galland " played so large a part in discovering the tales, in popularizing them in Europe and in shaping what would come to be regarded as the canonical collection that, at some risk of hyperbole and paradox, he has been called the real author of the Nights.

According to naive set theory, any definable collection is a set.

According to Debra J. Rosenthal in an introduction to a collection of critical appraisals for the Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, overall reactions have been mixed with some critics praising the novel for affirming the humanity of the African American characters and for the risks Stowe assumed in taking a very public stand against slavery before abolitionism had become a socially acceptable cause, and others criticizing the very limited terms upon which those characters ' humanity was affirmed and the artistic shortcomings of political melodrama.

According to commentary on the DVD collection for the show's first season, part of Krypton's appearance was influenced by the artistic style of American comic book artist Jack Kirby.

According to the Hot Springs, Ark., Sentinel Record newspaper, Billy Purl's gold lamé XERF jacket is part of the Rock ' n ' Roll Hall of Fame's border radio collection in Cleveland, Ohio.

According to Georg Lukács, the verse of Joseph von Eichendorff exemplifies the German Romantic revival of the folk-song tradition, initiated by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder and receiving new impetus with the publication of Achim von Arnim and Clemens Brentano's collection of Folk Songs, Des Knaben Wunderhorn.

According to a manuscript discovered in the early 1980s in the College of Arms collection, the Princes were murdered " be the vise " of the Duke of Buckingham.

According to the genealogy of Mercian kings preserved in the Anglian collection Coenwulf was descended from a brother of Penda's named Cenwealh of whom there is no other record.

According to another view, the quest for authentically Theognidean elegies is rather beside the point — the collection owes its survival to the political motivations of Athenian intellectuals in the 5th and 4th century, disappointed with democracy and sympathetic to old aristocratic values: " The persona of the poet is traditionally based, ideologically conditioned and generically expressed.

According to the press release, " The new collection is titled The Best So Far … because D ' Angelo is far from finished, currently writing and recording his highly anticipated next musical chapter.

According to Irving Wallace ( in an essay originally in his book The Fabulous Originals but later republished and updated in his collection The Sunday Gentleman ) Bell was involved in several police investigations, mostly in Scotland, such as the Ardlamont Mystery of 1893, usually with forensic expert Professor Henry Littlejohn.

According to her husband, Plath began writing the novel in 1961, after publishing her first collection of poetry, The Colossus.

According to the F. J. Peplow, Great Britain, in his book “ The Postage Stamps of Buenos Aires ”, the first clue that an inverted cliché existed on the Buenos Aires “ In Ps ” plate of the “ barquitos ” ( steamships ) was the report of a single stamp with part of the adjoining stamp rotated 180 degree and it had been acquired by Ferrary for his collection.

According to folklore scholar Jack Zipes, one of the best known ballads from the collection is Brentano's original piece " The Lore-Lay " about a siren who lured men to death at the Lorelei, a cliff along the Rhine.

According to the agency ( Spanish ) Data Protection for the collection and dissemination on Internet of images of a person without their consent may be a serious breach of the Data Protection Act which would be punishable by a minimum fine of 60, 000 euros.

According to Marcus Meibomius, in whose collection ( Antiq.

According to the Fagrskinna collection of sagas, King Harald III of Norway uttered these lines of dróttkvætt at the Battle of Stamford Bridge ; the internal assonances and the alliteration are bolded:

According to a well known architecture critic, the new extension had three main tasks: " how to dock amicably with the existing architecture ; how to provide the resulting whole with a new street ' address '; how to create a logical, legible and deferential hanging space for the collection.

According to tradition, Confucius ( 551 BCE – 479 BCE ) was the final editor of the collection in its present form, although the individual poems would accordingly all be more-or-less older than this.

According to Elena G. Millie, curator of the poster collection at the Library of Congress: