Among my school and neighborhood friends, during the next months, I bragged and swaggered and pompously described my impending date.

Among the most famous composers who wrote for the harpsichord were the members of English virginal school of the late Renaissance, notably William Byrd ( ca.

Among the exiled were Damasistratus and his son Theopompus, who had received instruction from the school and went on to study with Isocrates in Athens before becoming a historian.

Among his correspondents are the musician and choirmaster of Antwerp, Jacobus Barbirianus ( Barbireau ), Alexander Hegius, rector of the Latin school at Deventer ( of Erasmian fame ), and the humanist scholar and later famed student of Hebrew, Johannes Reuchlin.

Among these are a literacy center that provides tutoring and small group instruction in literacy for elementary through high school students.

Among the founders of the Tosafist school were Rabbi Jacob b. Meir ( known as Rabbeinu Tam ), who was a grandson of Rashi, and, Rabbenu Tam's nephew, Rabbi Isaac ben Samuel.

“ Among women ages 19 to 44, 73 % of those without a high school education have ever cohabited, compared with about half of women with some college ( 52 %) or a college degree ( 47 %),” note the Pew study ’ s authors, Richard Fry and D ’ Vera Cohn.

Among them: political stability, currency-exchange regulations, political and media censorship, school quality, housing, the environment, public safety.

Among Zeno's other pupils there were Aristo of Chios, Sphaerus, and Cleanthes who succeeded Zeno as the head ( scholarch ) of the Stoic school in Athens.

Among other items, the citizens agreed to charge fixed rates for student housing and food, an annual payment to the school, the right of the school to judge anyone associated with the school and the creation of a Chancellor for the University.

Among the better decisions, the better performance of one's organization, regardless if it is a manufacturing company, a bank, a non-profit organization, a government agency, a school club or even a business school.

Among these monks was the founder of the Lhapa subsect of the Kargyupa school, to whom is attributed the introduction of strategically built dzong.

Among the early is a school of followers of Marcabru, sometimes called the " Marcabrunian school ": Bernart Marti, Bernart de Venzac, Gavaudan, and Peire d ' Alvernhe.

Among the federal education-related programs that were not proposed to be transferred included Headstart, the Department of Agriculture's school lunch and nutrition programs, the Department of the Interior's Indian education programs, and the Department of Labor's education and training programs.

Among the paintings are a portrait of Jeanne d ' Aragon, from the school of Raphael and a portrait of Marie Johanne pa Saumery, comtesse de Cheverny by Pierre Mignard.

Among its schools is the United States ' oldest graduate school of international relations, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Among the people who studied there were Bob de Moor, Jacques Martin, Roger Leloup, and Edgar P. Jacobs, all of whom exhibit the easily recognizable Belgian clean line style, often opposed to the " Marcinelle school "- style, mostly proposed by authors from the Spirou magazine, such as Franquin, Peyo and Morris.

Prince Edward County is the source of Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, a case incorporated into Brown v. Board of Education which ultimately resulted in the desegregation of public schools in the U. S. Among the fives cases decided under Brown, it was the only one initiated by students themselves, after they walked out in 1951 to protest overcrowding and poor conditions at their school under Jim Crow laws.

During the same year ( 1874 ), the Carter County Superintendent in his report said, " Among other difficulties may be mentioned an indifference to the subject of popular education on the part of many citizens, and a reluctance to be taxed for school purposes.

Among Camden's other works are a Greek grammar, which remained a standard school textbook for many years ; Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine ( 1605 ), a more popular English-language companion to Britannia, comprising a collection of themed historical essays ; the official account of the trial of the Gunpowder Plotters ; and a catalogue of the epitaphs at Westminster Abbey.

Among the notable older monasteries is the Choijin Lama Monastery, a Buddhist monastery that was completed in 1908.

Among them are two Churches of Christ ( non-instrumental ), three Roman Catholic churches, four Lutheran churches, three Methodist churches, over a dozen Baptist churches, two LDS Churches, the Bullhead Islamic Center, two Jehovah's Witness Kingdom Halls, two Episcopal churches, two Seventh-day Adventist churches, Unity Church of the Mohave Valley, two Assemblies of God, Foursquare ( Spirit Life Church ), Calvary Chapel, Temple Israel Ba Midbor ( Jewish services in Laughlin ), and active Neo-Pagan ( Coven of the Canyon and River ) and Buddhist communities ( Soka Gakkai Colorado River District ).

Among the community's 25 churches are Anglican, Catholic, Christian, Armenian, Baptist, Buddhist, Mennonite, and many other congregations.

Among the Dharmmadhyaksa officials there is Dharmmadhyaksa ring Kasewan ( State's highest Hindu Shivaist priest ) and Dharmmadhyaksa ring Kasogatan ( State's highest Buddhist priest ), both are the religious laws authorities of each dharmic faiths.

Among the architectural achievements of this period are the Hōryū-ji and the Yakushi-ji, two Buddhist temples in Nara Prefecture.

Among the many Buddhist lineages he studied, practiced and transmitted the three main lineages were the Lineage of the Profound Action transmitted by Maitreya / Asaṅga, Vasubandhu, the Lineage of Profound View transmitted by Manjushri / Nagarjuna, Chandrakirti, and the Lineage of Profound Experience transmitted by Vajradhara / Tilopa, Naropa.

Among his other works are his edition of Hariri ( 1822 ), with a selected Arabic commentary, and of the Alfiya ( 1833 ), and his Calila et Dimna ( 1816 ), the Arabic version of that famous collection of Buddhist animal tales which has been in various forms one of the most popular books of the world.

Among the notable people Roerich befriended while in England were the famed British Buddhist Christmas Humphreys, philosopher-author H. G. Wells, and the poet and Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore ( whose grand-niece Devika Rani would later marry Roerich's son Sviatoslav ).

Among these Eastern ( Asian ) religions Buddhist centres are officially registered in Bulgaria as religious denominations.

Among the many canonical Buddhist sources articulating a philosophical " Examination of Essence ," stands Nagarjuna's Mulamadhyamakakarika, The Fundamental Wisdom of the Middle Way.

Among the frequented routes of the Silk Route was the Burmese route extending from Bhamo, which served as a path for Marco Polo's visit to Yunnan and Indian Buddhist missions to Canton in order to establish Buddhist monasteries.

Among the many objects in the Denman Waldo Ross collection at the Museum are a stone head from Angkor Wat, a 7th century Chinese scroll painting attributed to Yan Liben, a set of ukiyo-e folding screen paintings of Kyoto's pleasure quarters, and a number of Chinese Buddhist steles and paintings.

* John H. Crook and James Low, The Yogins of Ladakh: A Pilgrimage Among the Hermits of the Buddhist Himalayas.

Among them are classics like his " Tibetan-Sanskrit Dictionary ", " Materials for a History of Tibetan Literature ", " Buddhist Iconography of Tibet ", and his " Dictionary of Buddhist Art " in about 20 volumes.

Among other things, in a secret laboratory affiliated with the secret police, Bokii and Barchenko also experimented with Buddhist spiritual techniques, trying to find a key to engineer perfect communist human beings Similarly, Heinrich Himmler and Rudolf Hess sent a German expedition to Tibet in 1930, and then again in 1934-35, and in 1938-39.

Among the detractors is Romila Thapar, who writes that archaeological evidence casts doubt on the claims of Buddhist persecution by Pushyamitra.

Among the Dharmaguptaka Gandhāran Buddhist texts in the Schøyen Collection, is a fragment in the Kharoṣṭhī script referencing the Six Pāramitās, a central practice for bodhisattvas in Mahāyāna doctrine.

Among other publications, it produces The Buddhist Directory, a reference book which lists the vast majority of Buddhist groups, centres and other related organisations in the United Kingdom and Ireland, and The Middle Way, a quarterly journal.

Among his most famous recurring motifs are smiling flowers, iconic characters, mushrooms, skulls, Buddhist iconography, and the sexual complexes of otaku culture.

Among the important excavations of Buddhist sites in Swat an important one is Butkarha-I, containing original relics of the Buddha.

Among his calligraphic work, a number of copies of Buddhist Sūtras and other texts survive and he wrote name boards for halls in Daeheung-sa, Bongeun-sa and other temples.