As a result, the Bonpos claim that the supposedly much later teaching at least indirectly owes its origin to Tonpa Shenrab Miwoche.

Bonpos also suggest that during this time Lord Shenrab Miwoche's teaching permeated the entire subcontinent and was in part responsible for the development of the Vedic religion.

# Bonpos have some sacred texts, of neither Sanskrit nor Tibetan origin, which include some sections written in the ancient Zhangzhung language.

The Bonpo school is said by some to now resemble most closely the Nyingma school, the oldest school of Tibetan Buddhism, which traces its lineage to the first transmission of Buddhism into Tibet, while other researchers say many practices of Bonpos resemble folk Taoism.

Both Buddhists and Bonpos agree that when Buddhism succeeded in gaining royal patronage in Tibet in the eighth and ninth centuries, Bon suffered a serious setback.

Nonetheless, no scholars have yet identified a major center of Buddhist learning in Persia which corresponds to the Bonpos ' land of Tagzig Olmo Lung Ring.

According to the Bonpos themselves, the Bon religion has actually gone through three distinct phases: Animistic Bon, Yungdrung or Eternal Bon, and New Bon.

This was re-stated in 1987 by the Dalai Lama, who also forbade discrimination against the Bonpos, stating that it was both undemocratic and self-defeating.

# Bonpos circumambulate chortens or other venerated structures counter-clockwise ( i. e., with the left shoulder toward the object ), rather than clockwise ( as Buddhists do ).

# Bonpos use the yungdrung ( g. yung-drung or sauvastika ) instead of the dorje ( rdo-rje, vajra ) as a symbol and ritual implement.

# Instead of a bell, in their rituals Bonpos use the shang, a cymbal-like instrument with a " clapper " usually made of animal horn.

Bonpos consider Bon to be a superset of Buddhist paths.

This allowed them to pick the Nyingmapa and Bonpos, who recited many magic-mantras.

This allowed them to pick the Nyingmapa and Bonpos, who recited many magic-mantras.

The claim that Lord Shenrab was born 180 centuries ago is generally not taken literally, but is rather understood as an allusion to a master born in the very distant past.

Legends claim variously that Laozi was " born old "; that he lived for 996 years, with twelve previous incarnations starting around the time of the Three Sovereigns before the thirteenth as Laozi.

Herodotus estimates that Homer lived 400 years before Herodotus ' own time, which would place him at around 850 BC ; while other ancient sources claim that he lived much nearer to the supposed time of the Trojan War, in the early 12th century BC.

The Arabs had lived in it for centuries, but they had long ceased to rule it, and in view of its peculiar character they could not now claim to possess it in the same way as they could claim possession of Syria or Iraq.

Some sources claim that Nāgārjuna lived on the mountain of Śrīparvata in his later years, near the city that would later be called Nāgārjunakoṇḍa (" Hill of Nāgārjuna ").

Mary never forgave Sigismund for the death of her beloved mother, despite his claim to have punished her murderers, and they subsequently lived separate lives and had separate households.

Muslims claim that it is the tomb of a Shi ' ite Muslim, Sheikh Abbad, considered a founder of the Shi ' ite movement in Lebanon who lived around 500 years ago.

Author Michael Occleshaw made the claim in his 1995 book The Romanov Conspiracies: The Romanovs and the House of Windsor that Tatiana might have been rescued and transported to England, where she married a British officer and lived under the name Larissa Tudor.

Among those who can lay claim to fame, and who have either been born or lived in Beckenham or have had some important contribution to make to the town, there are show business people such as Bob Monkhouse ( 1928 – 2003 ); Julie Andrews ( 1935-); David Bowie ( 1947-), who lived at 42 Southend Road, Beckenham from 1969 – 1973 ; Peter Frampton ( 1950-); Wende Snijders ( 1978-), the Dutch singer ; and the actors Maurice Denham ( 1909 – 2002 ), and Simon Ward ( 1941 – 2012 ).

Colborn, who had lived on the claim of which the town site formed a part, since 1857.

Rijnsburg's main claim to fame is that the philosopher Spinoza lived there from 1661 to 1663.

Old Legends claim that Cabool was named after the Indian chief that lived there, whose name was " Chief Kabul " ( pronounced Kay-Bull ).

Alvin's claim to fame is Baseball Hall of Famer Nolan Ryan, who moved with his family to the city in 1947 as an infant and lived there until he moved to Round Rock in 2003.

Peter Buckley, 42 years old, lived about 1 / 2 mile away and also gave testimony supporting Downey's homestead claim.

Abingdon is one of several places that claim to be Britain's oldest continuously occupied town, with people having lived there for at least 6, 000 years.

Later scholarship has cast doubt on Chateaubriand's claim that he had been granted an interview with George Washington or whether he actually lived for a time with the Native Americans he wrote about.

Some traditions hold that she was Creek, because she had lived among that tribe prior to marriage ; some hold that she was Cherokee, having died in old age living among that tribe ; still others hold that she was a white captive, as family stories claim that Puckshinwa had been married to a white captive.

According to the Cold War scholar John Lewis Gaddis in his book " The Cold War: A New History " ( 2005 ), " Leonid Brezhnev had looked forward, Anatoly Dobrynin recalls, to the ' publicity he would gain ... when the Soviet public learned of the final settlement of the postwar boundaries for which they had sacrificed so much '... ' the Helsinki Accords gradually became a manifesto of the dissident and liberal movement '... What this meant was that the people who lived under these systems — at least the more courageous — could claim official permission to say what they thought.

Yitzhak Magen and Yuval Peleg entered the discussion commenting on how one could feed such large numbers of community members: " Were we to accept the claim that the sect lived at Qumran for about 170 years, we would expect to find hundreds of cooking and baking ovens as well as thousands of cooking pots.

This claim has since been refuted by Novoselic, who said, " He never lived under that bridge.

These children claim they lived with their identity in an inner exile until the 1980s, when some of them presented themselves officially.

Cincinnati possessed perhaps the strongest argument for such a claim as Lewis had lived there for a time while researching the book.

Ten of the spies returned to say that the land would be impossible to claim, and that giants lived there who would crush the Hebrew army.

Later, riding in for some lusty enjoyment of the liquor and professional ladies of Cheyenne, he laid claim to the killing with the vague insinuations he made.

Peace, it's wonderful, and `` world law '', it's wonderful, too, and shouldn't we get an international covenant extending it into space, before the Russians put some claim jumper on the moon??

There are some clubs which claim they learned something about pitching to him last year.

Not surprisingly, Dr. Ellis says, some recently enlightened wives are out to claim these capabilities.

With traditional nationalistic spirit, some Englishmen claim that English Catholicism is Catholicism at its best.

In some senses, agnosticism is a stance about the difference between belief and knowledge, rather than about any specific claim or belief.

Modern cultures in this region, many of whom claim some of these ancient people as ancestors, contain a striking range of diversity in lifestyles, social organization, language and religious beliefs.

If my poor talents can be useful in any other land, they must be of some utility to Italy ; and ought not her claim to be preferred to all others?

Thus, during the abdication crisis of 1936, caused by Edward VIII's desire to marry Wallis Simpson, the consent of all realms concerned, along with, in some cases, new acts of parliament, was required in Britain and throughout the British Dominions to allow for Edward's stepping aside and to ensure that if he had any children they would have no claim to the thrones.

Pervo sees Luke ’ s work as a “ legitimizing narrative ” because it makes “ a case by telling a story ( or stories )” and serves to legitimate either “ Pauline Christianity ( possibly in rivalry to other interpretations ) or generally as the claim of the Jesus-movement to possess the Israelite heritage .” On the other hand, some scholars greatly disagree with the view of legitimation because they believe that it “ mirror-reads ” Luke ’ s work attempting to uncover the circumstances surrounding Luke ’ s work by over-arguing something that may not be that valid.

In particular, we cannot in general claim that " P or not P " is true ( the law of Excluded Middle ), since in some cases we may not be able to prove the statement " P " nor prove the statement " not P ".

Until recent years, few people without some genuine claim to fame wrote or published autobiographies for the general public.

Churches that claim some form of episcopal apostolic succession, dating back to the apostles or to leaders from the apostolic era, include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Church of the East, the Anglican Communion, and some Lutheran Churches ( see below ).

While some Anglicans claim it for their communion, their views are often nuanced and there is widespread reluctance to ' unchurch ' Christian bodies which lack it.

Furthermore, they claim that in the Bible there's no evidence showing that the office must be conveyed by laying on of hands and no Biblical command that it must be by a special class of bishops ( the laying on of hands is repeatedly used to give a commission to some person in scripture.

His superior command of Greek, and the fact that the vast majority of his writings were in Greek, led some in the West to claim that he was a Greek born in Alexandria.

Catholic, Orthodox, Anglican, Old Catholic and some Lutheran bishops ( for example, Sweden ) claim to be part of the continuous sequence of ordained bishops since the days of the apostles referred to as apostolic succession.

The majority of the population is French, but there are sizable groups of Italians, Spaniards ( Up to 20 % of the Bordeaux population claim some degree of Spanish heritage ), Portuguese, Turks, Germans and North Africans ..

The use of the term Bretwalda was the attempt by a West Saxon chronicler to make some claim of West Saxon kings to the whole of Great Britain.

English history of the battle disputes this, as some claim that the narrow bodkin point arrows they used have been proven capable of penetrating most plate armour of that time period.

They note his lack of action during the Rwanda genocide and his welfare reform which some claim led to the worst child poverty since the 1960s along with the fact that the number of black people in jail increased during his administration.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

Some of this $ 2. 5 trillion is invested in claim checks — U. S. bonds, both governmental and private — and some in such assets as property and equity securities.

" The use of amplified guitars accentuates Bob's claim, some Bob Wills recordings from the ` 30's and ` 40's sound similar to rock and roll records in the ` 50's.