Concerning whether the 5th Dalai Lama composed a prayer to Dorje Shugden, the 14th Dalai Lama said that " it is difficult for us to prove convincingly whether it belongs to the Fifth Dalai Lama or not.

In response to the early-to-mid-17th century " continental rationalism " John Locke ( 1632 – 1704 ) proposed in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) a very influential view wherein the only knowledge humans can have is a posteriori, i. e., based upon experience.

Further material was gleaned from the De honesta disciplina of 1504 by Petrus Crinitus, which included extracts from Michael Psellos's De daemonibus, and the De Mysteriis Aegyptiorum ( Concerning the mysteries of Egypt ...), a book on Chaldean and Assyrian magic by Iamblichus, a 4th century Neo-Platonist.

As early as the fifth century BC, Protagoras, who is reputed to have been exiled from Athens because of his agnosticism about the existence of the gods, said that " Concerning the gods I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, or what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

David Hume, in the mid-18th century, presented arguments both for and against the teleological argument in his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

In fact, our modern idea of the theory is mostly attributed to John Locke's expression of the idea in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding in the 17th century.

The rules of courtly love were codified by the late 12th century in Andreas Capellanus ' highly influential work De Amore (" Concerning Love ").

Concerning the late 8th century Helanshan Buddhism, little can be said: the doctrines of the lu （ 律 ） school and the teaching of Sichuan Chan of Rev.

Lucian of Samosata in Syria ( 2nd century AD ) in De Dea Syria ( Concerning the Syrian Goddess ) wrote of the Syrian temples he had visited:

In the 17th, century the Dutch anatomist Regnier de Graaf wrote an influential treatise on the reproductive organs Concerning the Generative Organs of Women which is much cited in the literature on this topic.

Concerning the Bogomils, something can be gathered from the information collected by Euthymius Zigabenus in the 12th century, and from the polemic Against the Newly-Appeared Heresy of the Bogomils written in Slavonic by Cosmas the Priest, a 10th century Bulgarian official.

Thus, early knowledge of lenses and the availability of lenses for spectacles from the 13th century onwards through the 16th century means that it was possible for many individuals to discover the principles of a telescope using a combination of concave or concave and convex lenses ; in the 13th century, Robert Grosseteste wrote several scientific treatises between 1230 and 1235, including De Iride ( Concerning the Rainbow ), in which he said:

Around the late first century BC, Arius Didymus wrote in Concerning the Opinions of Plato:

Concerning the life of Persian Jews in the middle of the 19th century, a contemporary author wrote: ... they are obliged to live in a separate part of town ... for they are considered as unclean creatures ...

* The Book of Chivalry and Questions Concerning the Joust, Tournaments and War by Geoffroi de Charny, 14th century

Part 6: Tsarist Politics Concerning the Jews in the Second Quarter of the 19th century )

The traditions of ancient skepticism found a new reception in the early modern era climaxing in the 17th century, especially under the influence of the Empiricists ( especially David Hume – see An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding – and the following rise of empirical science ) in the discussion of historical doubt: Pyrrhonismus historicus and Fides historica: the " faith " in recorded history.

A 17th century Latin translation Philosophus Autodidactus ( published by Edward Pococke ) of the Arabic philosophical novel Hayy ibn Yaqzan by the 12th century Andalusian-Islamic philosopher and novelist Ibn Tufail ( known as " Abubacer " or " Ebn Tophail " in the West ) had an influence on John Locke's formulation of tabula rasa in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding.

An Experimental Enquiry Concerning the Source of the Heat which is Excited by Friction, ( 1798 ), Philosophical Transaction of the Royal Society p. 102 is a scientific paper by Benjamin Thompson, Count Rumford that provided a substantial challenge to established theories of heat and began the 19th century revolution in thermodynamics.

Cicero's De Divinatione ( Latin, " Concerning Divination ") is a philosophical treatise in two books written in 44 BC.

Athanasius ' letters include one " Letter Concerning the Decrees of the Council of Nicaea " ( De Decretis ), which is an account of the proceedings of that council, and another letter in the year 367 which was the first known listing of the New Testament including all those books now accepted everywhere as the New Testament.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

At University of Michigan, Dewey published his first two books, Psychology ( 1887 ), and Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding ( 1888 ), both of which expressed Dewey's early commitment to British neo-Hegelianism.

Albert Einstein's mathematical description of how the photoelectric effect was caused by absorption of quanta of light ( now called photons ), was in one of his 1905 papers, named " On a Heuristic Viewpoint Concerning the Production and Transformation of Light ".

As he stated in Concerning the Spiritual In Art ( see below ), Kandinsky felt that an authentic artist creating art from " an internal necessity " inhabits the tip of an upward-moving pyramid.

* Caelius Aurelianus, Roman physician, is practising his work " De morbis acutis et chronicis " ( Concerning Acute and Chronic Illness ), a guide to acute and chronic diseases.

Heidegger's later works include Vom Wesen der Wahrheit (" On the Essence of Truth ", 1930 ), Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (" The Origin of the Work of Art ", 1935 ), Einführung in die Metaphysik (" Introduction to Metaphysics ", 1935 ), Bauen Wohnen Denken (" Building Dwelling Thinking ", 1951 ), and Die Frage nach der Technik (" The Question Concerning Technology ", 1954 ) and Was heisst Denken?

In his Inquiry Concerning Virtue ( 1699 ), Shaftesbury had postulated that the moral sense in humans is natural and innate and based on feelings rather than resulting from the indoctrination of a particular religion.

In his pamphlet Remarks Concerning the Savages of North America ( 1784 ), Franklin deplored the use of the term " savages " for native Americans: “ Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility ; they think the same of theirs ”.

A more lasting work was his Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge ( 1919 ), a pioneering attempt to synthesize the philosophical underpinnings of physics.

Concerning this region, Huntington departs from Kitsikis contending that a civilizational fault line exists between the two dominant yet differing religions ( Orthodox Christianity and Sunni Islam ), hence a dynamic of external conflict.

Other possible sources are the anonymous play King Leir ( published in 1605 ); A Mirror for Magistrates ( 1574 ), by John Higgins ; The Malcontent ( 1604 ), by John Marston ; The London Prodigal ( 1605 ); Arcadia ( 1580 – 1590 ), by Sir Philip Sidney, from which Shakespeare took the main outline of the Gloucester subplot ; Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John Florio in 1603 ; An Historical Description of Iland of Britaine, by William Harrison ; Remaines Concerning Britaine, by William Camden ( 1606 ); Albion's England, by William Warner, ( 1589 ); and A Declaration of egregious Popish Impostures, by Samuel Harsnett ( 1603 ), which provided some of the language used by Edgar while he feigns madness.

Geble Pedersson ( c. 1490 — 1557 ) was the first Lutheran Bishop of Bergen and a man of broad humanistic views ; his adopted son, Absalon Pederssøn Beyer ( 1528 — 1575 ), followed in his footsteps as a humanist and a nationalist, writing an important historical work, Concerning the Kingdom of Norway ( 1567 ).

Concerning this, the most known cases are those of the so-called " biscione ", a development in the shape of a long snake, situated on the hills of the populous district of Marassi, and the one of the group of houses known as " Le Lavatrici " ( the washing machines ), in the district of Pra '.

* Theophrastus, ( 1916 ), Enquiry into Plants: Books 6-9 ; Treatise on Odours ; Concerning Weather Signs.

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.

For some time the brook was officially known as Morrissey Brook ( 9 letters ), but an official name change was put into Public Act 01-194, " An Act Concerning Certain Real Property Transactions ," which was approved July 11, 2001.

The country also is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Kiribati is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Concerning the social and development indicators, Thailand is recognized by the World Bank as “ one of the great development success stories ”.

In 1528, More produced another religious polemic, A Dialogue Concerning Heresies that asserted that the Catholic Church was the one true church, whose authority had been established by Christ and the Apostles, and that its traditions and practices were valid.

" Concerning the singer's second set in the show, the author adds that there were " Elvis, Scotty Moore on guitar, Bill Black on stand-up bass, D. J. Fontana on drums, three Jordanaires on their feet, one at a piano.

Concerning volume one of the book, The Sunday Times reviewer Oscar Turnill wrote that " Fleming was right in judging the children's market ripe for the ... cliff hanger " and praised his " avuncular and knowledgeable storytelling ", which was matched by Burningham's illustrations.

Through these, as through means, he gives the Holy Spirit who produces faith, where and when he wills, in those who hear the gospel ... 14: Concerning church government it is taught that no one should publicly teach, preach, or administer the sacraments without a proper call.

Concerning the socio-cultural dimension ( nationality, culture and migration ), a far-right position could be the view that certain ethnic, racial or religious groups should stay separate, and that the interests of one ’ s own group should be prioritised.

* The New Jerusalem and its Heavenly Doctrine According to What Has Been Heard from Heaven With an Introduction Concerning The New Heaven and the New Earth ( Swedenbog Society 1911 ; Swedenborg Foundation 1951 ) This book is one of the Writings but is included in the present section because it provides an extremely compact summary of the Writings that was written by Swedenborg himself.

In 1693, he and his fellow Keithians published An Exhortation & Caution to Friends Concerning Buying or Keeping of Negroes, one of the earliest printed antislavery tracts in British North America.

The Great Qing Code includes one statute titled " Prohibitions Concerning Sorcerers and Sorceresses " ( 禁止師巫邪術 ).

Concerning one of these, proportion in quantity or number, Hume argues that our reasoning about proportion in quantity, as represented by geometry, can never achieve " perfect precision and exactness ", since its principles are derived from sense-appearance.

According to John Roy Lynch ( R-MS, 1873 – 76, 1881 – 82 ), one of the twenty-two African Americans elected to Congress from the South during Reconstruction, in his book Facts Concerning Reconstruction:

Tuvalu is one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

Tonga is, however, notably not one of the eight signatories of the Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation In The Management Of Fisheries Of Common Interest which collectively controls 25-30 % of the world's tuna supply and approximately 60 % of the western and central Pacific tuna supply.

However, Much Ado about Nothing ; or, A Plain Refutation of All that Has Been Written or Said Concerning the Rabbit-Woman of Godalming ( 1727 ) is one of the more cutting satires on Toft.

John Locke's chapter XXVII " On Identity and Diversity " in An Essay Concerning Human Understanding ( 1689 ) has been said to be one of the first modern conceptualizations of consciousness as the repeated self-identification of oneself, through which moral responsibility could be attributed to the subject — and therefore punishment and guiltiness justified, as critics such as Nietzsche would point out, affirming "... the psychology of conscience is not ' the voice of God in man '; it is the instinct of cruelty ... expressed, for the first time, as one of the oldest and most indispensable elements in the foundation of culture.

* Giovanni Ceva publishes De Re Nummeraria ( Concerning Money Matters ), one of the first books on mathematical economics.

" Concerning baptism we confess that all penitent believers, who, through faith, regeneration, and the renewing of the Holy Ghost, are made one with God, and are written in heaven, must, upon such Scriptural confession of faith, and renewing of life, be baptized with water, in the most worthy name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost, according to the command of Christ, and the teaching, example, and practice of the apostles, to the burying of their sins, and thus be incorporated into the communion of the saints ; henceforth to learn to observe all things which the Son of God has taught, left, and commanded His disciples.

He published Cases of Conscience Concerning Evil Spirits Personating Men, Witchcrafts, infallible Proofs of Guilt in such as are accused with that Crime., in which he argued that " It were better that ten suspected witches should escape, than that one innocent person should be condemned ".