As a counter to any form of " blind faith ", the Buddha's teachings included those included in the Kalama Sutra, exhorting his disciples to investigate any teaching and to live by what is learnt and accepted, rather than believing in something simply because it is taught.

Pistis Sophia presents a long dialog with Jesus in the form of his answers to questions from his disciples.

* The disciples of Jesus form communities after the Diaspora, especially in Damascus and Antioch.

Such Grihastha disciples financially helped the monastic disciples led by Vivekananda to form fellowship at a derelict house at Baranagar on the river Ganges.

Among West Africans, Orunmila is recognized as a primordial Irunmole that was present both at the beginning of Creation and then again amongst them as a priest that taught an advanced form of spiritual knowledge and ethics, during visits to earth in physical form or through his disciples.

George Călinescu who saw in it " an echo of Nae Ionescu's lectures ", traced a parallel with the essays of another of Ionescu's disciples, Emil Cioran, while noting that Cioran's were " of a more exulted tone and written in the aphoristic form of Kierkegaard ".

In its most simple and attractive form — invested with the authority of the reputed holy author — their account of the creation of the world and of man, the origin of sin and redemption, the history of the Cross, and the disputes between body and soul, right and wrong, heaven and hell, were embodied either in " Historiated Bibles " ( Palcyaf ) or in special dialogues held between Christ and his disciples, or between renowned Fathers of the Church who expounded these views in a simple manner adapted to the understanding of the people ( Lucidaria ).

Then Jesus appears " in a different form " to two unnamed disciples.

The bodhisattva Avalokiteśvara ( Guanyin ), on instruction from the Buddha, gives this task to the monk and his three protectors in the form of disciples — namely Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Wujing — together with a dragon prince who acts as Xuanzang's steed, a white horse.

Other disciples of Vaisampayana took the form of partridge birds and consumed the digested knowledge ( a metaphor for knowledge in its simplified form without the complexities of the whole but the simplicity of parts ) because it was knowledge and they were very eager to receive the same.

These were followed by other serials: Meiji Nijūkunen no Haikukai or " The Haiku World of 1896 " where he praised works by disciples Takahama Kyoshi and Kawahigashi Hekigotō, Haijin Buson or " The Haiku Poet Buson " ( 1896-1897 ) expressing Shiki's idea of this 18th-century poet whom Shiki identifies with his school of haiku, and Utayomi ni Atauru Sho or " Letters to a Tanka Poet " ( 1898 ) where he urged reform of the tanka poetry form.

When they asked the Jesuits for permission to form a group of native disciples, they were told they were too " young in faith " for such a group.

In this early period he preaches around Galilee and recruits his first disciples who begin to travel with him and eventually form the core of the early Church.

Unlike Taoism, the religious aspects found in Confucianism ( worship of Confucius and his disciples, worship of Tian, rituals and sacrifices ) never took independent form and have thus remained for centuries part of Shenism.

His doctrine is known to us only in the developed and modified form given to it by his disciples.

Moinuddin Chishti apparently never wrote down his teachings in the form of a book, nor did his immediate disciples, but the central principles that became characteristics of the Chishtī order in India are based on his teachings and practices.

However, Strang managed to win enough disciples to form a viable organization of his own.

It is divided into sixty short paragraphs or a hundred and forty passages, and is in the form of a dialogue between master and disciples.

Fifty days after the Resurrection, on the existing Jewish feast of Pentecost, while the disciples and many other followers of Jesus were gathered together to pray, the Holy Spirit descended upon them in the form of " cloven tongues of fire ", with the sound of a might rushing wind, and they began to speak in languages that they did not know.

" These gatherings serve as the formal meeting place of the Master and his devotees when he is present in physical form, but also, more often, follow the tradition of early Christianity and take place in the homes of disciples or in any convenient location as times of remembrance of the Master and the need for meditation.

The aim of the G12 Vision is to form disciples with a Christ-like character who in turn will ' go and make disciples ' as commanded by Jesus.

These three propositions were further developed by his followers, who maintained that God revealed Himself in a threefold revelation, the first in the Biblical patriarch Abraham, marking the epoch of the Father ; the second in Jesus Christ, who began the epoch of the Son ; and the third in Amalric and his disciples, who inaugurated the era of the Holy Ghost.

The second season had no connecting story arc ; plots varied from Wally finding disciples (" The Shroud of Wally ") to Dilbert being accused of mass murder (" The Trial ").

" The second part presents Jesus in dialogue with his immediate followers and gives an account of his Passion and Crucifixion and of his appearances to the disciples after his Resurrection.

Full preterists argue that a literal reading of Matthew 16: 28 ( where Jesus tells the disciples that some of them would not taste death until they saw him coming in his kingdom ) places the second coming in the first century.

" On the evening of that first day of the week " ( Roman time ), or the evening beginning the second day ( Hebrew time ), the resurrected Jesus appears at a meeting of ten apostles and other disciples ().

James and John first were disciples of Saint John the Baptist, their second cousin.

In the biblical narrative, an angel tells the watching disciples that Jesus ' second coming will take place in the same manner as his ascension.

In the winter of 1683 his disciples gave him a second hut in Edo, but his spirits did not improve.

Two propositions are central to it: first, that St James preached the gospel in Iberia as well as in the Holy Land ; second, that after his martyrdom at the hands of Herod Agrippa I his disciples carried his body by sea to Iberia, where they landed at Padrón on the coast of Galicia, and took it inland for burial at Santiago de Compostela.

Many of his teachings were recorded by his disciples and appeared in anthologies " MaggiD DebaraV le-Ya ' akoV " ( מגיד דבריו ליעקב the last letters of which title spell " Dov "), known also under the title of Likkutei Amarim (" Collected Sayings "), published at Korets in 1780 ( second edition with additions Korets 1784 ), and frequently reprinted ; Likkutim Yekarim (" Precious Collections "), published at Lemberg in 1792 ; Or Torah ( the largest collection ) published in Korets 1804 ; Or Ha ' emet published in Husiatin 1899 ; Kitvei Kodesh ( small collection ) published in Lemberg 1862 ; Shemu ' ah Tovah ( small collection ) published in Warsaw 1938.

The second time, however, he came back as a most famous scholar, escorted by 24, 000 disciples, who reverently followed their beloved master.

Three independent approaches to estimate the dates of the ministry of Jesus ( when he started calling disciples, generally considered to be after his baptism ) and are: first, the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, second: the date of the building of the Jerusalem Temple and third, the date of the death of John the Baptist.

After his involvement with the founding of Taiseki-ji, Nikkō named his disciple Nichimoku ( 1260 – 1333 ) as his successor and retired a few miles away to Omosu, where he founded a seminary and temple, Ikegami Honmon-ji, and concentrated on training disciples until his death in the second lunar month of 1333 at the age of 87.

Among the further details are these: that Scythianus lived " in the time of the Apostles "; that Terebinthus said the name of Buddas had been imposed on him ; that in the mountains he had been brought up by an angel ; that he had been convicted of imposture by a Persian prophet named Parcus, and by Labdacus, son of Mithra ; that in the disputation he taught concerning the sphere, the two luminaries, the transmigration of souls, and the war of the Principia against God ; that " Corbicius " or Corbicus, about the age of sixty, translated the books of Terebinthus ; that he made three chief disciples, Thomas, Addas, and Hermas, of whom he sent the first to Egypt, and the second to Scythia, keeping the third with him ; that the two former returned when he was in prison, and that he sent them to procure for him the books of the Christians, which he then studied.

One of Swami Muktananda's earliest and principal disciples was Malti Shetty, a young woman from Mumbai who accompanied him as his English language interpreter on his second and third World Tours.

After sometime, he left some disciples behind for performing Krishna's worship and undertook his second tour to Badari.

In the biblical narrative, an angel tells the watching disciples that Jesus ' second coming will take place in the same manner as his ascension.

Notable disciples of Swami Vijnanananda include Pravrajika Mokshaprana, second president of Sri Sarada Math, Swami Atmasthananda, fifteenth president of the Ramakrishna Mission, and Swami Swahananda, spiritual leader of the Vedanta Society of Southern California.

The second section describes Jesus ' appearances to his disciples, while the last two verses relate why the author wrote this gospel.

* In the fragment, Papias uses the same words-presbyter ( or elder ) and disciples of the Lord-both in reference to the Apostles and to the second John.

It is commonly agreed that the gem cutter who created the Gemma Augustea was either Dioscurides or one of his disciples, in the second or third decade of the 1st century AD.

* The first involved some followers of Melitius El-Assyuty who drank wine before Communion, claiming that Jesus had given the disciples two cups at the Last Supper and that only for the second did he say " This is My Blood.

The second section deals with Jesus ' first public preaching and the gathering of his first disciples.

The reference has also often been moved from the disciples to Jesus, with him being called the " fisher of men ," and the image of Jesus as a fisherman is second only to that of Jesus as a shepherd.