What is clear is that formally, there is mostly peaceful living side by side, with strong inter-dialogue at many levels to reconcile past differences between the two groups, and many Christians emphasize common historical heritage and religious continuity with the ancient spiritual lineage of the Jews.

The line of Dalai Lamas began as a lineage of spiritual teachers ; the 5th Dalai Lama assumed political authority over Tibet.

This typically entails the sincere avowal of a new belief system, but may also present itself in other ways, such as adoption into an identity group or spiritual lineage.

The Khalkha Jebtsundamba Khutuktus (, Javzandamba Khutagt ; Tibetan: ར ྗེ་ བཙ ུ ན ་ དམ ་ པ ་ Jebtsundamba ; literally, " Holy Venerable Lord ") are the spiritual heads of the Gelug lineage of Tibetan Buddhism in Mongolia.

The traditional silsila ( spiritual lineage ) of the Chishti order is as follows:

" It has also been criticised, most notably for lacking " spiritual lineage " and over claims of sexual exploitation and misogyny during the 1970s and 1980s.

According to this viewpoint, the community thus lacks spiritual lineage, which some Buddhists believe to be important.

Rabbi Nachman always maintained that his high spiritual level was due to his own efforts and not to his famous lineage or any other circumstances of his birth.

Allah said about the son of Noah who cut the spiritual bondage with his father, " He is not out of your lineage ; if he was out of your lineage, I would have ( saved ) and granted him salvation.

In other words, Bede considered himself to stand in the spiritual lineage of Chad and had gathered information from at least one who knew him personally.

The tulku incarnation lineage should not be confused with the lineage of Buddhist masters and their disciples, which is concerned with the oral or written transmission of particular Buddhist teachings and spiritual practice from generation to generation.

When Sengye Namgyal ascended the royal throne of Ladakh, he petitioned Drukpa Paksam Wangpo to send Tagtshang Repa to Ladakh to give spiritual guidance to the royal court and propagate the teachings of the Drukpa lineage in Ladakh.

" However, beyond a reference of Tansen's name in a list of his disciples Miyan Tansen's name is not found among the names of the Mureeds ( Fans ) of the Shuttari Tariqat-a Sufi spiritual lineage founded by Shaykh Muhammad Ghaus of Gwalior.

The Naqshbandi order is the only Sufi order that claims to trace its direct spiritual lineage / chain ( silsilah ) to the Islamic prophet Muhammad, through Abu Bakr, the first caliph and Muhammad's companion.

It is considered that the transmission of spiritual lineage or silsilah, is directly from one Sheikh to another, at or after the time of death or burial.

The Naqshbandia Owaisiah Order has a unique spiritual lineage following Abu Bakr.

Although traditions may vary slightly between clans, they share a common sense of identify and traits such as living in distinctive mud defensive compounds, using poisoned bows and arrows to fend off attackers, a sharing of initiation rites and animist beliefs that vigorously pay reverence to the spiritual world, families that are often determined by female lineage, and their craftsmenship of wooden statues which are often worshipped.

However, the Sultan of Sokoto remained an important spiritual and religious position for the Muslims of the region and lineage connection to dan Fodio remains.

His life of freedom demonstrated genuine great accomplishment, and he exerted a great spiritual influence on the precious doctrine of the practice lineage.

It was Gampopa who became Milarepa's spiritual successor, continued his lineage, and became one of the main lineage masters in Milarepa's tradition.

Many of the Turkmen who are revered for their spiritual powers trace their lineage to an övlat, and it is not uncommon, especially in rural areas, for such individuals to be present at life-cycle and other communal celebrations.

Silsila Azeemia strives to " promote the teachings of the Holy Prophet so that our soul may find happiness and peace, and fulfill the purpose of our creation, which is to experience, and understand the ultimate reality by gaining spiritual knowledge of the highest form.

His fellow students — there were 38 in all — included young Samuel I. Hayakawa ( later to become a Republican member of the U. S. Senate ), Ralph Moriarty deBit ( later to become the spiritual teacher Vitvan ) and Wendell Johnson ( founder of the Monster Study ).

In The Concept of Anxiety ( also known as The Concept of Dread, depending on the translation ), Kierkegaard used the word Angest ( in common Danish, angst, meaning " dread " or " anxiety ") to describe a profound and deep-seated spiritual condition of insecurity and fear in the free human being.

The theologian Paul Tillich characterized existential anxiety as " the state in which a being is aware of its possible nonbeing " and he listed three categories for the nonbeing and resulting anxiety: ontic ( fate and death ), moral ( guilt and condemnation ), and spiritual ( emptiness and meaninglessness ).

Sometimes the monks were directly subject to the lay abbot ; sometimes he appointed a substitute to perform the spiritual functions, known usually as dean ( decanus ), but also as abbot ( abbas legitimas, monasticus, regularis ).

One of the main differences is that while animists believe everything to be spiritual in nature, they do not necessarily see the spiritual nature of everything in existence as being united ( monism ), the way pantheists do.

It has also been suggested that the name might be related to the ribat of Waggag ibn Zallu in the village of Aglu ( near present-day Tiznit ), where the future Almoravid spiritual leader Abdallah ibn Yasin got his initial training.

When the Western Roman Empire was starting to disintegrate, Augustine developed the concept of the Catholic Church as a spiritual City of God ( in a book of the same name ), distinct from the material Earthly City.

According to Kapila Vatsyayan, " Classical Indian architecture, sculpture, painting, literature ( kāvya ), music, and dancing evolved their own rules conditioned by their respective media, but they shared with one another not only the underlying spiritual beliefs of the Indian religio-philosophic mind, but also the procedures by which the relationships of the symbol and the spiritual states were worked out in detail.

He suggested that a combination of spiritual exercises ( for example, concentrating on an object such as a seed ), moral development ( control of thought, feelings and will combined with openness, tolerance and flexibility ) and familiarity with other spiritual researchers ' results would best further an individual's spiritual development.

His primary interest was in applying the methodology of science to realms of inner experience and the spiritual worlds ( Steiner's appreciation that the essence of science is its method of inquiry is unusual among esotericists ), and Steiner called anthroposophy Geisteswissenschaft ( lit.

: Science of the mind, or cultural or spiritual science ), a term generally used in German to refer to the humanities and social sciences ; in fact, the term " science " is used more broadly in Europe as a general term that refers to any exact knowledge.

Deeply involved in the future of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, Steinsaltz serves as the region's Duchovny Ravin ( Spiritual Rabbi ), a historic Russian title which indicates that he is the spiritual mentor of Russian Jewry.

The bishop does not deliver sermons at every service ( generally asking members to do so ), but is expected to be a spiritual guide for his congregation.

The obscure and extravagant imagery has led to a wide variety of interpretations: historicist interpretations see in Revelation a broad view of history ; preterist interpretations treat Revelation as mostly referring to the events of the apostolic era ( 1st century ), or -- at the latest -- the fall of the Roman Empire ; futurists believe that Revelation describes future events ; and idealist or symbolic interpretations consider that Revelation does not refer to actual people or events, but is an allegory of the spiritual path and the ongoing struggle between good and evil.

Just as the physical bodies of people are changed into spiritual bodies in the resurrection ( see above ), so Isaiah implies that animals will undergo a transformation which enables them to live in peace with human beings and with each other.

In Hinduism, Vayu ( Sanskrit व ा य ु ), also known as Vāta व ा त, Pavana पवन ( meaning the Purifier ), or Prāna, is a primary deity, who is the father of Bhima and the spiritual father of Lord Hanuman.

She sent her students a definition of the Trinity ( circa 1898 ), which read in part: " Jesus in the flesh was the prophet or wayshower to Life, Truth, and Love, and out of the flesh Jesus was the Christ, the spiritual idea, or image and likeness of God.

There are a number of subcategories of modern deism, including monodeism ( this being the default standard concept of deism ), polydeism, pandeism, panendeism, spiritual deism, process deism, Christian deism, scientific deism, and humanistic deism.

The Valentinian theory elaborates that from Achamoth ( he káta sophía or lower wisdom ) three kinds of substance take their origin, the spiritual ( pneumatikoí ), the animal ( psychikoí ) and the material ( hylikoí ).