However, Tibetan Buddhism believes that tantric practice makes vegetarianism unnecessary.

( However, according to the Jōgū Shōtoku Hōō Teisetsu, Buddhism was introduced in 538.

However, similar explanations can be claimed for the spread of Islam and Buddhism — yet none of them are historical explanations.

However, the followers of Buddhism usually avoid the term God, for it savors so much of Christianity, whose spirit is not always exactly in accord with the Buddhist interpretation of religious experience.

However, according to Idries Shah, the Sufi philosophy is universal in nature, its roots predating the rise of Islam and the other modern-day religions, save for perhaps Buddhism and Jainism ; likewise, some Muslims consider Sufism outside the sphere of Islam.

However, the kami played a special role in protecting Buddhism and allowing its teachings of compassion to flourish.

However, the attempt did set the stage for the arrival of state Shinto, following the Meiji Restoration ( c. 1868 ), when Shinto and Buddhism were separated ( shinbutsu bunri ).

However, Buddhism doesn't focus on materialism.

However, the differences between the Sanskrit and Chinese terminology lead to some initial misunderstandings and the eventual development of East Asian Buddhism as a distinct entity.

However, each branch of Mahayana Buddhism selects which sutra to follow, and some branches, including the majority of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhists, do eat meat, while many Chinese Buddhist branches do not.

However, Buddhism would later be persecuted by the state and decline in influence.

However another reason for why this may be is that, in Manichaeism, the religions of Zoroastrianism, Christianity and Buddhism were in fact deviations of the true religion that Mani taught and in a way they were the same religion, hence making it easier to identify the cosmological figures of Mani with the cosmological figures of Zoroastrianism.

However, there is no formal God in Buddhism, although Buddhism does not specifically oppose monotheism.

However, tension soon arose as the Tendai community began taking steps to suppress both Zen and Jōdo Shinshū, the new forms of Buddhism in Japan.

However, several vassals of the Kara-Khitan practiced Nestorian Christianity, which may have contributed to the legend, as well as the possibility that the Europeans, who were unfamiliar with the concept of Buddhism, assumed that the leader must have been Christian.

However, followers of Nichiren Buddhism consider Myōhō Renge Kyō to be the name of the ultimate law permeating the universe, and the human being is at one, fundamentally with this Law and can manifest realization, or Buddha Wisdom ( attain Buddhahood ), through Buddhist Practice.

However, in Buddhism, Jainism, and some forms of Hinduism, the Sacred lies outside the flux of the material world ( called maya, or " illusion "), and one can only reach it by escaping from the cycles of time.

However, other scholars do not accept the tradition that separates Bon from Buddhism ; Christopher Beckwith calls Bon " one of the two types of Tibetan Buddhism " and writes that " despite continuing popular belief in the existence of a non-Buddhist religion known as Bon during the Tibetan Empire period, there is not a shred of evidence to support the idea ...

However, Tibetans still differentiate between Bon and Buddhism, referring to members of the Nyingma, Shakya, Kagyu and Gelug schools as nangpa, meaning " insiders ," but to practitioners of Bon as " Bonpo ," or even chipa (" outsiders ").

However, Buddhism denies the existence of a permanent or static entity that remains constant behind the changing bodily and non-bodily components of a living being.

" However, Butterfield also notes that " This personal secrecy is common with gurus, especially in Vajrayana Buddhism ," and acknowledges that Trungpa's organization is anything but a cult: " a mere cult leaves you disgusted and disillusioned, wondering how you could have been a fool.

However, it has not been widely confirmed that these missionaries arrived in China or that they were responsible for establishing the teachings of Buddhism there.

However, it was not of innocence in general that I was speaking, but of perhaps the frailest and surely the least important side of it which is innocence in romantic love.

However, in this case as elsewhere it was necessary to arrive at a single standard to be applied to all situations, representing an averaging of conditions, and thus to fix particular points in time which would be considered the dividing points between daytime and nighttime conditions.

However, the nonspecific staining by the Af in tumor sections was considered bright enough to be confused with the staining of small amounts of WTV antigen.

However, all admitted that the `` hindsight '' was not altogether lost.

However, she was able to relax and yield to the moment.

However, in this case the district manager was led to see the errors of his ways.

However, there was no real question of the justice of creating a strong Poland, both industrially and agriculturally, and one unplagued by large minorities of Germans or Russians.

However, the sovereign was not Hobbes' absolute monarch but rather the parliamentary sovereign of Austin.

However, a similar privilege was not specifically provided in section 168 for a person acquiring emergency facilities.

However, the Attorney General of California, at the request of the Secretary of Labor, sought to have the jurisdiction over the issue removed to the Federal District Court, on grounds that it was predominantly a Federal issue since the validity of the Secretary's Regulation was being challenged.

However, the Federal Court held that since the State had accepted the provisions of the Wagner-Peyser Act into its own Code, and presumably therefore also the regulations, it was now a State matter.

However nothing on four legs was supposed to be faster than a lion over a short distance, unless it was a cheetah.

However, it was virtually impossible to screen the mob outside, even if Bonner had manpower available for the purpose.

However likely it was, Pauling said, he couldn't limit himself to it.

However, Haney knew it was not a dream.

However, the confession, which was the only evidence against him, was retracted before the trial.

However, compared with March 1960 new car sales of 4,441, this March was off 23 per cent.

( However, there is little evidence that the late Lumumba was a Communist.

However, lacking requested reinforcements from McClellan, now commanding the Army of the Potomac, Pope was soundly defeated at the Second Battle of Bull Run in the summer of 1862, forcing the Army of the Potomac to defend Washington for a second time.

However Copperhead rhetoric argued that emancipation was a stumbling block to peace and reunification.

However, Plato reports that syntax was devised before him, by Prodicus of Ceos, who was concerned by the correct use of words.