During this time, Diệm's sister-in-law, Madame Nhu, a Catholic convert and former Buddhist, the de facto first lady because of Diệm ’ s unmarried status, inflamed the situation by mockingly applauding the suicides, referring to them as “ barbecues ”, stating, “ If the Buddhists want to have another barbecue, I will be glad to supply the gasoline .” The pagoda raids stoked widespread public disquiet in Saigon.

Some of Nichiren's writings, however, are about how other forms of Buddhism are incorrect ,, inviting other Buddhist sects for debate on their differences: “ If you wish to maintain this land in peace and security, it is imperative that you summon the priests of the other schools for a debate in your presence ”.

Buddhist mysticism is also of a different sort from that found in systems revolving around the concept of a " God " or " Self ": If one would characterize the forms of mysticism found in the Pali discourses, it is none of the nature -, God -, or soul-mysticism of F. C.

If a person was to engage in homosexuality, " a person would not be considered as following all the precepts of Buddhist principles.

According to Romila Thapar " If we do not take Hindu theology in account the first historical description of the city dates back recently to the 7th century, when the Chinese pilgrim Xuan Zang observed there were 20 Buddhist temples with 3000 monks at Ayodhya, amongst a large Hindu population.

If we take Buddhist writings as evidence, which describe the mass slaughter of Buddhists by the Brahmin ruler Pushyamitra, then Saharanpur must have been under the Shunga regime, at least during his reign.

If this assessment is correct, a Buddhist monastery was established here around 500.

If he does not go, let two stout monks, in the name of God, explain the matter to him.

If the monks did hide the stone, they hid it well ; no other stone fitting its description has ever been found.

If no scriptorium was available, then “ separate little rooms were assigned to book copying ; they were situated in such a way that each scribe had to himself a window open to the cloister walk .” The separation of these monks from the rest of the cloister indicates just how revered these monks were within their society.

If the man was not interested in joining the regiment, the king resorted to forced recruitment and kidnapping — his agents kidnapped tall priests, monks, innkeepers, etc., from all over Europe.

If among monks or nuns occurs a quarrel or dispute or dissension, the young monk should ask forgiveness of the superior, and the superior of the young monk.

If the deceased is old, a three day funeral ceremony and memorial is conducted, complete with chanting from the monks.

If such details are lacking, the monks whose duty is to locate his reincarnation, resort to a lama-tulku astrologer ( or tsispa ) for directions.

If most ( if not all ) of medieval philosophers were priests and monks, early and late Renaissance philosophers were a more heterogeneous population, including rhetors, magicians and astrologues, early empirical scientist, poets, philologists.

If the incumbent guardian dies without naming a successor, then the monks of the monastery hold an election to select the new guardian.

If they are not happy, you can tell them that the Dalai Lama himself asked that this be done, and it is very urgent ", and " Recently monasteries have fearlessly expelled Shugden monks where needed.

If Ekkehart IV's account, much discussed among scholars, is true, which seems to be confirmed by another monk of St. Gall, Herimannus, the author of the later ( ca 1075 ) life of St Wiborada of St Gall where he cites verse 51 of the Waltharius, the poem was written by Ekkehard, generally distinguished as Ekkehard I, for his master Geraldus in his schooldays, probably therefore not later than 920, since he was probably no longer young when he became deacon ( in charge of ten monks ) in 957.

If the monk breaks any rule here he has to undergo a period of probation or discipline after which, if he shows himself to be repentant, he may be reinstated by a sangha of not less than twenty monks.

# If both sides agree that they are not acting the way monks ought to, they can call a full assembly of the sima and confess their mistakes, and the verdict should be " covering over as with grass.

If you want to see '' --

If we have to we'll take him apart and see what he's made of ''!!

`` If you want to see something, he's back on the other side by the trunk of the car ''.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If you're lyin' out in the hammock at night, and it gets kinda cool -- you know -- you just take these sides with the fringe on -- see -- and wrap 'em right over you.

If any are left, presently, we may expect to see signs specifically prohibiting the feeding of them too.

If this capacity had not failed them, they would see that their enemy has made a disastrous miscalculation.

If you can't see your way clear to have summer cooling included when building, by all means make provision for its easy adding later.

If the trend of general business activity follows the pattern suggested here, we are likely to see additional steps by the Federal Reserve authorities to ease the availability of credit.

If the patient can perceive figure kinesthetically when he cannot perceive it visually, then, it would seem, the sense of touch has immediate contact with the spatial aspects of things in independence of visual representations, at least in regard to two dimensions, and, as we shall see, even this much spatial awareness on the part of unaided touch is denied by the authors.

If the one- or two-digit address of an index word or electronic switch is used or is included in the operand of an XRESERVE or SRESERVE statement ( see page 99 ), the corresponding index word or electronic switch is reserved.

If the symbolic name or actual address of an index word or electronic switch appears or is included in the operand of an XRELEASE or SRELEASE statement ( see page 101 ), the specified index word or electronic switch will again be made available, regardless of the method by which it was reserved.

If the platform is not properly headed, the X-gyro input axis will see a component of the earth's rotation.

If you look at a reading meant for someone else, you will probably see that many of the items could be considered as applicable to you, even when you were not in the picture at all!!

If pressed by the sitter for more detail, she may be able to bring the picture more into focus and see more sharply, almost as if she were physically going closer.

If you look through the keyhole, you will see an artistically landscaped garden with the white dome of St. Peter's framed in a long avenue of cropped laurel trees.

If that picture gets around and I find out you had anything to do with it, I'm going to send a couple of my boys around to see you ''.

On my way out I told her, `` If you should eh just happen to see your husband, get him to give himself up.

Chief Moore said, `` If I don't see you when I return, see you for certain at my road block, Inspector ''.

If we look about the world today, we can see clearly that there are two especially significant factors shaping the future of our civilization: science and religion.

If I could put your body in an imaginary atomic press and squeeze you down, squeeze these holes out of you in the way we squeeze the holes out of a sponge, you would get smaller and smaller until finally when the last hole was gone, you would be smaller than the smallest speck of dust that you could see on this piece of paper.

** If S is a set of sentences of first-order logic and B is a consistent subset of S, then B is included in a set that is maximal among consistent subsets of S. The special case where S is the set of all first-order sentences in a given signature is weaker, equivalent to the Boolean prime ideal theorem ; see the section " Weaker forms " below.

** If the set A is infinite, then there exists an injection from the natural numbers N to A ( see Dedekind infinite ).

If one looks at the fields around the Deserted Village and right up the mountain, one can see the tracks in the fields of ' lazy beds ', which is the way crops like potatoes were grown.