In Sufi-ism which revolves around Aulias ( Saints ), a disciple prays a Sufi-saint at his tomb, until the saint appears in a dream to the disciple and shows him the correct and living guru to go and serve.

His vaguely suggestive style shows the influence of Stéphane Mallarmé, of whom he was an assiduous disciple.

* Theologia dogmatica et moralis secundum ordinem catechismi concilii Tridentini ( 10 volumes, Paris, 1694 ), This is Alexandre's principal contribution to theological literature, in which he clearly shows himself a disciple of the Thomist school.

The great figures of reformist Whiggery were Charles James Fox ( died 1806 ) and his disciple and successor Earl Grey.

Headed by the Sakya Trizin, this tradition was founded by Khon Konchog Gyalpo, a disciple of the great translator Drokmi Lotsawa and traces its lineage to the Indian master Virupa.

Headed by Champollion and assisted by Rosellini his first disciple and great friend, the mission was known as the Franco-Tuscan Expedition, and was made possible by the support of the grand-duke of Tuscany, Leopold II, and the King of France, Charles X.

Hearing this from Abu Bakr, the most senior disciple of Muhammad, Umar then fell down on his knees in great sense of sorrow and acceptance of the reality.

Altan Khan first invited the 3rd Dalai Lama to Mongolia in 1569, but apparently the Dalai Lama refused to go and sent a disciple again, who reported back to the Dalai Lama about the great opportunity to spread Buddhist teachings throughout Mongolia.

It would be unprofitable to go into any lengthened discussion upon this mysterious subject ; and we have great doubts whether the ocular demonstration by the microscope would succeed except in the hands of a disciple of the school.

He also feels that the Soka Gof mentor and disciple, provides members with a great deal of guidance and direction.

Dromtönpa, a Tibetan lay master and the foremost disciple of the great Indian Buddhist Master Atisha ( 982-1054 ), founded it and passed three lineages to his disciples.

' Bhakta Kannappa ' ( great disciple of ' Lord Siva ') with actor ' Krishnam Raju ' who was till then doing villain roles, was a huge hit and gave him stardom.

Though a disciple of Socrates, he wandered very far both in principle and practice from the teaching and example of his great master.

Maghanandi is often called Siddhanta-chakravarti i. e. the great master of the scriptures, Gandaraditya I was his disciple.

Labeled " Fair Warning: For Adult Intellectuals Only ", it featured the publishing debut of Crumb's much-bootlegged " Keep on Truckin '" imagery, an early appearance of unreliable holy man Mr. Natural and his neurotic disciple Flakey Foont, and the first of innumerable self-caricatures ( in which Crumb calls himself " a raving lunatic ", and " one of the world's last great medieval thinkers ").

Had he been given the opportunity of designing some great public building, it is possible that he would have shown himself a true disciple of Chambers ; ( 2 ) but his career as a government architect coincided with the Napoleonic wars, and his premature death deprived him of participation in the metropolitan improvements of the reign of George IV.

Sanjukta Panigrahi, the great exponent of Odissi, was a leading disciple of Guru Kelucharan Mohapatra's and popularized Odissi by performing extensively, both in India and abroad.

The initial spiritual chain or silsila of the Chishti order in India, comprising Moinuddin Chishti, Bakhtiyar Kaki, Baba Farid and Nizamuddin Auliya ( each successive person being the disciple of the previous one ), constitutes the great Sufi saints of Indian history.

Altan Khan first invited Sonam Gyatso to Tumet in 1569, but apparently he refused to go and sent a disciple instead, who reported back to him about the great opportunity to spread Buddhist teachings throughout Mongolia.

He was the disciple of the great Rishi Veda Vyasa, the son of Rishi Parashara.

He had great knowledge of both major schools as a hatano-ryu disciple master.

He was a descendant of the great Kalonymus family of Mainz, and a disciple of Judah ben Samuel of Regensburg ( Judah he-Hasid ), who initiated him into the study of the esoterica, at that time little known in Germany.

The great pagan antagonist of the 3rd century was the neo-Platonic philosopher, Porphyry ; but under Constantine his disciple Iamblichus was the chief restorer and defender of the old gods, and his system of defence is that which we find made the official religion by Julian ( 361 – 3 ).

As the third disciple, even though his fighting skills are not as great as that of Wukong or Bajie, he is still a great warrior protecting Xuanzang and can use his intellect as well as his strength to beat the enemy.

Also of great importance are the writings surrounding the communities founded by Saint Pachomius, the father of cenobiticism, and his disciple Saint Theodore, the founder of the skete form of monasticism.

He was accepted into the studio of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres in 1830, at the age of eleven, becoming the favorite pupil of the great classicist, who came to regard him as his truest disciple.

Due to the Kagyu tradition's particularly strong emphasis on guru devotion and guru yoga, and the personal transmission of esoteric instructions ( dam ngag or man ngag ) from master to disciple, the early Kagyu tradition soon gave rise to a bewildering number of independent sub-schools or sub-sects centered round individual charismatic Kagyu teachers and the hereditary lineages as well as mindstream emanation lineages.

Gahininath, one of the nine Nath gurus, accepted Nivrutti as his disciple and initiated him into the Nath sect, instructing him to propagate devotion to Krishna.

" ( Romans 12: 2 ) Therefore a disciple is not simply an accumulator of information or one who merely changes moral behavior in regard to the teachings of Jesus Christ, but seeks a fundamental shift toward the ethics of Jesus Christ in every way, including complete devotion to God.

Whatever may be the nature of the guru, the disciple gets salvation by dint of his unflinching devotion towards his guru.

Lord Kottureshwara visited a village near Mysore and noticed the devotion of the priest in a temple ( priest's name Karilingeswara ). He requested him to come with him and be his disciple and the priest in the temple.

Paisius's translation of Philokalia was one of the favourite books of Seraphim of Sarov, who received blessing to go to Sarov for spiritual devotion from the Paisius ' disciple Dosifei of Kiev.

Yet the title of Father of monasticism is merited as he was the inspiration for the coming of hundreds of men and women into the depths of the desert, who were then loosely organized into small communities, especially by his disciple, Macarius.

Potter had been a disciple of the land conservation and preservation ideals of her long-time friend and mentor, Canon Hardwicke Rawnsley, the first secretary and founding member of the National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty.

The Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906 gives David Gans, a disciple of the Maharal, as a source for the story, citing his historical work Zemach David, published in 1592.

For instance, the writing style is different, the author for reasons of humility refers to himself instead as " the disciple whom Jesus loved ," while John in Revelations refers to himself as John at least five times.

In 1652, Fox preached for several hours under a walnut tree at Balby, where his disciple Thomas Aldham was instrumental in setting up the first meeting in the Doncaster area.

Irenaeus also writes that " The Elders witness to this, who in Asia conferred with John the Lord's disciple, to the effect that John had delivered these things unto them: for he abode with them until the times of Trajan.

Some scholars have further speculated that Jesus was himself a disciple of John for some period of time, but this view is disputed.

After settling on the name Brian for their new protagonist, one idea considered was that of " the 13th disciple ".

Asbury Theological Seminary Bible scholar Ben Witherington III confirms the New Testament account of Mary Magdalene as historical: " Mary was an important early disciple and witness for Jesus.

" A disciple of Christ is one who, in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help, has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him, becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.

It was unusual for a woman in first-century Judaism to be accepted by a teacher as a disciple.

Buddha and his disciple Ananda are said to have visited the Kathmandu Valley and stayed for some time in Patan.

In Matthew, Joseph was identified as " also a disciple of Jesus ;" in Mark he was identified as " a respected member of the council ( Sanhedrin ) who was also himself looking for the Kingdom of God ;" in Luke he was identified as " a member of the council, good and righteous, who did not consent to their purpose or deed, and who was looking for the Kingdom of God '" and in John he was identified as " a disciple of Jesus.

In the Gospels, Jesus ' disciple Judas Iscariot is infamous for having taken a bribe of thirty coins of silver from religious leaders in Jerusalem to turn Jesus of Nazareth over to soldiers of the High Priest Caiaphas.

The New Testament records that Jesus ' disciple Judas Iscariot, the Roman governor Pontius Pilate along with Roman forces and the leaders and people of Jerusalem were ( to varying degrees ) responsible for the death of Jesus.

As the statement " good works are necessary for salvation " appeared in the Leipzig Interim, its Lutheran opponents attacked in 1551 Georg Major, the friend and disciple of Melanchthon, so Melanchthon dropped the formula altogether, seeing how easily it could be misunderstood.

In this year, he dictated his Testament, a form of spiritual guidance for the future abbots of the Studios monastery, to his disciple Naukratios.

The patron saints for surgeons are Saint Luke the Evangelist the physician and disciple of Christ, Saints Cosmas and Damian ( 3rd century physicians from Syria ), Saint Quentin ( 3rd century saint from France ), Saint Foillan ( 7th century saint from Ireland ), and Saint Roch ( 14th century saint from France ).

And subsequent artistic / cultural movements found him equally amenable to their cause: the Decadents turned him, like themselves, into a disillusioned disciple of Schopenhauer, a foe of Woman and of callow idealism ; the Symbolists saw him as a lonely fellow-sufferer, crucified upon the rood of soulful sensitivity, his only friend the distant moon ; the Modernists converted him into a Whistlerian subject for canvases devoted to form and color and line.

But Carafa was recalled to Rome by the reform-minded Pope Paul III ( 1534 – 49 ), to sit on a committee of reform of the papal court, an appointment that forecast an end to a humanist papacy, and a revival of scholasticism, for Carafa was a thorough disciple of Thomas Aquinas.

Some critics have found Derrida's treatment of this issue surprising, given that, for example, Derrida also spoke out against antisemitism and, in the 1960s, broke with the Heidegger disciple Jean Beaufret over a phrase of Beaufret's that Derrida ( and, after him, Maurice Blanchot ) interpreted as antisemitic.

On 22 May, 1844 Mullá Husayn of Boshruyeh in Khorasan, a prominent disciple of Siyyid Kázim, entered Shiraz following the instruction by his master to search for the promised Qa ' im.