According to the Zohar, a foundational text for kabbalistic thought, Torah study can proceed along four levels of interpretation ( exegesis ).

In the foundational text of Taoism, the Tao Te Ching, Laozi explains that Tao is not a ' name ' for a ' thing ' but the underlying natural order of the universe whose ultimate essence is difficult to circumscribe.

In Zhuan Falun ( 轉法輪 ), the foundational text published in 1995, Li Hongzhi writes " It doesn't matter how mankind's moral standard changes … The nature of the cosmos doesn't change, and it is the only standard for determining who's good and who's bad.

* Bārhaspatya-sūtras, the foundational text of the Cārvāka school of philosophy.

Its foundational text is the Charter of the New Urbanism, which says:

Liber AL vel Legis, also known as The Book of the Law, is the foundational text for Thelema.

( Considered the definitive treatment of Courbet's politics and painting in 1848, and a foundational text of Marxist art history ).

T. S. Eliot's " The Waste Land " is a foundational text of modernism, representing the moment at which Imagism moves into modernism proper.

Dr. von Gräfe ’ s protégé, the medical and surgical polymath Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach ( 1794 – 1847 ), who was among the first surgeons to anaesthetize the patient before performing the nose surgery, published Die Operative Chirurgie ( Operative Surgery, 1845 ), which became a foundational medical and plastic surgical text.

The foundational text for the Mīmāṃsā school is the Purva Mīmāṃsā Sutras of Jaimini ( ca.

The Philokalia is the foundational text on hesychasm (" quietness "), an inner spiritual tradition with a long history dating back to the Desert Fathers.

His 1908 book on the subject, The Intermediate Sex, would become a foundational text of the LGBT movements of the 20th century.

Second, eusociality no longer seems to be confined to the hymenopterans ; increasing numbers of highly social taxa have been found in the years since Wilson's foundational text on sociobiology was published in 1975, including a variety of insect species, as well as a rodent species ( the naked mole rat ).

This article, written in French by Angkor-scholar Coedes, gives the original text of the foundational stele at Ta Prohm, as well as a French translation of the text.

The classical Arabic poetry and the text of the Qur ' an are two resources which can be used as foundational reference in ascertaining the meaning and signification of the remaining literal and figurative diction of the Qur ' an and its style of expression.

The late French philosopher, Jean Baudrillard, makes mention of the film as an example of a new genre of " retro cinema " in his essay on history in the now foundational text, Simulacra and Simulation ( 1981 ):

The best known example is the Mahā-vairocanābhisambodhi Tantra, also known as the Mahavairocana Sutra, which became a foundational text for the Shingon School of Japan.

the 3rd century BC, the text contains about 3, 000 sutras and is the foundational text of the Mimamsa school.

The Yoga Sūtras of Patañjali are 196 Indian sūtras ( aphorisms ) that constitute the foundational text of Rāja yoga.

He is also known for his book Religion of the Semites, which is considered a foundational text in the comparative study of religion.

The Hidden Book analyses the punctuation patterns, word choice, sentence structure and allusions used in the biblical stories ; and reconstructs what Friedman says is the original, foundational text at the heart of the Bible.

George Warnock's Feast of Tabernacles outlined some of these emphases, and has been considered a primary foundational text for the movement.

This work was revisited by an imperial commission during the 11th century, and the result is our best extant representation of the foundational roots of traditional Chinese medicine.

Along with the Chinese intellectual tradition which was prevalent during his youth, it is clear that Mao's personal philosophy, his idealism and populist leanings, were foundational to the formation and profile of Maoism.

The Suśruta Saṃhitā and the Charaka Saṃhitā, encyclopedias of medicine compiled from various sources from the mid-first millennium BCE to about 500 CE, are among the foundational works of Ayurveda.

* ( 980-1037 )-Avicenna, a physician, writes The Canon of Medicine one of the foundational manuals in the history of modern medicine.

Participant observation is one of the foundational methods of social and cultural anthropology.

This notion of sovereignty and freedom is foundational to their understanding of love since open theists believe that love is not genuine unless it is freely chosen.

He is especially known for his foundational work in number theory and algebraic geometry.

His foundational work on algebraic geometry is at a higher level of abstraction than all prior versions.

This first, foundational principle by which congregationalism is guided results in confining it to operate with the consent of each gathering of believers.

While in popular usage the term " myth " is often thought to refer to false or fanciful stories, creation myths are by definition those stories which a culture accepts as both a true and foundational account of their human identity.

' Deconstruction ' is somewhat less negative than the Heideggerian or Nietzschean terms ' destruction ' or ' reversal '; it suggests that certain foundational concepts of metaphysics will never be entirely eliminated ... There is no simple ' overcoming ' of metaphysics or the language of metaphysics.

Evolutionary psychologists suggest that EP is not simply a subdiscipline of psychology but that evolutionary theory can provide a foundational, metatheoretical framework that integrates the entire field of psychology, in the same way it has for biology.

This is the foundational principle of EVM.

At its foundational level, Christian thought holds that "... in Christ, there is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, man nor woman ", defining all as equal in the sight of God.

The understanding that Mark was the first of the synoptic gospels and that it served as a source for Matthew and Luke is foundational to modern critical scholarship.

It is a foundational element of logic and human reasoning.

It is occasionally known as the DoD model due to the foundational influence of the ARPANET in the 1970s ( operated by DARPA, an agency of the United States Department of Defense ).

Category theory, another field within " foundational mathematics ", is rooted on the abstract axiomatization of the definition of a " class of mathematical structures ", referred to as a " category ".

At the core of Merleau-Ponty's philosophy is a sustained argument for the foundational role that perception plays in understanding the world as well as engaging with the world.

Thus, contrary to the first impression its name might convey, and as realized in specific approaches and disciplines ( e. g. Fuzzy Sets and Systems ), intuitionist mathematics is more rigorous than conventionally founded mathematics, where, ironically, the foundational elements which Intuitionism attempts to construct / refute / refound are taken as intuitively given.

Quantum mechanics has superseded classical mechanics at the foundational level and is indispensable for the explanation and prediction of processes at molecular and ( sub ) atomic level.

His classic foundational book on the subject Non-standard Analysis was published in 1966 and is still in print.

Philosopher Robert Nozick argues that Rand's foundational argument in ethics is unsound because she does not explain why someone could not rationally prefer dying and having no values.