In religious terms, the Dalai Lama is believed by his devotees to be the rebirth of a long line of tulkus who are considered to be manifestations of the bodhisattva of compassion, Avalokiteśvara.

This article was first brought to the attention of Ajahn Brahm-the elected head of the Australian Sangha Association-by members of the BSWA's Armadale Meditation Group who felt that the Dalai Lama's comments were not in line with the Buddhist ethos.

The Dalai Lama was out of line when he said ( according to your article in the West, April 15, Page 7 ) " if you are a Buddhist, homosexuality is wrong.

Note that the title " Dalai Lama " was not applied to this line from the beginning: the second emanation was seen simply as the rebirth of Gedun Drub.

" The Dalai Lama replies with the film's final line: " I think that I am a reflection, like the moon on water.

Bono later sent a note to the Dalai Lama declining an invitation to a festival called Oneness, incorporating a line from the song: " One — but not the same ".

Seeing their hesitation, I said, `` Well, until I have permission to enter Germany, or a visa to re-enter France, I shall be obliged to remain here on the line between two countries '', whereupon I moved to the side of the road, parked my backpack against the small guardhouse on the sidewalk, sat down, took out my typewriter, and began typing the above conversation.

An additional line of reasoning in support of particle theory ( and by extension atomic theory ) began in 1827 when botanist Robert Brown used a microscope to look at dust grains floating in water and discovered that they moved about erratically — a phenomenon that became known as " Brownian motion ".

Moody and Sankey began publishing their compositions in 1875, and " Amazing Grace " appeared three times with three different melodies, but they were the first to give it its title ; hymns were typically published using the first line of the lyrics, or the name of the tune such as " New Britain ".

Clustered around the Sobu Main line, what began as a host of electrical stores selling vacuum tubes, radio goods and electrical items to the students, has today come to be known as Electric Town.

As was typical of Caesar he gambled and began discreetly thinning his already depleted ranks of men then repositioned them as a fourth line to support his cavalry against the inevitable assault by the much larger Pompeian cavalry.

In 1997, Power Computing began bundling BeOS ( on a CD for optional installation ) with its line of PowerPC-based Macintosh clones.

When the trumpet signal for the start rang out, Antony's fleet began issuing from the straits, and the ships moved into line and remained quiet.

This line of research began with Werner Heisenberg's matrix mechanics and in a more mathematically developed form with Pascual Jordan around 1933.

It was Compaq's first non-portable computer and began the Compaq Deskpro line of computers.

During November 1999, Compaq began to work with Microsoft to create the first in a line of small-scale, web-based computer systems called MSN Companions.

DAT Automobile Manufacturing began development of a line of 495 cc cars to sell in this new market segment, calling the new small cars " Datson "-meaning " Son of DAT ".

The line was opened by Queen Elizabeth II on 30 July 1987, and passenger services began on 31 August.

In earlier football games ( both professional and collegiate ), the goal post began at the goal line, and was usually an H-shaped bar.

At the end of 1877, the Paris-Rome line, which was about, began operating a duplex Baudot.

" By June 1947, the Central Committee of Yugoslavia began publicly condemning Hoxha, accusing him of talking an individualistic and anti-Marxist line.

According to Pickover, the mathematics behind fractals began to take shape in the 17th century when the mathematician and philosopher Gottfried Leibniz pondered recursive self-similarity ( although he made the mistake of thinking that only the straight line was self-similar in this sense ).

Air forces began to replace or supplemented them with cannons, which fired explosive shells that could blast a hole in an enemy aircraft — rather than relying on kinetic energy from a solid bullet striking a fuel line, control cable, pilot, etc.

At the same time, the White Army began advancing along a line through Vilppula – Kuru – Kyröskoski – Suodenniemi, north and north-west of Tampere.

He was able to line up a couple of potential distributors in Warner Brothers and Universal Pictures International even before the film began production.

His first important commission was for two viaducts for the railway line between Lyons and Bordeaux, and the company also began to undertake work in other countries, including the church of San Marcos in Arica, Chile, which was an all-metal prefabricated building, manufactured in France and shipped to South America in pieces to be assembled on site.

Papias does not identify his Matthew, but by the end of the 2nd century the tradition of Matthew the tax-collector had become widely accepted, and the line " The Gospel According to Matthew " began to be added to manuscripts.

That same year construction of the line began.

From the 1880s several artists began to develop different precepts for the use of colour, pattern, form, and line, derived from the Impressionist example: Vincent van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.

The extended line of research that culminated in Astronomia nova ( A New Astronomy )— including the first two laws of planetary motion — began with the analysis, under Tycho's direction, of Mars ' orbit.

As with Chronicle, The List was compiled during the reign of Alfred the Great, and both the List and the Chronicle are influenced by the desire of their writers to use a single line of descent to trace the lineage of the Kings of Wessex through Cerdic to Gewis, a descendant of Woden and the legendary ancestor of the West Saxons.

The author of the Book of Ezekiel shows himself as Ezekiel, the son of Buzi, 1: 3 born into a priesthood ( Kohen ) lineage of the patrilineal line of Ithamar, and resident of Anathoth.

Historically, the succession to Japan's Chrysanthemum Throne has always passed to descendants in male line from the imperial lineage.

While the divergence point of the mtDNA was unexpectedly deep in time, the full genomic sequence suggested the Denisovans belonged to the same lineage as Neanderthals, with the two diverging shortly after their line split from that giving rise to modern humans.

* Tamora Pierce's Protector of the Small series shows the Conté royal family marrying into an Imperial line based on the Emperors of Japan ; they preserve their claim to divine lineage by adding the "- kami " suffix to their names ( e. g., Princess Shinkokami ).

The Yngling " Fairhair dynasty " lineage introduced in Hversu Noregr byggðist (" How Norway was settled ") and the Orkneyinga and Heimskringla sagas suggests a line of Rollo going back to Fornjót, the primeval " king " who " reigned over " Finland and Kvenland.

From that time on, the Bellanca line was part of a succession of companies that maintained the lineage of the original aircraft produced by Bellanca.

Later, during the Babylonian Exile, the Exilarchs ( officially recognised community leaders ) claimed Davidic lineage, and when the Exile ended, Zerubbabel ( the leader of the first Jews to return to Yehud province ) was also of the Davidic line, as were Shealtiel ( a somewhat mysterious figure ) and Nehemiah ( one of the earliest and most prominent Achamenid-appointed governors of Yehud ).

In the time of Roman rule, all the holders of the office of Nasi ( prince ) after Shemaiah, claimed Davidic lineage, through Hillel, who was rumoured have maternal lineage from the Davidic line.

This word is composed of the two words ōlli, meaning " rubber ", and mecatl, meaning " rope ", so the word means " rubber line or lineage "< ref >< i > Olmecas </ i > ( n. d .).

In Homer's Odyssey, a digression concerning the lineage of Theoclymenus, " a prophet, sprung from Melampus ' line of seers ", sketches the epic narrative concerning Melampus with such brevity that its details must have been familiar to Homer's audience.

" When a woman ’ s brothers are available, a consideration of generational seniority stipulates that the line of brothers be exhausted before the right to inherit lineage property passes down to the next senior genealogical generation of sisters ' sons.

A Reverend Mother has access only to her female lineage in Other Memory ; her male line is unavailable to her, present as a dark void that terrifies her.

Because the human Y chromosome changes relatively slowly over time and is only passed along the direct male line, it may be used to trace paternal lineage.

Many of his disciples believed that he came from the Davidic line tracing its lineage to the royal house of King David, and by extension with the institution of the Jewish Messiah.

According to some accounts, his grandfather was descended from a line of Muslims tracing their lineage back to Persia, while another traces his lineage instead to the area of present-day Afghanistan.

The Edinburgh scholar L. P. Elwell-Sutton, in a 1975 article critical of what he called " pseudo-Sufis " like Gurdjieff and Shah, opined that Graves had been trying to " upgrade " Shah's " rather undistinguished lineage ", and that the reference to Mohammed's senior male line of descent was a " rather unfortunate gaffe ", as Mohammed's sons had all died in infancy.

Born in the Kham region of Tibet in February 1939, Chögyam Trungpa was eleventh in the line of Trungpa tülkus, important figures in the Kagyu lineage, one of the four main schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

The location of the causal factor can be used to classify eosinophilia into two general types: extrinsic, in which the factor lies outside of the eosinophil cell lineage ; and intrinsic eosinophilia, which denotes etiologies within the eosiniphil cell line.

After extinction of the Barclay de Tolly princely line with his son Magnus on 29 October 1871 ( 17 October, Old Style ), Alexander II allowed the field marshal's sister's grandson through female lineage, Alexander von Weymarn, to assume the title of Prince Barclay de Tolly-Weymarn on 12 June 1872 ( 31 May, Old Style )

Societies can also consider descent to be ambilineal ( such as Hawaiian kinship ) where offspring determine their lineage through the matrilineal line or the patrilineal line.