The Ch'an ( Zen ) sect may have derived its metaphysic from Mahayana, but its psychology was pure early Taoist.

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

The Sadducees were an ancient Jewish sect that generally believed that there was a God but no afterlife.

It was used as a magical formula by the Gnostics of the sect of Basilides in invoking the aid of beneficent spirits against disease and misfortune.

At the beginning, it was considered a sort of Taoist sect, and there was even a theory about Laozi, founder of Taoism, who went to India and taught his philosophy to Buddha.

But probably the most influential and original of these schools was the Chan sect, which had an even stronger impact in Japan as the Zen sect.

In the beginning of Christendom, early Christianity was a religion spread in the Greek / Roman world and beyond as a 1st century Jewish sect, which historians refer to as Jewish Christianity.

The Yihewani ( Ikhwan al Muslimun a. k. a. Muslim brotherhood ) was the predominant Muslim sect backed by the Chiang government during Chiang's regime.

Among the Children of God, the judge argued, Flirty Fishing was not understood as prostitution but " as a personal contribution to the humanitarian aims that the sect always claimed to pursue ".

After several decades of harassment and re-proselytising, and perhaps even more importantly, the systematic destruction of their religious texts, the sect was exhausted and could find no more adepts.

In 1948, Eisenhower said he was " one of the most deeply religious men I know " though unattached to any " sect or organization ".

The Albigensians, more commonly known as the Cathars, were a heretical gnostic sect, holding that matter was evil and only spirit was good ; this was a fundamental challenge to the notion of incarnation, central to Roman Catholic theology.

King Amanullah was so impressed with the social progress of Europe that he tried to implement them right away, this met with heavy resistance from the conservative sect and eventually lead to his demise.

While the comrades from both the and sympathised, a promotional brochure was produced for the project, which reads as a pamphlet for a new esoteric sect.

Vieira was a candidate for one sect of the PAIGC.

Galen argued that monkey anatomy was close enough to humans for physicians to learn anatomy with monkey dissections and then make observations of similar structures in the wounds of their patients, rather than trying to learn anatomy only from wounds in human patients, as would be done by students trained by the Empiricist medical sect would.

Therefore Mahāyāna was never a separate rival sect of the early schools.

Johann Georg Rapp ( November 1, 1757 – August 7, 1847 ), also known as George Rapp, was the founder of the religious sect called Harmonists, Harmonites, Rappites, or the Harmony Society.

The Shakers is a religious sect founded in eighteenth-century England upon the teachings of Ann Lee.

It was followed closely in popularity by the Komeito ( Clean Government Party ), founded in 1964 as the political arm of the Soka Gakkai ( Value Creation Society ), until 1991 a lay organization affiliated with the Nichiren Shoshu Buddhist sect.

They appear to have been originally founded by some soldiers from the Second Crusade, who, on their way back, were converted by a Bulgarian sect, the Bogomils.

The Church of the Guanche People is a pagan sect founded in 2001 in the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna ( Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain ).

The Bible Christian Church was a Christian vegetarian sect founded by William Cowherd in 1809.

* The Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan, who founded the Pure Land Buddhism sect and the monastery on Mount Lushan, writes the book On Why Monks Do Not Bow Down Before Kings in this year.

According to tradition, he founded the Nyingmapa sect — also known as the " old sect " or Red Hat sect — of Mahayana Buddhism, which became for a time the dominant religion of Bhutan.

When he later founded the Japanese Tendai sect, esoteric practices were integrated with the larger Tendai teachings, but Tendai is not an exclusively esoteric sect.

The University of La Verne was founded in 1891 as Lordsburg College by members of the Church of the Brethren, a German Christian sect originating from the Schwarzenau Brethren.

* Shiloh, the informal name of " The Kingdom ", a Christian sect founded by Frank Sandford

Colorado City, formerly known as Short Creek ( or the Short Creek Community ), was founded in 1913 by members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints ( FLDS ), a breakaway sect of the Salt Lake City-based The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

The last resident, Sister Ethel Hudson, died in 1992, and the site is now a museum, founded in 1969, to preserve the heritage of the utopian sect.

Kavadh I gave his support to the communistic sect founded by Mazdak, son of Bamdad, who demanded that the rich should divide their wives and their wealth with the poor.

Bogomilism was a Gnostic religiopolitical sect founded in the First Bulgarian Empire by the priest Bogomil during the reign of Tsar Petar I in the 10th century.

The Japanese Zen sect known as the Rinzai school is a branch of the lineage Linji founded.

The largest new religion is Sōka Gakkai, a Buddhist sect founded in 1930, which has about 10 million members in Japan.

In Senegal, the Baye Fall, followers of the Mouride movement, a sect of Islam indigenous to the country which was founded in 1887 by Shaykh Aamadu Bàmba Mbàkke, are famous for growing locks and wearing multi-colored gowns.

Today the largest form of Buddhism among Japanese people is the Jōdo Shinshū sect founded by Shinran.

The Gelug or Gelug-pa ( or dGe Lugs Pa, dge-lugs-pa, or Dgelugspa ), also known as the Yellow Hat sect, is a school of Buddhism founded by Je Tsongkhapa ( 1357 – 1419 ), a philosopher and Tibetan religious leader.

During this time, a number of monks who had left the Tendai sect founded separate Buddhist sects of their own, including

Allegedly the oldest Buddhist sect in Tibet, founded by Padmasambhava during the 8th century, it emphasizes mysticism and local deities shared by the pre-Buddhist Bon religion, which has shamanic elements.

In the late 9th century, Abu-Imran Musa al-Za ' farani ( later known as Abu-Imran al-Tiflisi ) founded a Jewish Karai sect called the Tiflis Sect (" Tiflisites "), which lasted for more than 300 years.