Later a group consisting of the three major servants of Dalai Lama, eminent officials and troops will collect the boy and his family and travel to Lhasa, where the boy would be taken, usually to Drepung Monastery to study the Buddhist sutra in preparation for assuming the role of spiritual leader of Tibet.

Faith in Buddhism centers on the understanding that the Buddha is an Awakened being, on his superior role as teacher, in the truth of his Dharma ( spiritual teachings ), and in his Sangha ( community of spiritually developed followers ).

The film focuses on the role played by Emanuel Swedenborg's spiritual theology in her life and how it inspired Keller's triumph over her triple disabilities of blindness, deafness and a severe speech impediment.

The Hasidic concept of a Rebbe also combines their role as a teacher of Judaism and as a charismatic spiritual example.

Only a few souls that reach Arihant status become Thirthankars who take a leadership role in assisting the other souls to move up on the spiritual path.

Gandhi stepped back into a more spiritual role.

Voight followed up this and other performances with a role in the 1986 film, Desert Bloom, and reportedly experienced a " spiritual awakening " toward the end of the decade.

Due to its role as humankind's first tool, certain cultures have attached spiritual and religious significance to the knife.

It also plays an important role in modeling the spiritual journey, where the adept begins in Malkuth, which is the every-day material world of phenomena, with the ultimate goal being at Kether, the sphere of Unity with the All.

To be recognized as the one who performs this function of bridging between the natural world and the spiritual world for the benefit of the community, an individual must be validated in his role by that community.

In 2006, a few top staff in the national denominational offices ( two attorneys named, the Clerk suggested by role in the exposé article cited below ; none of those staff still serve in those offices ) produced documents labelled " Privileged and Confidential Attorney Work Communication " recommending that presbyteries use " spiritual language " in defending property rights and assuming a defensive posture, obligating congregations to file suit.

Most Swazis ascribe a special spiritual role to the Swazi Royal Family.

Spirituality has played a central role in self-help movements such as Alcoholics Anonymous: "... if an alcoholic failed to perfect and enlarge his spiritual life through work and self-sacrifice for others, he could not survive the certain trials and low spots ahead ...."

Ellen White came to occupy a particularly central role ; her many visions and spiritual leadership convinced her fellow Adventists that she possessed the gift of prophecy.

Gutierrez also considered the Church to be the " sacrament of history ", an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, thus pointing to the doctrine of universal salvation as the true means to eternal life, and assigning the Church itself to a somewhat temporal role, namely, liberation.

The Papacy in the Late Middle Ages played a major temporal role in addition to its spiritual role.

Nicholas completely lacked his brothers ' spiritual and intellectual breadth ; he saw his role simply as that of a paternal autocrat ruling his people by whatever means necessary.

It said that the laity has the specific responsibility of pursuing social justice in civil society and that the church's active role in social justice should be to inform the debate, using reason and natural law, and also by providing moral and spiritual formation for those involved in politics.

This unique role often sees the Ecumenical Patriarch referred to as the " spiritual leader " of the Orthodox Church in some sources, though this is not an official title of the patriarch nor is it usually used in scholarly sources on the patriarchate.

As they believed they were descendants of the stars, cosmology had a central role in daily and spiritual life.

The motives behind giving play an important role in developing spiritual qualities.

Messianic Jews believe Jesus ' first role as Messiah was to rescue the world from spiritual bondage, and that he will return again to rescue the world from physical oppression and establish his unending Kingdom — again, a belief that is identical to the normative Christian view of the Messiah.

Consequent discussions of Christian Gnosticism included pre-Christian religious beliefs and spiritual practices argued to be common to early Christianity, Hellenistic Judaism, Greco-Roman mystery religions, Zoroastrianism ( especially Zurvanism ), and Neoplatonism.

This Jewish rabbinical concept of a " higher Gan Eden " is opposed by the Hebrew terms Gehinnom and Sheol, figurative names for the place of spiritual purification for the wicked dead in Judaism, a place envisioned as being at the greatest possible distance from " heaven ".

Although traditional Judaism had adopted some features of Kabbalah, it adapted them to fit its own system: it added to its own ritualism the asceticism of the " practical kabbalists " just across the eastern borders in the ancient Greek and Anatolian Jewish communities under the Ottoman Empire, who saw the essence of earthly existence only in fasting, in penance, and in spiritual sadness.

Judaism teaches that this makes physical the spiritual connection between Pesach and Shavuot.

Modern Judaism and Islam view sexual intercourse between husband and wife as a spiritual and edifying action.

Many UU congregations have study groups that examine the traditions and spiritual practices of Neopaganism, Christianity, Buddhism, Judaism, Islam, Pantheism, and other faiths.

In Hasidic Judaism, generally understood as a branch of Orthodox Judaism, there are dynastic spiritual leaders known as Rebbes, often translated in English as " Grand Rabbi ".

Haredi Judaism is not an institutionally cohesive or homogeneous group, but comprises a diversity of spiritual and cultural orientations, generally divided into a broad range of Hasidic sects, Lithuanian-Yeshivish streams from Eastern Europe, and Oriental Sephardic Haredim.

Some within the Orthodox world advocate that while non-Orthodox forms of Judaism are incorrect, they nonetheless have functional validity and spiritual dignity.

The Jewish Theological Seminary of America ( JTS or JTSA ) is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism, and a major center for academic scholarship in Jewish studies.

His Judaism " tended to be social rather than spiritual.

However, Judaism does not encourage people to seek pleasure for its own sake but rather to do so in a spiritual way.

There are various routes that enable one to embark on a spiritual journey ( i. e. different religion e. g. Christianity, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Eckankar, Judaism, Godianism, Ọdịnalaism and so on ).

By focusing the student on self understanding and introspection, often with profound psychological insight, the spiritual aims of Judaism could be internalised.

As the 19th Century brought upheavals and threats to traditional Judaism, the Mussar teachers saw the benefit of the new spiritual focus in Hasidism, and developed their alternative ethical approach to spirituality.

The appellation “ Baal Shem ” was not unique to Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer ; however, it is Rabbi Yisroel ben Eliezer who is most closely identified as a “ Baal Shem ”, as he was the founder of the spiritual movement of Hasidic Judaism.

He has been referred to as the father of Reform Judaism, though Reform spokesmen have been " resistant to claim him as their spiritual father ".

In 1999, the Central Conference of American Rabbis, the official body of American Reform rabbis, authored " A Statement of Principles for Reform Judaism ", meant to describe and define the spiritual state of modern Reform Judaism.

Convinced of the necessity of a central authority for Judaism, Akiva became a devoted adherent and friend of Gamaliel, who aimed at constituting the patriarch the true spiritual chief of the Jews ( R. H. ii.

Benjamin expressed " My life experience led me to this insight: the Jews represent an elite in the ranks of the spiritually active ... For Judaism is to me in no sense an end in itself, but the most distinguished bearer and representative of the spiritual.