Some Dianics fall into this category, acknowledging Z. Budapest as a foremother, and do not participate in the initiation / ordination lineage of Dianic Wicca.

Paul Williams has also noted that the Mahāyāna never had nor ever attempted to have a separate Vinaya or ordination lineage from the early Buddhist schools, and therefore each bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī adhering to the Mahāyāna formally belonged to an early school.

This continues today with the Dharmaguptaka ordination lineage in East Asia, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda ordination lineage in Tibetan Buddhism.

Furthermore, it appears that the bhikkhuni lineage was never transmitted to Tibet in the first place and only the novice ordination is available to them.

* 1753: Sri Lanka reinstatement of monks ordination from Thailand-the Siyam Nikaya lineage

Paul Williams has also noted that the Mahāyāna never had nor ever attempted to have a separate Vinaya or ordination lineage from the early schools of Buddhism, and therefore each bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī adhering to the Mahāyāna formally belonged to an early school.

This continues today with the Dharmaguptaka ordination lineage in East Asia, and the Mūlasarvāstivāda ordination lineage in Tibetan Buddhism.

Nikāyas may emerge among monastic groupings as a result of royal or government patronage ( such as the Dhammayuttika Nikāya of Thailand, due to the national origin of their ordination lineage ( the Siyam Nikāya of Sri Lanka ), because of differences in the interpretation of the monastic code, or due to other factors ( such as the Amarapura Nikāya in Sri Lanka, which emerged as a reaction to caste restrictions within the Siyam Nikāya ).

In this view, ordination lineage becomes all-important and an external organization such as a church may " lose " its theological authority while the " priesthood " ( conceived in this abstract and individualistic sense ) may continue via an alternative lineage.

It offers novice ordination and follows the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Buddhism.

* 2010: The first Tibetan Buddhist nunnery in North America ( Vajra Dakini Nunnery in Vermont ), offering novice ordination in the Drikung Kagyu lineage of Buddhism, was officially consecrated.

These included ordination into the " White Sangha " lineage of Tibetan yogis ( Tib.

Japanese Buddhism during this time still maintained the lineage of the Vinaya and all officially licensed monks had to take their ordination under the Vinaya at Tōdai-ji.

In later generations, the Vinaya lineage also died out, despite repeated attempts to revive it, thus no more ordination ceremonies take place at Tōdai-ji.

Paul Williams has also noted that the Mahāyāna never had nor ever attempted to have a separate vinaya or ordination lineage from the early Buddhist schools, and therefore each bhikṣu or bhikṣuṇī adhering to the Mahāyāna formally belonged to an early school.

In the lineage of the vinaya, the requirements for ordination as a monk or a nun include the presence of at least five other monks, one of whom must be a fully ordained preceptor, and another an acharya ( teacher ).

Therefore, most countries which adopted Buddhism from China, also adopted the Dharmaguptaka vinaya and ordination lineage for bhikṣus and bhikṣuṇīs.

According to the fossil record, Lissamphibia, which includes all modern amphibians and is the only surviving lineage, may have branched off from the extinct groups Temnospondyli and Lepospondyli at some period between the Late Carboniferous and the Early Triassic.

In evolutionary biology, adaptive radiation is the evolution of ecological and phenotypic diversity within a rapidly multiplying lineage.

However, the presence of a vigorous population of Celtic lineage, principally of Irish origin, has supported the creation of other celebrations of beer, often for marketing purposes, such as Saint Patrick's Day ( Día de San Patricio ), patron of Ireland, which is celebrated with abundant libations.

Bridges can also be classified by their lineage, which is shown as the vertical axis on the diagram.

Second, through the genealogy it is shown that the son born to Ruth is more than just a gift from God to continue her lineage.

In the final aspect of the vision, Israel ’ s restoration, as a holy place, is declared in contrast to the Edomite lineage that shall end.

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Salvation within Christianity is not dependent on the continuation of a biological lineage.

What is clear is that formally, there is mostly peaceful living side by side, with strong inter-dialogue at many levels to reconcile past differences between the two groups, and many Christians emphasize common historical heritage and religious continuity with the ancient spiritual lineage of the Jews.

It is said that Palden Lhamo, the female guardian spirit of the sacred lake, Lhamo La-tso, promised Gendun Drup, the 1st Dalai Lama in one of his visions " that she would protect the reincarnation lineage of the Dalai Lamas.

Particularly well known species include the frog Oxyglossus pusillus ( Owen ) of the Eocene of India and the toothed frog Indobatrachus, an early lineage of modern frogs, which is now placed in the Australian family Myobatrachidae.

The issue of the instrument's exact lineage is still a matter of some debate, and the supposition that the double bass is a direct descendant of the viol family is one that has not been entirely resolved.

This episcopal structure is found in the ancient Churches: in the various churches of Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and other Eastern Church lineage, and also those of Anglican lineage.

The question of the relation between these early fossil species and the hominin lineage is still to be resolved.

There is very little fossil evidence for the split of the hominin lineage from the lineages of gorillas and chimpanzees.

His music is modern without being modernist, combining a reverence for the great Austro-German lineage of composers with very personal innovations in harmony and orchestration ( showing an awareness of the output of composers such as Debussy and Ravel, whose piano music he was known greatly to admire, along with a knowledge of more recent composers in his own German-speaking realm, such as Schoenberg, Berg, Hindemith, etc .).

The aardwolf can trace its lineage directly back to Plioviverrops 15 million years ago, and is the only survivor of the dog-like hyena lineage.

He was born of no traceable samurai lineage, being the son of a peasant-ashigaru ( foot soldier ) named Yaemon.

The earliest mention of a traceable lineage of Eagle Claw comes from the Liu Family of Hebei Province.

Its theoretical lineage is traceable to Aristotle ( Poetics ) but modern narratology is agreed to have begun with the Russian Formalists, particularly Vladimir Propp ( Morphology of the Folktale, 1928 ).

It is said that Wu Zhong, the oldest traceable master in the baji lineage, taught both arts together as an integrated fighting system.

His family was from Fengxiang ( 鳳翔, in modern Baoji, Shaanxi ) and claimed ancestry through officials of the Warring States Period state Han ), Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty, and Sui Dynasty, although the lineage was not completely traceable.

The lineage of algae according to Thomas Cavalier-Smith.

However, his descendants, including his successors, were according to records descended from at least one and probably several imperial princesses of the older lineage.

Within apes ( superfamily Hominoidea ), the gibbons diverged during the early Miocene ( between 19. 7 and 24. 1 mya, according to molecular evidence ) and the orangutans split from the African great ape lineage between 15. 7 and 19. 3 mya.

To hold him who has taught me this art as equal to my parents and to live my life in partnership with him, and if he is in need of money to give him a share of mine, and to regard his offspring as equal to my brothers in male lineage and to teach them this art-if they desire to learn it-without fee and covenant ; to give a share of precepts and oral instruction and all the other learning to my sons and to the sons of him who has instructed me and to pupils who have signed the covenant and have taken an oath according to the medical law, but to no one else.

As such, they are the distant relations of the Belgian, Danish, Greek, Norwegian, Spanish, and Swedish Royal Families, and bear lineage from, amongst others, Arab, Armenian, Cuman, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Mongolian, Norwegian, Portuguese, Serbian, and Swedish ethnicities, as well as, according to Moroccan and Chinese officials, respectively, being directly descended from the Prophet Muhammad and Tang Dynasty Chinese Emperors.

Some variants are identified and named according to the isolate they resemble, thus are presumed to share lineage ( example Fujian flu virus-like ); according to their typical host ( example human flu virus ); according to their subtype ( example H3N2 ); and according to their deadliness ( example LP, low pathogenic ).

Modern Kohanim claim descent from a biblical person, Aaron, brother of Moses, in the direct lineage from Levi, the patriarch of the Tribe of Levi, great grandson of Abraham, according to the tradition codified in the Tanakh ( שמות / Sh ' mot / Exodus 6 ).

Also, according to the legends of these institutions, “ the lineage of blind biwa layers ultimately is traced to … a blind disciple of the historical Buddha Shakyamuni, called Ganjutsu Sonja ”.

Around this time ( according to indications reproduced by his biographer P. Chacornac ), it is likely that René Guénon became acquainted with Hinduism, specifically via the initiatic lineage of Shankarâchârya, as well as with Taoism.

Furthermore, the Zagwe dynasty legitimated itself ( again, even according to the Kebra Nagast itself ) through the claim that its lineage descended from Moses and his Ethiopian wife.

Kobe beef comes from a specific breed and genetic lineage of cattle raised in the Hyogo prefecture according to the standards set by Kobe Beef Distribution and Promotion Council.

He was the ancestor of the Völsung lineage ( see Völsunga saga ) who were Frankish kings according to Snorri.

The status of the Cape Verde Kite is in doubt ; while not a completely monophyletic lineage according to mtDNA data ( Johnson et al.

As his own teaching career developed, he became renowned within Tibet for his ability to transmit the teachings of each Buddhist lineage according to its own tradition.

However, in the same year, mtDNA research revealed that a lion specimen from Neuwied Zoo ( which originated from the collection of the King of Morocco ) is not of sub-Saharan origin according to its mitochondrial lineage and, thus, very likely a descendant of a Barbary lion.

Zaynab disapproved of the marriage and her brothers rejected it, because according to Ibn Sa'd, she was of aristocratic lineage and Zayd was a former slave and the adopted son of Muhammad.

Adapa was a mortal from a godly lineage, a son of Ea ( Enki in Sumerian ), the god of wisdom and of the ancient city of Eridu, who brought the arts of civilization to that city ( from Dilmun, according to some versions ).

The Downes family were said to be able to trace their Cheshire lineage back to 864AD, according to Earwaker's History of East Cheshire families.

Éber Finn ( modern spelling: Éibhear Fionn ), son of Míl Espáine, was, according to medieval Irish legend and historical tradition, a High King of Ireland and one of the founders of the Milesian lineage, to which medieval genealogists traced all the important Gaelic royal lines.

Two fetuses found buried in his tomb may have been his twin daughters who would have continued the royal lineage, according to a 2008 investigation.

While OSMTH-KTI's rituals and traditions are currently based upon those of the historical Knights Templar, according to its website and their present leader, Grand Master Patrick Rea, there is no direct historical lineage between the two groups.