It is believed that tsampa throwing actually predates Buddhist beliefs in the area, originally used as an offering to animistic gods to request their protection.

The English term mindfulness, in use for centuries, long predates its use in the Buddhist context.

Like most animistic elements, the Nāga is seen in both Buddhist and Hindu-influenced contexts, but worship of nagas predates Indian influence in the region, and are common in folktales of Laos and Isan.

Dianetics predates Hubbard's classification of Scientology as " applied religious philosophy ".

Samkya philosophy is said to have inspired Buddha, ( though this is highly questionable as the Buddha predates this time by about 10 centuries ) and probably Gnosticism & Neo-Platonism.

While the philosophical movement Experimental Philosophy began around 2000, the use of empirical methods in philosophy far predates the emergence of the recent academic field.

The architecture of the NV1 predates the Direct3D philosophy and, as such, game compatibility was a problem with the Diamond Edge boards.

Le Péril Bleu predates Charles Fort ’ s Book of the Damned ( 1919 ) and retains a humanistic and tolerant rather than fearful and xenophobic philosophy.

The first A is an expansive threnody on solo cello ( Schmidt's own instrument ) whose seamless lyricism predates Strauss's Metamorphosen by more than a decade ( its theme is later adjusted to form the scherzo of the symphony ); the B section is an equally expansive funeral march ( deliberately referencing Beethoven's Eroica in its texture ) whose dramatic climax is marked by an orchestral crescendo culminating in a gong and cymbal crash ( again, a clear allusion to similar climaxes in the later symphonies of Bruckner, and followed by what Harold Truscott has brilliantly described as a " reverse climax ", leading back to a repeat of the A section ).

The term Horned God itself predates Wicca, and is an early 20th century syncretic term for a horned or antlered anthropomorphic god with pseudohistorical origins who, according to Margaret Murray's 1921 The Witch-Cult in Western Europe, was the deity worshipped by a pan-European witchcraft-based cult, and was demonized into the form of the Devil by the Mediaeval Church.

The use of the word to describe quick speech or repartee long predates the musical form, meaning originally " to hit ".

If it is indeed related to this lineage, it must represent a most basal form, as it almost certainly predates any grebe-flamingo split.

The Canons Regular follow the more ancient form of Augustinian religious life, which developed toward the end of the first millennium, and thus predates the founding of the friars.

Some scholars consider it most likely that this Jewish tradition of fallen angels predates, even in written form, the composition of Gen 6: 1-4.

The Great Council of Chiefs in its most recent form was established under Section 116 of the 1997 Constitution ( now defunct ), but it actually predates the Constitution by many years, having been established by the British colonial rulers as an advisory body in 1876, two years after Fiji was ceded to the United Kingdom.

" In this form, the story predates James.

Early evidence from Java in the form of art work is said to show that the chabang predates the sai's use in Okinawa and China.

The form itself predates automobiles.

The formation of BoA L. A. predates the creation of the Bank of America, merging with the Bank of Italy ( USA ) in 1928-29 to form the Bank of America.

The name Toucouleur has a debatable origin, with some sources stating it as a French creation meaning " all colors ", and other sources citing it as a term that predates colonialization meaning " people from Tekrur ", considering them the descendants of the Iron Age state of Takrur, which would make the present French form popular etymology.

Colloquially, the latter form is also called the Oslo dialect, which is misleading since the Oslo dialect predates the Dano-Norwegian koiné, and though both influenced by and partially replaced by standard østnorsk, it is still in use, and since the koiné language is not a dialect.

The use of the word " rap " to describe quick and slangy speech or repartee long predates the musical form.

One ansible-like device which predates Le Guin's is the Dirac communicator in James Blish's 1954 short story " Beep ".

Although the Kebra Nagast is the best-known account of this belief, the belief predates the document.

It is also possible that the phrase predates both of these and refers instead to Cowboy action shooting techniques.

There is also a U. S. Supreme Court case that predates the dictionary, Jackson ex dem Bradford v. Huntington, that uses the phrase " black letter " in the same sense as black letter law: " It is seldom that a case in our time savors so much of the black letter, but the course of decisions in New York renders it unavailable.

The use of data coding for data compression predates the computer era ; an early example is the telegraph Morse code where more-frequently used characters have shorter representations.

Computational linguistics as a field predates artificial intelligence, a field under which it is often grouped.

Map of Constantinople ( 1422 ) by Florentine cartographer Cristoforo Buondelmonti is the oldest surviving map of the city, and the only one that predates the Turkish conquest of the city in 1453

There is also a substantial body of Chicano literature that predates both Raso and the Federal Census Bureau.

Although the castrato ( or musico ) predates opera, there is some evidence that castrati had parts in the earliest operas.

This predates and is distinct from its use in mobile phones.

The term sidearm actually predates the descriptor forehand, which is seemingly in use today as a simpler means to communicate the technique: equating to a tennis forehand.

The terminology is further blurred by the ( now rare ) synonym finite Fourier transform for the DFT, which apparently predates the term " fast Fourier transform " ( Cooley et al., 1969 ) but has the same initialism.

A term that predates the usage of file manager is directory editor, which dates back at least to 1978.

The blast beat is a drum beat characteristic of grindcore in all its forms, although its usage predates the genre itself.

Surgery as an option predates the use of the less invasive radioisotope therapy ( radioiodine 131 thyroid ablation ), but is still required in cases where the thyroid gland is enlarged and causing compression to the neck structures, or the underlying cause of the hyperthyroidism may be cancerous in origin.

Boyarin suggests that this in part reflects the fact that much of Judaism's more than 3, 000-year history predates the rise of Western culture and occurred outside the West ( that is, Europe, particularly medieval and modern Europe ).

Poirot also bears a striking resemblance to A. E. W. Mason's fictional detective — Inspector Hanaud of the French Sûreté — who, first appearing in the 1910 novel At the Villa Rose, predates the writing of the first Poirot novel by six years.

These theories are backed by findings in the Monte Verde archaeological site, which predates the Clovis site by thousands of years.

This paper predates the first presentation by Joseph Fourier on the subject in 1807.

Carmilla predates Bram Stoker's Dracula by 25 years, and has been adapted many times for cinema. Illustration from The Dark Blue by D. H. Friston, 1872

* Code of Ur-Nammu – the oldest known tablet containing a law code surviving today, it predates the Code of Hammurabi by some 300 years

Other historians assert that it derives from the valve bugle designed by Michael Saurle ( father ) in Munich in 1832 ( Royal Bavarian privilege for a " chromatic Flügelhorn " 1832 ), which predates Adolphe Sax's work.

Neolithic farming brought permanent settlements, and the wonderfully well-preserved stone house at Knap of Howar on Papa Westray dating from 3500 BC predates by about 500 years the village of similar houses at Skara Brae on West Mainland, Orkney.

Smoking and salting of fish — in particular of spawning salmon and herring which are caught in large numbers in a short time and can be made suitable for edible storage by this practice predates 19th century Britain and indeed written history, probably going back as long as humans have been using salt to preserve food.

The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries.

Many black Mormons are members of the Genesis Group, an organization of black members that predates the priesthood ban, and is endorsed by the church.

Although the word " markka " predates the currency by several centuries, the currency was established before being named " markka ".

While the work on radioactivity by Becquerel and Marie Curie predates this, an explanation of the source of the energy of radioactivity would have to wait for the discovery that the nucleus itself was composed of smaller constituents, the nucleons.

The field of numerical analysis predates the invention of modern computers by many centuries.

Rapping is a primary ingredient in hip hop music and reggae, but the phenomenon predates hip hop culture by centuries.

Gun rights activists in recent decades have sometimes argued for a fundamental natural right to keep and bear arms that both predates the U. S. Constitution and is covered by the Constitution's Ninth Amendment ; according to this viewpoint, the Second Amendment only enumerates a pre-existing right to keep and bear arms.