Many of the bhakti teachings in the Bhāgavata are presented as yogic activities — meditating on the lila of Krishna ; hearing and singing about Vishnu / Krishna ; remembering, serving, and worshiping him ; dedicating all of one's actions to him — all are among nine activities of Bhakti Yoga taught in the Bhāgavata.

Many subsequent Kagyu Karmapas have been particularly adept at one or more of these six yogic practices, which in Vajrayana tradition are held to have been given by the Buddha and were passed on through an unbroken lineage via Tilopa to Naropa, Marpa and Milarepa and on to the present day.

Many companies have upgraded their sales manpower and tested new selling, distribution, and promotion techniques to gain a bigger competitive edge.

Many people with serious visual impairments live independently, using a wide range of tools and techniques.

Many methods are used in amateur astronomy, but most are variations of a few specific techniques.

Many of these techniques are identical to those carried out under high performance liquid chromatography, however use of FPLC techniques are typically for preparing large scale batches of a purified product.

Many rendering algorithms have been researched, and software used for rendering may employ a number of different techniques to obtain a final image.

Many foreign " flying winemakers " have had a hand in this development, bringing global viticulture and winemaking techniques to the Colli Fiorentini.

Many concepts and techniques of analysis and differential equations have been generalized to the setting of Riemannian manifolds.

Many very old double basses have had their shoulders cut or sloped to aid playing with modern techniques.

Many new dishes were introduced, as well as techniques.

Many developments in first aid and many other medical techniques have been driven by wars, such as in the case of the American Civil War, which prompted Clara Barton to organize the American Red Cross.

Many companies are working on techniques to reduce cost in a variety of ways including reducing the amount of platinum needed in each individual cell.

Many alternative, often contradictory, theories have been proposed regarding the pyramid's construction techniques.

Many building codes specify basic foundation design parameters for simple conditions, frequently varying by jurisdiction, but such design techniques are normally limited to certain types of construction and certain types of sites, and are frequently very conservative.

Many of the procedures and techniques that he utilized would not be used again for centuries.

Many techniques, collectively called dithering, have been developed to approximate a wider range of colors with a small color palette by using pixels of two or more colors to approximate in-between colors.

Many papers have since presented fabrication methods for producing superhydrophobic surfaces including particle deposition, sol-gel techniques, plasma treatments, vapor deposition, and casting techniques.

Many commercial opiate screening tests cross-react appreciably with hydrocodone and its metabolites, but chromatographic techniques can easily distinguish hydrocodone from other opiates.

Many variations and alternatives to the original hypnotic induction techniques were subsequently developed.

Many of the techniques of X-ray spectroscopy were inspired by the methods that are used with visible light spectroscopes and spectrograms, by substituting crystals, ionization chambers, and photographic plates for their analogs in light spectroscopy.

Many techniques have been used to create steel ; Mediterranean ones differ dramatically from African ones, for example.

Many of the techniques of CPU and OS design that improve interrupt latency will decrease throughput and increase processor utilization.

Many theoretical search techniques for detecting Kaluza-Klein Resonances have been proposed using the mass couplings of such resonances with the top quark, however until the LHC reaches full operational power observation of such resonances are unlikely.

Many logically-based program transformation techniques have been developed to assist the programmer in this process, transforming programs that are correct but inefficient into programs that are both correct and efficient.

Many earlier writers, mourning the demise of the old order, tended to romanticize and exaggerate this `` gracious Old South '' imagery, creating such lasting impressions as Margaret Mitchell's `` Tara '' Plantation.

Many such loans have been made to establish small concerns or to aid in their growth, thereby contributing substantially to community development programs.

Many other Protestant denominations preceded the Anglicans in such action.

Many protists also exist as individual amoeboid cells, or take such a form at some point in their life-cycle.

Many aquatic salamanders and all tadpoles have gills in their larval stage, with some ( such as the axolotl ) retaining gills as aquatic adults.

Many amateurs use online tools to plan their nightly observing sessions using tools such as the Clear Sky Chart.

Many computer programs contain algorithms that detail the specific instructions a computer should perform ( in a specific order ) to carry out a specified task, such as calculating employees ' paychecks or printing students ' report cards.

Many newer brands are alcohol-free and contain odor-elimination agents such as oxidizers, as well as odor-preventing agents such as zinc ion to keep future bad breath from developing.

Many plants in this family, such as wild carrot, have estrogenic properties and have been used as a folk medicine for birth control.

Many people, however, became members of the French Resistance, and they are the allegorical equivalents of the voluntary sanitary teams in the novel, such as Tarrou, Rambert, and Grand, who fight back against the unspeakable evil ( the Nazi occupiers ).

Many industries, notably textiles, firearms, clocks and watches, buttons, horse-drawn vehicles, railroad cars and locomotives, sewing machines, and bicycles, saw expeditious improvement in materials handling, machining, and assembly during the 19th century, although modern concepts such as industrial engineering and logistics had not yet been named.

Many evangelical creeds will restate traditional Calvinist or Arminian theology, such as belief in biblical inerrancy and creation.

Many see Calvinism as growing in acceptance, and some prominent Reformed Baptists, such as Albert Mohler and Mark Dever, have been pushing for the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a more Calvinistic orientation.

Many of these new companies could not meet such requirements to be listed on the Board.

Many agates are hollow, since deposition has not proceeded far enough to fill the cavity, and in such cases the last deposit commonly consists of drusy quartz, sometimes amethystine, having the apices of the crystals directed towards the free space so as to form a crystal-lined cavity or geode.

Many such children live in Sambutsu especially, on the eastern coast.

Many " authentic Ainu villages " advertised in Hokkaido such as Akan and Shiraoi are tourist attractions and provide an opportunity to see and meet Ainu people.

Many bacteria, however, possess mechanisms ( such as siderophores ) for scavenging iron within environmental niches in the human body, and experimental developments of iron chelators, therefore, aim to reduce iron availability specifically to bacterial pathogens.

Many Indo-Aryan languages, such as Hindi-Urdu, also write the two phones differently and treat them as completely distinct phonemes: is written as ' प ' ( or ' پ '), while is written ' फ ' ( or ' پھ ') and so on.

Many of the smaller birds, such as the sunbirds, bee-eaters, the parrots and kingfishers, as well as the larger plantain-eaters, are noted for the brilliance of their plumage.

Many such are localised, and do not form part of general Australian use, while others, such as kangaroo, boomerang, budgerigar, wallaby and so on have become international.

Many stars visible to the naked eye have such a low absolute magnitude that they would appear bright enough to cast shadows if they were only 10 parsecs from the Earth: Rigel (− 7. 0 ), Deneb (− 7. 2 ), Naos (− 6. 0 ), and Betelgeuse (− 5. 6 ).

Many expansion boards were produced for Amiga computers to improve the performance and capability of the hardware, such as memory expansions, SCSI controllers, CPU boards, and graphics boards.