According to A. W. Barber of the University of Calgary, Chan Buddhism was introduced to the Nyingmapa in three principal streams: the teachings of Korean Master Kim, Kim Ho-shang, ( Chin ho shang ) 金和尚 transmitted by Sang Shi in ca.

According to the Ming Shi, these cannons are soon presented to the Jiajing Emperor by Wang Hong, and their design is copied in 1529.

According to the Bei Shi ( Dynastic History of Northern Dynasties ) and the Sui Shu ( Chronicles of the Sui Dynasty ), both Chinese records, this area belong originally to the territory one of the five semi-nomadic Shiwei, the Bo Shiwei tribes ().

According to the Records of the Grand Historian, written by Sima Qian during the next dynasty and avowedly hostile to Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor was not the actual son of King Zhuangxiang of Qin.

According to the later Records of the Grand Historian, the following year Qin Shi Huang had some 460 scholars buried alive for owning the forbidden books.

According to the Book of Jin, the ancestors of Shi Le, the founder of Later Zhao, were a separate tribe of Xiongnu known as Qiāngqú ( 羌渠 ).

According to Nihon Shoki, the Hata clan, which was composed of descendants of Qin Shi Huang, arrived at Yamato in 403 ( the fourteenth year of Ōjin ) leading the people of 120 provinces.

According to Needham, the earliest development of the armillary sphere in China goes back to the astronomers Shi Shen and Gan De in the 4th century BCE, as they were equipped with a primitive single-ring armillary instrument.

According to a 2008 study by Shi et al., however, if focusing haplogroup D, Andamanese and Tibetan people diverged from the original haplogroup D around from 66, 400 to 51, 600 years ago, and the Japanese subclade emerged around 37, 700 years ago.

According to Shi ' a Muslim belief, Abel is buried in Nabi Habeel Mosque, located west of Damascus, in Syria.

According to an editorial by Michael Smith for the New Statesman, this was " Located at the furthest extreme of the southern no-fly zone, far away from the areas that needed to be patrolled to prevent attacks on the Shi ' a ; it was destroyed not because it was a threat to the patrols, but to allow allied special forces operating from Jordan to enter Iraq undetected.

According to Shi ' a view, Muawiyah opposed Ali, out of sheer greed for power and wealth.

According to the Records of the Three Kingdoms, Cao Zhi could recite the Shi Jing, Analects and more than ten thousand verses worth of poems before he even turned twenty.

According to half historian and half writer Jin Yong, Hong Taiji had the broad and wise views of Qin Shi Huang, Emperor Gaozu of Han, Emperor Guangwu of Han, Emperor Wen of Sui, Emperor Taizong of Tang, Emperor Taizu of Song, Kublai Khan, the Hongwu Emperor, and the Yongle Emperor.

According to Shi ' a belief buried next to Ali within this mosque are the remains of Adam and Noah.

According to the most prevalent version of the " Four Beauties " legend, the quartet's members are Xi Shi, Wang Zhaojun, Diao Chan or Diaochan, and Yang Guifei.

According to the Shi ' ite customs, memorial services ( called Arba ' een ) are held forty days after a person's death.

According to ancient history, Qin Shi Huang traveled east into the sea, and moored the boat to this stone.

According to Shi ' a scholar Muhammad Husain Javari Sabinal, Shi ' ism would not have spread at all if not for taqiyya, referring to instances where Shi ' a have been ruthlessly persecuted by the Sunni political elite during the Umayyad and Abbasid empires.

According to Twelver Shi ’ ah Islam, the Imams are perfectly able to give judgment on all matters of religious law and their judgment is always legally correct.

According to Shi ' a accounts, after his father's assassination at the will of Al-Mu ' tasim, the Abbasid caliph ordered Umar bin al-Faraj to find a teacher in Medina for the young Imam that would preach hatred toward the Ahl al-Bayt.

According to Shi ' a Islam, the first caliph should have been Ali followed by the Shi ' a Imams.

According to this doctrine, the universe was ruled by Heaven, T'ien -- as a natural force, or in the personification of a Supreme Sky-god -- governing all things by means of a process called the Tao, which can be roughly interpreted as `` the Order of the Universe '' or `` the Universal Way ''.

According to the Christian doctrine of Universal Reconciliation, the Greek New Testament scriptures use the word " eon " to mean a long period ( perhaps 1000 years ) and the word " eonian " to mean " during a long period "; Thus there was a time before the eons, and the eonian period is finite.

According to the book Gender, Crime, and Punishment published by Yale University Press, " Under the Alford doctrine, a defendant does not admit guilt but admits that the state has sufficient evidence to find him or her guilty, should the case go to trial.

According to Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar, the doctrine of Ahimsa does not say " Kill not " it says, " Love all ".

According to the doctrine of some Tibetan schools ( like Theravāda but for different reasons ), only the first of these is recognized.

According to both Catholic and Protestant doctrine, salvation comes by Jesus ' substitutionary death and resurrection.

According to the traditional doctrine ( Dicey ), conventions cannot be enforced in courts, because they are non-legal sets of rules.

According to the committee, these Lectures were included in the compilation " in consequence of their embracing the important doctrine of salvation.

According to this doctrine, only God can judge an unjust king.

According to this doctrine, the gods of Olympus were not supernatural powers still actively intervening in the affairs of men, but great generals, statesmen and inventors of olden times commemorated after death in extraordinary ways.

According to U. S. Army doctrine, a machine gun is distinguished from an automatic rifle by how it is used: a machine gun is a crew-served weapon, while an automatic rifle is used by a single person.

According to Ann-Marie Gallagher, a professor of women's studies and long-time author of many books related to Wicca, " there is no moralistic doctrine or dogma other than the advice offered in the Wiccan Rede ...

According to Pelagian doctrine, because humans are sinners by choice, they are therefore criminals who need the atonement of Jesus Christ.

* According to Catholic doctrine, the Catholic Church is a visible identifiable body that is literally catholic, in the sense of universal (" for all people ").

According to military doctrine, to be successful an attacker generally requires a 3: 1 ratio of numerical superiority over the defender for foot soldiers ; in mountain warfare this ratio should be considerably higher as the terrain favours defence.

According to the doctrine of real presence, the substances of the body and the blood of Christ and of the bread and the wine were held to coexist together in the consecrated Host during the communion service.

According to the Estonian Security Police, Russian influence operations in Estonia form a complex system of financial, political, economic and espionage activities in Republic of Estonia for the purposes of influencing Estonia's political and economic decisions in ways considered favourable to Russian Federation and conducted under the doctrine of near abroad.

According to Jain doctrine, the universe and its constituents-soul, matter, space, time, and principles of motion have always existed ( a static universe similar to that of Epicureanism and steady state cosmological model ).

According to Malloch ( 1966 ), this doctrine of permissible " equivocation " did not originate with the Jesuits.

According to present doctrine, that of " treaty monism ", treaties are in the Dutch legal system in principle self-executing ; no special transformation is needed by implementing special law, as in countries with a " dualistic " system ( such as the United Kingdom ).

According to the doctrine of the Catholic Church, the era of public revelation ended with the death of the last living Apostle.

According to the President, his doctrine consisted of four " prongs ," three of them practical, and one idealistic.

According to French newspaper Le Monde, the Chinese military doctrine is to maintain a nuclear force allowing it to respond to a nuclear attack.

According to Sitchin, ancient inscriptions report that the human civilization in Sumer, Mesopotamia, was set up under the guidance of these " gods ", and human kingship was inaugurated to provide intermediaries between mankind and the Anunnaki ( creating the " divine right of kings " doctrine ).

According to the church, “ The standard doctrine of the church is monogamy, as it always has been, as indicated in The Book of Mormon ( Jacob chapter 2 ): “ Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife ; and concubines he shall have none.