Within 40 years of the order's foundation, talented members were concentrated in the schools at Paris, Bologna, Cologne, and Oxford; many eminent masters of the universities took the Dominican habit and became in time regents in the friaries.
Katie Toms Toumani Diabate, The Mande Variations (World Circuit) £12.99 Over 20 years, Mali's Diabate has established himself as the pre-eminent master of the kora, west Africa's 21-string harp.
It confirmed the players' reputation as the pre-eminent masters of football but it also set a standard that all subsequent teams have struggled to match.
Like Lu, who was a member of the old aristocracy of Wu, Tao Hongjing of the 5th and 6th centuries enjoyed even greater renown as the most eminent Daoist master of his time.
The eminent Hasidic master Rabbi Chaim of Tsanz (1797-1876) relathe the following to a disciple who had had a bitter dispute with a friend: "A man was once lost in a forest for several days.
In the first quotation above, an eminent Buddhist master warns that our global ecological crisis could lead to the Earth degenerating from a biosphere that supports an extraordinarily rich variety of human (and other animal and plant) life into a world populated by hungry ghosts.
In a barber chair, Francesco Guzzi received a painful new piece of permanent artwork on his left bicep from Simone Falcetta, a former equestrian champion now best known as the pre-eminent tattoo master of Milan.
Wilson died suddenly, aged 52, in May 2014, 22 years into her tenure as leader of Britain's pre-eminent fashion master's course, where the professor was a mentor to students including Alexander McQueen, Phoebe Philo and Stella McCartney.
Although there is no evidence that the earliest Daoist organization, literature, or ceremonies were in any way indebted to Buddhism, by the 4th century there was a distinct Buddhist influence upon the literary form of Daoist scriptures and the philosophical expression of the most eminent Daoist masters.
Welcome to the world of fashion's pre-eminent haute goth, Rick Owens, master of the access-all-areas catwalk stunt.
Though Blume is widely considered Cleary's pre-eminent heir as a master of realistic fiction for middle-grade readers -- and books by both are still hugely popular decades later -- the two have never met.
