Sentence examples for five sects from inspiring English sources

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Tibetan Buddhism has five sects, namely Geluk, Sakya, Nyingma, Kagyu and Jhonang.

"In a ceremony of Mystery and Sacralization, the members of the five sects of Playa Voudoun (the green-mudded snake-people of Damballah; the red, fire wielding knights of Ogoun; the white-veiled, erotic Ezilis; the black-draped, morbidly obscene yet capricious Guede; and the energetic drummers and builders of Couzin Azaka) invaded the flaming Sacrosanct Pentagon.

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These two sects brought certain esoteric Buddhist rituals into Shintō.

Hostility between Saudi Arabia and Iran dates back centuries, with the emergence of two sects in Islam.

Iraq reminds Cockburn of Lebanon; he quotes a local saying: "Two Iraqis, three sects".

Members of all three sects have gone as fighters to Syria.

"At any moment, there will be war between the two sects," he said.

The main doctrinal difference between the two sects centres on the question of Vishnu's grace.

In most cases, though, members of the two sects still live harmoniously together.

The two sects were thenceforth to form the mainstream of Japanese Buddhism.

He mentions both Christians and Nazareans, possibly two kinds of Christians, Greek-speaking and Syriac-speaking, or two sects.

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