Sentence examples for four sects from inspiring English sources

Perhaps the four sects that constitute Tibetan Buddhism might form a Tibetan version of the Roman Catholic College of Cardinals and pick a successor.

Briefly a Plexiglass beam consisting of four Sects.

Even though the man originally born Tenzin Gyatso may be the religion's most popular public face in American culture (Keanu Reeves, we hardly knew ye), the Dalai Lama, in actuality, only leads one of Tibetan Buddhism's four sects, the Gelugpa school, and is not necessarily recognized as a national, in addition to spiritual, leader in other Buddhist traditions.

These two sects brought certain esoteric Buddhist rituals into Shintō.

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.