Sentence examples for great disciple from inspiring English sources

The major figures of the school of Eṣfahān were Mīr Dāmād (Muḥammad Bāqir ibn al-Dāmād, died 1631/32) and his great disciple Mullā Ṣadrā (Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Shīrāzī, c. 1571 1640).

The Mandelstam who wrote of "the Russian hundred-rouble notes with their wintry crunch" can be heard everywhere in Brodsky, his great disciple: "The fat river shines like a black piano".

Ansai was himself intensely nationalistic: he instructed his disciples that if Confucius and his great disciple Mencius were to come to Japan at the head of an invading army, the students would be obliged to don their armour and attempt to capture both sages.

Mahatma Gandhi, in South Africa and India, set the great countercurrent of nonviolence rolling through the 20th century, but his forebear in civil disobedience, by his own account, was Henry David Thoreau, of Boston, and Gandhi's great disciple was the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., who read both Thoreau and Gandhi at Boston University.

The scene reminded him of a depiction of the supreme enlightenment of Nirvana, in which Buddha lies in the center of the ten great disciples.

When Socrates and his two great disciples composed a system of rational ethics, they were hardly proposing practical legislation for mankind..

Among the works at the show are his iconic series Ten Great Disciples of Buddha, as well as a rare calligraphy scroll painting and some select hand-colored works.

About the same time, Guyon attracted her greatest disciple, the influential writer (and later archbishop) Franƈois de Salignac de La Mothe-Fénelon (1651 1715).

He seems to have avoided contact with English writers: it was not until the very end of his stay that he took dinner with his greatest disciple, George Moore.

After years of estrangement, he is now reconciled with Norah, and Anoushka has become his greatest disciple and hope for the future.

The women gathered here span multiple generations, from the pioneer Brenda Bufalino to the company of her greatest disciple, Barbara Duffy, to the young practitioners who take for granted what their tap mothers had to struggle for.