Sentence examples for indian sage from inspiring English sources

Among his Buddhist paintings, the most famous was a rendering of the Indian sage Vimalakirti, who became, as it were, the "patron saint" of Chinese Buddhist intellectuals.

In Europe the work was known under the name The Fables of Bidpai (for the narrator, an Indian sage, Bidpai, called Vidyapati in Sanskrit), and one version reached the West as early as the 11th century.

As Doris Lessing notes in her introduction to the most recent English translation, one version of the Sanskrit framing narrative has Alexander the Great enlisting an Indian sage to reform a cruel potentate by telling him stories.

In Part 2, the more abstract "Idiot Variations," Mr. Eckert plays the village idiot who imagines himself a mystic, dressed in the ragged white robes of an Indian sage with a string of Tibetan bells hanging from his neck.

Vyasa, (Sanskrit: "Arranger" or "Compiler")also called Krishna Dvaipayana or Vedavyasa, (flourished 1500 bce?), legendary Indian sage who is traditionally credited with composing or compiling the Mahabharata, a collection of legendary and didactic poetry worked around a central heroic narrative.

When Emperor Wu of Liang showed the Indian sage Bodhidharma, the first patriarch of the Zen sect, around the temples he had built and asked him hopefully how much merit he had thereby accumulated, the Indian replied, "No merit, none at all".

Following the example of Indian sages, he believed he had to renounce the world for a higher life.

These traditions aren't immune to ideals of mastery and control: the bible teaches that man has dominion over nature, and the "spiritual" exercises taught by ancient Indian sages were – not so unlike modern drugs – techniques to alter and regulate states of mind and body.

Thousands of years ago, Indian sages developed a system for stilling the thoughts that's now practiced across America.

But one political commentator quoted a saying by Chanakya, the Indian political sage from ancient times, to question how long the party's allies will remain loyal: When a tree falls, the birds won't sit on it.

Haskell Indian Nations University students reported a greater number (n = 25 v. n = 13) and wider diversity of write-in products, including cedar, Navajo tea, peyote, bitterroot, horny goat weed, huckleberry tea, Indian tea, sage, saw palmetto, and willow.