Sentence examples for new sect from inspiring English sources

(near Burlington), where they organized the new sect.

Eventually he was allowed to establish an appropriate monastic centre for the new sect.

This new sect became the Thammayut order that later would dominate the Thai monkhood.

In tribute to this spiritual cross-pollination, I'm starting a whole new sect.

Each of them, on his return to Japan, established a new sect of Japanese Buddhism: the Tendai sect, founded by Saichō, and the Shingon sect, established by Kūkai.

Mongkut also had become concerned that many superstitious practices had grown up around the core Theravada teachings, and he established a new sect, which was dedicated to purifying Buddhist practice.

Of all the many new sects, however, none are as organized as the Redeemed Christian Church of God.

The people of Obilo had turned to new sects of Christianity; the greatest drummer was now a pastor.

As headquarters of their new sects, Saichō and Kūkai founded, respectively, the Enryaku Temple on Mount Hiei and the Kongōbu Temple on Mount Kōya.

In the Nara period, Buddhism had been no more than a transplantation of the Buddhism of Tang China, but the two new sects, though derived from China, developed in a characteristically Japanese fashion.

But when I realize what they are, I throw the best of them against the wall, and would even throw them into the fire if I had one close by, which they richly deserve, as false and deceiving and outside of the treatment required by common nature, and as inventors of new sects and new lifestyles, and as giving the common people reason to believe and accept as true all the stupidities they contain".