The libationer also functioned as a moral preceptor, instructing the faithful in the sect's own highly allegorical interpretation of the Laozi, which they considered to be the revealed work of Lord Lao the Most High.
Shaivism, though inclined in doctrinal matters to inclusiveness, inculcates some fundamental lines of conduct: one should worship one's spiritual preceptor (guru) as God himself, follow his path, consider him to be present in oneself, and dissociate oneself from all opinions and practices that are incompatible with the Shaiva creed.
Shiva himself was believed to have been the first preceptor of the system.
Guido Guersi, an Italian preceptor, or knight, who led the religious community of the Antonite monastery at Isenheim (in southern Alsace), asked the artist to paint a series of wings for the shrine of the high altar that had been carved in about 1505 by Niclaus Hagnower of Strasbourg.
Having dedicated his commentary (1522) on St. Augustine's De civitate Dei to Henry VIII of England, he went in 1523 to England, where he was appointed preceptor to Mary, princess of Wales, and lectured on philosophy at Oxford.
Templar territories were divided into provinces, which were governed by provincial commanders, and each individual house, called a preceptory, was headed by a preceptor.
The type of austerities in which a monk engages, the length of time he practices them, and their severity are carefully regulated by his preceptor, who takes into account the monk's spiritual development, his capacity to withstand the austerities, and his ability to understand how they help further his spiritual progress.
In Vaenius's Amoris Divini Emblemata (1615), quotations from St .Augustine replace those of Ovid, and Cupid reappears as the soul's preceptor.
First, Urdu poets generally chose an ustād, or master, just as a Ṣūfī novice chose a murshid, or preceptor, and one's poetic genealogy was always a matter of much pride.
The central character, Saint-Preux, is a middle-class preceptor who falls in love with his upper-class pupil, Julie.
Later Kublai Khan appointed the lama 'Phags-pa as his "imperial preceptor" (dishi), and the politico-religious relationship between Tibet and the Mongol empire is stated as a personal bond between the emperor as patron and the lama as priest (yon-mchod).
