The visitor was meant to be transformed as he climbed through the levels of Borobudur, encountering illustrations of progressively more profound doctrines the nearer he came to the summit.
According to Zhiyi, the Buddha unfolded his teachings gradually in five periods, taking into account the capacity of his listeners: as they became more enlightened, they could absorb progressively more profound doctrines.
This profound philosophical doctrine, the identity of intuition and expression is, moreover, a principle of ordinary common sense, which laughs at people who claim to have thoughts they cannot express or to have imagined a great picture which they cannot paint.
The great tympanums (the space above the lintel of a door that is enclosed by the doorway arch) of Autun, Moissac, and other medieval churches symbolize some of the most profound Christian doctrines concerning the ends of human life and man's relations with the divine.
"We're witnessing a profound evolution in doctrine in the space of a lifetime, which doesn't happen often," he says.
In particular, he promotes the "revolution in military affairs" doctrine, a profound effort to redefine America's war-fighting architecture that has provoked superheated debate inside America's military-industrial complex and the national-security community.
The confirmation of extraterrestrial intelligence could have a profound impact on religious doctrines, potentially causing theologians to reinterpret scriptures to accommodate the new discoveries.
Not classical socialist doctrine, but a profound belief that the Labour party was the instrument in his hands for the establishment of social decency.
John Rutledge later wrote that "Coke's Institutes seems to be almost the foundations of our law", while Jefferson stated that "a sounder Whig never wrote more profound learning in the orthodox doctrine of British liberties".
Arguably his most profound influence on analytic philosophy has not been to give us particular philosophical doctrines, but to contribute to the basic shape, the basic orientation of an entire major subdiscipline of philosophy.
The Kremlin has proclaimed the fundamental axioms of the Putin Doctrine loudly and clearly, but no deafness is so profound as that of those who will not hear.
