Since then, several traditions of Traditional Japanese Reiki have been established, the main traditions of which are listed below.
Within the several traditions, doctrinal disputes have sometimes led to division or else have accompanied divisions caused otherwise.
Several traditions hold that Njǫrd was a divine ruler of the Swedes, and his name appears in numerous Scandinavian place-names.
Mrs May's speech was an attempt to fuse several traditions, none of them liberal in any of the many senses of that word.
Ms. Tompkins's ravishing quilts connect to several traditions, including African bark cloth paintings, American textiles and, not least of all, modernist painting.
She noted her workshop encompassed several traditions: "The myth is Middle Eastern, the chants are Native American and some of the meditative techniques come from Tibet".
While it seems sui generis in the context of current pop culture, "Trapped" draws on several traditions: the thriving chitlin circuit of black theater productions; telenovelas and soap operas; pulp films of the 1940s; and Italian opera.
The focusing of attention upon a visual image (e.g., a flower or a distant mountain) is a common technique in informal contemplative practice and has been formalized in several traditions.
"It encompasses several traditions: the sensuality of India's art, the formality of Tibetan art and the serenity of Chinese art," said Janet Baker, the Bowers's curator of Asian art.
Whether or not he can be called the father of the novel, he fathered the founding fathers of several traditions: the English novel (via Defoe), the comic novel (via Fielding), the metafictional novel (via Sterne), the German novel (via Goethe), the Latin American "boom" novel (via Borges) and arguably the historical novel (via Scott).
Mr. Hayashi seems intent on fusing several traditions: Zen calligraphy with Post-Minimalist painting (especially Richard Tuttle); the city views in Japanese wood-block prints with the reductivism of Conceptualists like On Kawara; the impeccable austerity of Japanese gardens and haiku with Mondrian and Malevich.
