The authority for many of his teachings derived from the traditions of the Desert Fathers, early Christian monks and ascetics.
Some of the major Vaishnava groups include the Shrivaishnavas (also known as Vishishtadvaitins) and Madhvas (also known as Dvaitins) of South India; the followers of the teachings of Vallabha in western India; and several Vaishnava groups in Bengal in eastern India, who follow teachings derived from those of the saint Chaitanya.
Though his teachings were derived from Buddhist texts, Goenka kept the religiosity to a minimum, an approach he described in 2000 at the Millennium World Peace Summit, a large gathering of religious leaders at the United Nations.
Dialectical materialism, a philosophical approach to reality derived from the teachings of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
In 1900 Inoue published Nihon yōmei gakuha no tetsugaku, a study of the Japanese philosophy derived from the teachings of Wang Yangming.
Shāfiʿī, also called Madhhab al-Shāfiʿī, in Islam, one of the four Sunni schools of religious law, derived from the teachings of Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī (767 820).
Among religions derived from the teachings and practices of India, a true hierarchy comparable to that of the Christian orders is found only in the Tibetan ecclesiastic setting.
And with us, our tongue is our sword," he explains in "The Wu-Tang Manual"), chess strategy, and practices derived from the teachings of the Five Percent Nation, a group formed in 1963 by Clarence (13X) Smith, a student minister at the Nation of Islam's Temple Number Seven, in Harlem.
The four cardinal virtues of the Stoic philosophy are wisdom (Sophia), courage (Andreia), justice (Dikaiosyne), and temperance (Sophrosyne), a classification derived from the teachings of Plato.
"What I found as an educator and as a First Amendment expert, the fact that the materials were derived from the teachings of L. Ron Hubbard does not in and of itself make them religious," Haynes said.
He said the president "derived" his ideas from the teachings of -- now follow along -- Tocqueville, Adam Smith, "the world's major religions," Aristotle, George Eliot, Emily Dickinson, William Wordsworth, Pope John Paul II, Cicero, Abraham Lincoln and the founding fathers Benjamin Rush, Thomas Jefferson and George Washington.
