The Islamic tradition has produced a rich and sophisticated exegetical literature.
The "diversity of tradition" has produced a remarkable and worthwhile tolerance of dissent, even of oddballs.
Just as the Judeo-Christian tradition has produced many offshoots, yoga has many schools, like Ashtanga, Iyengar and Tantra.
Each tradition has produced millions of words that prove that theirs is the one that came direct from God and got it right.
In addition to their canons and commentaries, the Shvetambara and Digambara traditions have produced a voluminous body of literature, written in several languages, in the areas of philosophy, poetry, drama, grammar, music, mathematics, medicine, astronomy, astrology, and architecture.
While there were some who praised the changes, others called them an attack on a grand tradition that has produced world-class scholars.
But others see it as an attack on a tradition that has produced scholars of high quality as well as a slide into an American-style system.
The problem for elected officials is how to sort through competing plans and find the best way to continue the tradition that has produced past successes from Rockefeller Center to Lincoln Center and Battery Park City.
Adele has dominated the pop charts in the United States and Britain this year with her second album, "21," (Capitol/XL) a powerful set of songs about heartbreak, firmly rooted in the R&B tradition, that has produced several hits, chief among them "Rolling in the Deep," which spent nine weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
If Mr. Cuomo gained a sense of community at Molloy, Mr. Diorio said, it was through the call of political engagement — a school tradition that has produced a host of prominent graduates, including Charles J. Hynes, the Brooklyn district attorney; Raymond W. Kelly, the New York City police commissioner; and many state senators and assemblymen.
When Ellen Frank, whose studio is in Springs, completes her plans for a medieval theme event later this year, it will augment a tradition that has produced amusement, sparkle and memories, along with a chance to try out alternative identities for a brief while.
