Sentence examples for zealous follower from inspiring English sources

Nāgarakertāgama describes Kertanagara as a great and wise king and as a zealous follower of Tantric Buddhism, which dealt with magic and demons and encouraged drinking and orgies of a ritual sort having nothing to do with pleasure-seeking.

Most suggestive of all is the quotation from Thrasyllus preserved by Diogenes Laertius (Diogenes Laertius IX 38), in which Thrasyllus calls Democritus a zealous follower of the Pythagoreans and asserts that Democritus drew all his philosophy from Pythagoras and would have been thought to have been his pupil, if chronology did not prevent it.

His suggestion of a sex tape featuring Ms. Machado sent his most zealous followers hunting for images.

Even at this point, however, Muhammad's control over his followers had its limits; his more zealous followers agreed to the pact only after much persuasion.

Although Polster, the district judge, has banned prosecutors from calling the Bergholz clan a cult during the trial, the prosecutors have made it clear they believe the word applies to Mullet's zealous followers.

Not long ago, one of my ostensible if somewhat unnecessarily zealous followers insisted that I would have allowed a brother's home to burn to the ground simply because he had not paid a nominal fee to Caesar of 18,420 drachma (in contemporary conversion rates).

The most zealous of his followers are, however, neither in his satsangs nor the street demonstrations, but online.

Don't follow the follower.

The leaders of Qinghua University, China's equivalent of M.I.T., have been zealous in ferreting out on-campus followers, but at Beijing University, No. 1 in the country, officials have adopted more of a "don't ask, don't tell" policy, one student said.

What followed was the most zealous eugenics campaign in America.

Always follow your followers.