Devadatta practised in a similar way and with the same books as common Buddhists, but followed the similar tapas and performed rituals to the past three buddhas and not Śākyamuni. In Cullavagga section VII of the Vinayapiṭaka of the Theravādins which deals with schisms, it is told how Devadatta went forth along with a number of the Buddha’s other relatives and clansmen. In the first year he attained psychic power, but made no supermundane achievement. Looking round to see whom he could convince to honour him he decided to approach Prince Ajātasattu, the heir to the Magadhan throne. Having psychic power
Azam Tariq (religious leader) Azam Tariq (religious leader) Azam Tariq (Urdu: اعظم طارق March 1962 – 6 October 2003) was the leader of the politico-religious organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, a Deobandi organization, which was officially banned by the government of Pakistan in August 2001.On 26 June 2018, Pakistan lifted ban on Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. After his death in 2003, Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi was selected as the president of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan. He was born to a poor farmer Mohammad Fateh in Chichawatni. He studied at a local madrassa and then enrolled in the Jamia Uloom Islamia in Binori Town, Karachi. Maulana Moawiyah Azam is his elder son,