They're Buddhist prayer beads.

Yes. But Buddhist prayer beads.

This Buddhist image cannot be dated exactly.

He carved a Buddhist image out of wood.

Because from a Buddhist perspective all is one.

Who's that chic Buddhist Richard Gere cavorts with?

Is it difficult to act according to Buddhist principles?

This is a close up of the Buddhist monastery.

I trained briefly as a Buddhist monk under this guy.

And this is a temple in Japan for a Buddhist monk.

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The Buddhist says Life is about suffering . Very often we create suffering.

All at once, the Buddhist priest burst into laughter, spoiling the solemn atmosphere.

One day, I saw the picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine.

And I recently made a film called The Buddhist Science of the Mind.

The Buddhist spends all their lifetime trying to understand the nature of existence.

And on the far left there is a 400 year old Buddhist monastery.

And it's what Buddhist fishermen say, because they're not supposed to kill anything.

You had a string of Buddhist prayer beads with you, and you never did say why.

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A few days later, we went to a Buddhist temple in Footscray and sat around her casket.

Maitreya then took him to a certain heaven, which is the typical way a Buddhist myth unfolds.

Bon, an annual Buddhist event, is from July (or August on the lunar calendar) 13th to the 16th.

Now, I want to tell a story, which is a very famous story in the Indian and Buddhist tradition, of the great Saint Asanga who was a contemporary of Augustine in the West and was sort of like the Buddhist Augustine.

And he was discontented with the state of people's practice of the Buddhist religion in India at that time.

First question. Do you remember when I saw you in a bar after that old Buddhist priest was murdered?

At 85, the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh is one of the most influential spiritual leaders of our time.

And then finally, in Thailand we're Buddhist, we don't have a God, so instead, we say, In rubber we trust.

But the basis of our conversation was the different approach to spirituality on the part of the Muslim and Buddhist traditions.

And of course in the Buddhist universe, we've already done this already billions of times in many, many lifetimes in the past.

And it's interesting because I feel like there couldn't be a less likely candidate for someone becoming a Nichiren Buddhist than myself.

We said a Buddhist prayer so that all these wishes could come true. You can start to see some familiar balloons here.

And so, I think the best definition, according to the Buddhist view, is that well being is not just a mere pleasurable sensation.

And then we decided, why not get to religion because in the Philippines, the Catholic Church was pretty strong, and Thai people were Buddhist.

So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in Monterey.

And en route, we took darshan from Rinpoche, and he sat with us and told us about the Four Noble Truths, the essence of the Buddhist path.

And of course, in the Buddhist cosmos there are millions and billions of planets with human life on it, and enlightened beings can see the life on all the other planets.

Therefore all of you, in the Buddhist view, in some previous life, although you don't remember it and neither do I, have been my mother for which I do apologize for the trouble I caused you.

Luckily, they say I still am not sure but luckily, they say that when you reach that point because some people have said in the Buddhist literature, they say, Oh who would really want to be compassionate?

This insight of Einstein's is uncannily close to that of Buddhist psychology, wherein compassion karuna, it is called is defined as, the sensitivity to another's suffering and the corresponding will to free the other from that suffering.

That can happen in a club, it can happen in a Buddhist temple in Japan, it can happen, you know, at Carnegie Hall which is a great place to listen to music, It can happen at the Hop.

Of course, in Muslim, because of the teachings around the concept of idolatry, you don't find as many physical representations of divinity or of spiritual liberation as you do in the Buddhist tradition, where, of course, there are many statues of the Buddha that are highly revered.

But if you're a Zen Buddhist in the middle of September, you will be ordered out of your home, made to stand on a canonical platform and made to celebrate the festival of Tsukimi, where you will be given poems to read in honor of the Moon and the passage of time and the frailty of life that it should remind us of.