They're Buddhist prayer beads.

And by 1963 this kind of got out of hand.

Movie Encoded By cool guy In the Buddhist year of 1974.

I thought that only idiots were happy, to be honest.

As a matter of fact, I talked to quite a few Buddhists recently.

You gave me that expression the eternal mama, you said. That's wonderful.

Who's that chic Buddhist Richard Gere cavorts with?

It's interesting. If I asked you to name the great religions of the world, what would you say?

Is it mainly Buddhism here? Yeah, it's Buddhism.

But what would you think was the second largest group, convincingly outnumbering Jews with 2.8 million, Muslims at 1.1 million,

And happiness, of course, is such a vague word, so let's say well being.

It has quite a long lineage.

And Asanga lived 800 years after the Buddha's time.

Just think about the beautiful buddha statues they blew up in Afghanistan.

Shiva's the liberal god. And they work together.

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It becomes critical to find a symbol that will pull together all Iranians

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He was converted from Buddhism to Christianity.

And if we slip from the realm of the sea into the realm of the spirit of the imagination, you enter the realm of Tibetan Buddhism.

So we went on and we looked in Wikipedia, we found this map.

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

And then the Buddhists, of course, think that, because we've all had infinite previous lives, we've all been each other's relatives, actually.

And in the current Iran,

Buddhism had its beginnings in India.

So, there was another one that I came across, and it's saving fish from drowning.

We believe in Buddhism.

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A conversation with Thich Nhat Hanh

What is science but the empirical pursuit of the truth?

A brave attempt to teach buddhism in the west.

Who is responsible for all these sufferings and failures? Some people try to justify that everything is normal and a reflection of divine will, putting the blame on nations as responsible for all prevalent vices and evils. They are of the opinion that

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Islam by suicide bombers.

Buddhism is a religion founded by the Indian Shakyamuni.

Buddhism was introduced into Japan in 538.

Our own as well as other people's world.

Remember what the rabbis and what Augustine said about how Scripture should be governed by the principle of charity.

Mormons.

Are you a christian?

Christians call it the rapture, but the Mayans knew about it, the hopis,The I Ching, the Bible.

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

Why not pass the Buddha's teachings on in a modern form.

He wants to burn Korans, our holy book.

We don't have to reinvent the wheel.