I trained briefly as a Buddhist monk under this guy.

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

Join me for a rare and enlightening conversation with the legendary author, peace activist and Buddhist monk,

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

I'm going monk.

She asked the monk,

Are you a monk?

They're Buddhist prayer beads.

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.

Yes. But Buddhist prayer beads.

Perhaps he was a Jain monk,

He practices austerities almost like a monk.

Paldin is a 62 year old monk.

I got to go monk. Prayer. Prayer.

This Buddhist image cannot be dated exactly.

Well, I'm a loner, but not a monk.

He carved a Buddhist image out of wood.

Because from a Buddhist perspective all is one.

I became a monk, and I started studying meditation.

A 21 year old monk. He was very happy.

We are all the same inside. Aren't we, monk?

Is it difficult to act according to Buddhist principles?

This is a close up of the Buddhist monastery.

He prophesied me death, as if he were a monk.

I would not be happy if I had not become a monk.

My own way of dealing with it was to become a monk.

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

This desire to become a monk started when you were 7 years old?

Mendel was an Austrian monk and biologist who loved to work with plants.

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.

At midnight, the monk came and told us he had to close the casket.

A man and a boy had tea here. A soldier monk rides with them.

And of course, animals such as the monk seal are surrounded by our debris.

Let's face it, becoming a celibate monk is going to change a number of things.

To the life that we have created. (forest sounds as the monk walks through it)

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

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.

In the beginning they were reluctant because they thought that the life of a monk is hard, difficult.

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