Advice Quote by George Saunders

“Chinese Buddhism was the natural study of reality, and led to feelings of devotion just from noting the daily leaves, the colors of the…

— Kim Stanley Robinson

On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place…

— Trevor Hall

I turned into a monk when my mother went to learn Buddhism in Burma. While she learnt at the monastery, I used to roam…

— Kabir Bedi

“As the Buddha said: "I have shown you the way to liberation, now you must take it for yourself.”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile.

— Dalai Lama

“He invited the Indian scholar Paramartha to come and set up a Translation Bureau for Buddhist texts, and the scholar stayed for twenty-three years.…

— Eliot Weinberger

“I think this is a bodhi tree,” I said, “just like Buddha sat under! It’s so exciting. I’m feeling sort of enlightened just standing…

— Christopher Moore

In the fall of 1988, I worshipped God in a Buddhist temple. As the smell of incense filled the air, I knelt before three…

— John Shelby Spong

I never stopped studying Buddhism. In the past few years, in between movies, I do a retreat.

— Jet Li

If you use your mind to look for a Buddha, you won't see the Buddha.

— Bodhidharma

People in the West sometimes have these marvelous visions of India and Tibet. They assume that there are all these sadhus walking around and…

— Frederick Lenz

“Maybe it shouldn’t surprise us that Buddhism, with all its early austerity, was founded by a man who, as a member of the ruling…

— Robert Wright