Age Quote by Linus Roache

One thing that attracted me to Buddhism was the support for this larger vision of values.

— Herbie Hancock

Buddhism, I think, is probably facing the single most difficult transition from one historical epoch to another, which is really the transition to modernity.

— Stephen Batchelor

My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.

— Richard Gere

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

I was looking for something within Judaism that had a spiritual nature and not just a religious nature. So my trainer at the time…

— Sandra Bernhard

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

— Dalai Lama

I grew up in a mostly Buddhist environment.

— Uma Thurman

“the living altar of Buddha Himself. Whatever we do, we do with grateful heart and pure joy sanctioned by Enlightened Consciousness; eating, drinking, talking,…

— Kaiten Nukariya

Originally, I was interested in athletic pursuits like snowboarding, martial arts and surfing. When I went to the Himalayas and met a number of…

— Frederick Lenz

When I first was exposed to Buddhism in the mid-1960s, I said it was so practical and utterly pragmatic. That's what attracted me to…

— Joan Halifax

Well neither of us were "Buddhists" then because it was new to us. We were 60's people. Psychedelic relics, you know... whatever, right on,…

— Surya Das

I've tried Buddhism, Scientology, Numerology, Transcendental Meditation, Qabbala, t'ai chi, feng shui and Deepak Chopra but I find straight gin works best.

— Phyllis Diller