Foster Senior Curator for Traditional Asian Art at Asia Society Museum in New York ... The blooming of a lotus is said to mimic the Buddhist eightfold path — it grows from the mud (the cycle of life), ...

The Noble Eightfold Path is also known as the Threefold Way as it contains the three basic aspects of Buddhist life, which are ethics, meditation and wisdom. Each part of the Noble Eightfold Path ...

Buddhism teaches that Nirvana is reached when all want and suffering is gone. The Eightfold Path is often represented as a wheel, known as the Wheel of Dharma. 'Dharma' is an ancient Sanskrit word ...