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), ...

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 ...

Skilful is another way of saying ‘right’. The Eightfold Path (magga) suggests that ‘right’ action and ‘right’ thoughts are ways of acting skilfully. This is based on the idea that ...