Given this, you’d be hard-pressed to see black at a Buddhist funeral. Poppies are said to represent death, and they’re worn ...

The lotus is often understood as a symbol of spiritual purity. The blooming of a lotus is said to mimic the Buddhist eightfold path — it grows from the mud (the cycle of life), it appears clean on the ...

The Buddha has not always been there for us to contemplate. For centuries he was represented only through a set of symbols. The story of how this changed, and how the Buddha came to be shown in ...