Buddha Shakyamuni tells us practitioner should still imagine by way of eons, not only days and hours. From a Buddhist point of view, lifestyles has no starting. What we do have is the will to beat pain. yet wish on my own isn't really adequate to accomplish the aim. What we'd like is the proper approach to support us accomplish that aim.'— His Holiness the Dalai Lama So compelling is the tale of Prince Siddhartha Gautama that it loses none of its sheen with a retelling. Impelled by means of a wish to care for the sorrows of human lifestyles, he renounces the area whilst slightly twenty-nine and unearths Buddhism. Giving Buddha's non secular trip a modern measurement, this anthology comprises essays via religious leaders like His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Lama Zopa Rinpoche and Lama Thubten Yeshe at the impression of Buddhist philosophy on them. both poignant are the money owed of others who, disenchanted with the current international, embark on a look for salvation. instructed by means of a probably basic idea, Donna Brown begins her quest to discover a truly 'good' individual; a trip which takes her from the center of Canada to Nepal's distant Kopan monastery. An inexplicable restlessness takes Robina Courtin from dabbling in medicines, political activism and martial arts to discovering fact as a Buddhist nun. although born right into a Sikh relatives, Dharmakirti grows up in Sikkim amidst Buddhist monasteries, maroon-robed clergymen and monastic rituals, and finally chooses the philosophy of Tibetan Buddhism over technological know-how. For Kabir Saxena, Buddhism deals a pragmatic course during this damaged, imperfect global. various and significant, the trail of the Buddha presents a unprecedented glimpse into Buddhism.