Introduction Little Buddha is a drama directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and produced by Jeremy Thomas and released in 1993. Judging by the examples of such movies as The Last Emperor and The Sheltering Sky , Bertolucci has always been interested in exploring the connections between the modern and traditional, the everyday and exotic, and between the West and the East. In Little Buddha , these themes intertwine into a rich storyline of a boy completing a journey to his discovery, a search of a monk for his lama, and the mythical legend about Prince Siddhartha’s route to enlightenment. The storyline is supported by beautifully done visuals, which contribute to the creation of a well-realized similitude about the nature and ideas behind Buddhism. Main body From watching the first ten minutes of Little Buddha , it becomes evident that the director chose an opposition of two color schemes to designate the regions of the world where the events took place. For the Eastern world, the color palette is warm, with red, orange, and brown dominating imagery. For the Western world, the colors are cool and muted. The warm colors were also associated with the religion of Buddhism and the positive perspective it was given in the film. In order to explore how Buddhism was depicted in the film, several aspects of the story should be discussed. First, the key storyline is directly related to Buddhism. As Lama Norby, a monk from Tibet discovers that there was a boy in Seattle who could be reincarnated from Lama Dorje, he flies to the USA to deliver the news to the boy and his family. To teach the boy about Buddhism, the monk gives him a book called Little Buddha , which explored the life and the enlightenment of Siddhartha Gautama. Very quickly, the boy gets caught up in the story of the enlightened man who lived twenty-five hundred years ago. The tale of Siddhartha Gautama is fascinating because it reflects the imaginative nature of Buddhism as a whole: during the birth of Siddhartha, a tree supported his mother, when the boy started making his first steps, lotus flowers bloomed underneath his feet. Despite belonging to a royal family, Siddhartha decided not to shelter himself from the pain and suffering of the world. After giving up everything that he owned, Siddhartha became an ascetic; however, he soon realized that reaching the enlightenment was only possible through finding a middle ground between the good and the bad in the world. The life story of Siddhartha Gautama is the most meaningful to Buddhism because it reflects the ideas and issues that lie at the center of the religion. For example, the movie heavily focuses on reincarnation, which is a detrimental component of Buddhism because its followers believe that when a person dies, the soul does not die but is reborn into another person. This explains why monks were searching for Lama Dorje’s reincarnation. The family of the boy who was the most likely reincarnation of Lama is not Buddhist. However, as Jesse learns more about the religion, he convinced others to go to Nepal, and to meet other monks was the best thing for him. Therefore, if reincarnation were not an aspect of Buddhism, the would-be no story about Jesse