Article: Americans searching for spiritual meaning turn to buddhism.

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. _ It wasn't a leap of faith but rather the inability to take one that led Roger Bosse to embrace a new religion.

``Accepting Jesus Christ as God is a bit of a step in faith which I found difficult to take,'' says Bosse, who was raised a Methodist.

``Buddhism ... doesn't recognize a god-creator of the universe ... but it does recognize a spiritual essence in all individuals that can be experienced and understood.''

Many Americans today apparently are looking for that same type of experience.

They're flocking to courses like ``Living Buddhism in America,'' a summer-school class at Colorado College with a waiting ...