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  2. Buddhism in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Buddhism in Italy is the third most spread religion, next to Christianity and Islam. In the country there are 358,000 Buddhists , that is to say the 0.6% of the total population. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  3. Buddhism in Europe - Wikipedia

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    It is considered to be the oldest and largest Theravada Buddhist center in Europe and has been declared a National Heritage site. The main building of Das Buddhistische Haus was designed by the architect Max Meyer for Dr. Paul Dahlke , a German physician who had undertaken a number of trips to Ceylon prior to World War I and became a Buddhist.

  4. Island Hermitage - Wikipedia

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    Island Hermitage on (Polgasduwa) Dodanduwa Island, Galle District, Sri Lanka is a famous Buddhist forest monastery founded by Ven Nyanatiloka Mahathera in 1911. It is a secluded place for Buddhist monks to study and meditate in the Theravada Buddhist tradition, and it contains an English and German library.

  5. Das Buddhistische Haus - Wikipedia

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    Das Buddhistische Haus (English: Berlin Buddhist Vihara, literally the Buddhist house) is a Theravada Buddhist temple complex in Frohnau, Berlin, Germany. It is considered to be the oldest and largest Theravada Buddhist center in Europe and has been declared a National Heritage site.

  6. Chithurst Buddhist Monastery - Wikipedia

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    Cittaviveka (Pali: 'discerning mind'), commonly known as Chithurst Buddhist Monastery, is an English Theravada Buddhist monastery in the Thai Forest Tradition. It is situated in West Sussex , England in the hamlet of Chithurst between Midhurst and Petersfield .

  7. Buddhism in England - Wikipedia

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    A few of the significant events were the foundation of London’s Buddhist Society in 1924 and the Theravada London Buddhist Vihara in Chiswick in 1926. Anagarika Dharmapala (1864-1933), the founder of the Mahā Bodhi Society in 1891, was instrumental in presenting Buddhism as a living monastic tradition to the UK. [ 3 ]

  8. Theravada - Wikipedia

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    Theravāda (/ ˌ t ɛr ə ˈ v ɑː ð ə /; [a] lit. 'School of the Elders') [1] [2] is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. [1] [2] The school's adherents, termed Theravādins (anglicized from Pali theravādī), [3] [4] have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha's teaching or Dhamma in the Pāli Canon for over two millennia.

  9. Buddhism in France - Wikipedia

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    A 1997 opinion poll counted as sympathizers young people who feel "an intellectual affinity with Buddhism or expressed a sympathy to a Buddhist worldview." [4] About three quarters of Buddhists in France come from Asian countries, especially Southeast Asia, and mainly practice Theravada Buddhism. In 2013, the ethnologist Cécile Campergue ...