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The African countries and territories in the Indian Ocean also have significant Buddhist minorities. Mauritius has the highest Buddhist percentage (between 1.5 [3] to 2% [4] of the total population) among African countries due to a high number of Chinese people (nearly 40 thousand or 3% of the Mauritian population [5]).
Central Asian Buddhist monk teaching a Chinese monk. Bezeklik Caves, 9th–10th century; although Albert von Le Coq (1913) assumed the blue-eyed, red-haired monk was a Tocharian, [1] modern scholarship has identified similar Caucasoid figures of the same cave temple (No. 9) as ethnic Sogdians, [2] an Eastern Iranian people who inhabited Turfan as an ethnic minority community during the phases ...
The relationship between Buddhism and democracy has a long history with some scholars claiming the very foundations of Buddhist society were democratic. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Though some historic Buddhist societies have been categorized as feudalistic, the relationship between peasants and land owners was often voluntary.
Most of Maldive's Buddhist physical history was obliterated. [147] Hindu artifacts were also targeted for obliteration and the actions have been compared to the attacks on the Buddhas of Bamiyan by the Taliban. [148] [149] [150] 7 February 2012 was the date of the anti-Buddhist attack by the Islamists. [151]
Buddhist studies, also known as Buddhology, is the academic study of Buddhism.The term Buddhology was coined in the early 20th century by the Unitarian minister Joseph Estlin Carpenter to mean the "study of Buddhahood, the nature of the Buddha, and doctrines of a Buddha", but the terms Buddhology and Buddhist studies are generally synonymous in the contemporary context.
This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, [4] representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population. It also includes other entities such as some territories. Buddhism is the official religion in four countries, Bhutan, Cambodia, Myanmar, and Sri ...
For Buddhism, mental health is of supreme importance, and individuals must strive towards improving this by practicing non-violence and refraining from sexual misconduct and lying. However, Buddhist traditions do acknowledge physical ill-being. Pain and suffering are inevitable like death, for which taking any form of medication are not prohibited.
Established Disestablished Capital(s) Language(s) Today parts of; Pyu-city State: 2nd century BCE 1050 CE Sri Ksetra, Halin, Beikthano, Pinle, Binnaka: Pyu Myanmar Thaton Kingdom