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This list includes Buddhist kingdoms, empires, and khanates in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Eastern Europe. South Asia [ edit ]
Buddhist population by country (Other data) Country/territory Population % Buddhist No. of Buddhists Year Source Argentina: 47,327,407 2022 National census Australia: 25,422,788 2.4% 615,800 2021 National census [10] Bangladesh: 165,158,616 0.61% 2022 National census [11] Belgium: 0.3% 2018 Other [12] Bhutan: 735,553 2017 National census ...
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Buddhism (/ ˈ b ʊ d ɪ z əm / BUUD-ih-zəm, US also / ˈ b uː d-/ BOOD-), [1] [2] [3] also known as Buddha Dharma, is an Indian religion [a] and philosophical tradition based on teachings attributed to the Buddha, a wandering teacher who lived in the 6th or 5th century BCE. [7]
Thailand, which was the only country to avoid colonization, had two important Buddhist kings, who pushed for modernization and reformation of the Buddhist sangha. They were King Mongkut (r. 1851–68), and his son King Chulalongkorn (r. 1868–1910), who were responsible for several key modern reforms of Thai Buddhism . [ 166 ]
A lineage in Buddhism is a line of transmission of the Buddhist teaching that is "theoretically traced back to the Buddha himself." [1] The acknowledgement of the transmission can be oral, or certified in documents. Several branches of Buddhism, including Chan (including Zen and Seon) and Tibetan Buddhism maintain records of their historical ...
East Asian Buddhism a term used by scholars [5] to cover the Buddhist traditions of Japan, Korea, Vietnam and most of China and Southeast Asia Eastern Buddhism an alternative name used by some scholars [6] for East Asian Buddhism; also sometimes used to refer to all traditional forms of Buddhism, as distinct from Western(ized) forms. Ekayāna ...
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