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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
World Buddhist population by percentage (Pew Research Center, 2010). ... Category:Religion maps of the world This page was last edited on 19 April 2024, at 19:41 ...
Buddhism in France (5 C, 8 P) G. Buddhism in Germany (3 C, 3 P) ... List of Buddhist kingdoms and empires; Buddhism in Lithuania; M. Buddhism in the Maldives ...
This list of Buddhism by country shows the distribution of the Buddhist religion, practiced by about 535 million people as of the 2010s, [1] [2] representing 7% to 8% of the world's total population. It also includes other entities such as some territories. Buddhism is the State religion in four countries — Cambodia, Myanmar, Bhutan and Sri ...
In the latter half of the 19th century, Buddhism came to the attention of Western intellectuals and during the course of the following century the number of adherents has grown. There are now between 1 and 4 million Buddhists in Europe, the majority in Italy, Germany, Hungary, France and the United Kingdom. [1]
Buddhist communities of Myanmar (12 P) N. Buddhist communities of Nepal (4 C, 10 P) S. Buddhist communities of Sri Lanka (2 P) This page was last edited on 1 ...
By the late 1990s, there were more than 140 Tibetan Buddhist meditation centers in France. The first Tibetan Buddhist communities were established in the early 1970s. Phendé Khenchen of the Sakya school (Ngor lineage) established his temple, E Wam Phendé Ling, in 1973. The Karmapa, head of the Karma Kagyu school, visited in 1975.
Zhangzhung or Shangshung was an ancient kingdom in western and northwestern Tibet, existing from about 500 BCE to 625 CE, pre-dating Tibetan Buddhism. The Zhangzhung culture is associated with the Bon religion, which has influenced the philosophies and practices of Tibetan Buddhism. Zhangzhung people are mentioned frequently in ancient Tibetan ...