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Nan Hua Temple in Bronkhorstspruit, South Africa is the largest Buddhist pagoda in Africa.. Buddhism is practised in Africa.Though there have been some conversions amongst Africans, the majority of Buddhists in Africa are of Asian descent, mostly Chinese, Vietnamese, Sri Lankan or Japanese.
Buddhism is a tiny religion in Africa with around 250,000 practicing adherents, [44] and up to nearly 400,000 [45] if combined with Taoism and Chinese Folk Religion as a common traditional religion of mostly new Chinese migrants (significant minority in Mauritius, Réunion, and South Africa).
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 ...
According to McMahan, Buddhism of the form found in the West today has been deeply influenced by this modernism. [ 11 ] [ 15 ] [ 13 ] Buddhist modernist traditions are reconstructions and a reformulation with emphasis on rationality, meditation , compatibility with modern science about body and mind.
The 1963 Nigerian census, the last that asked about religion, found that about 47.2% of the population was Muslim, 34.3% Christian, and 18.5% other. [22] Nigerian states that implement some form of sharia law (in green)
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.
Buddhism remained in decline thereafter until the formation of the Siam Nikaya and Amarapura Nikaya with the support of the Portuguese and Dutch East India Company respectively. During the 1958 anti-Tamil pogrom , Tamil rioters attacked the Sri Naga Vihara in Jaffna and the Nagadeepa Purana Vihara , completely destroying the latter. [ 203 ]
Phap Hoa Temple, a Buddhist temple in Adelaide, Australia.Buddhism is the fastest-growing religion by percentage in Australia. [34]Buddhism is based on the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha, who was born in modern day Nepal and lived and taught in India in the 5th century BC.