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Buddhist expansion in Asia via the Silk Road Schools of Buddhism in contemporary Asia See also Christianity by country , Islam by country , Judaism by country , Hinduism by country , Commons:Category:Religion maps of the world
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 ...
This list includes Buddhist kingdoms, empires, and khanates in South Asia, South East Asia, East Asia, Central Asia, West Asia and Eastern Europe. ... Today parts of ...
Map showing the three major Buddhist divisions in Tibet, Mongolia, Nepal, East and Southeast Asia. Theravāda Buddhism is practiced in the following countries and by people worldwide: East Asia: China (mainly by the Shan, Tai, Dai, Hani, Wa, Achang, Blang ethnic groups mainly in Yunnan) South Asia:
The schools of Buddhism are the various ... Map of the major ... The Pali Tipitaka is the doctrinal foundation of all major Theravāda sects today. Part of ...
The most important places in Buddhism are located in the Indo-Gangetic Plain of southern Nepal and northern India.This is the area where Gautama Buddha was born, lived, and taught, and the main sites connected to his life are now important places of pilgrimage for both Buddhists and Hindus.
Mahadharmaraksita (literally translated as 'Great Teacher/Preserver of the Dharma'), was "a Greek ("Yona") Buddhist head monk", according to the Mahavamsa (Chap. XXIX), [71] who led 30,000 Buddhist monks from "the Greek city of Alasandra" (Alexandria of the Caucasus, around 150 km north of today's Kabul in Afghanistan), to Sri Lanka for the ...
Due to his widespread popularity, the Dalai Lama has become the modern international face of Tibetan Buddhism. [80] Today, Tibetan Buddhism is adhered to widely in the Tibetan Plateau, Mongolia, northern Nepal, Kalmykia (on the north-west shore of the Caspian), Siberia (Tuva and Buryatia), the Russian Far East and northeast China.