Statistics show that 5.5 million Buddhists reside in India at present, account for 0.8% of the population. Although the percentage is low, Buddhism occupies a significant position in philosophical and cultural fields in India.
Provinces with relatively high percentage of Buddhists are Jakarta, Riau, North Sumatra, and West Borneo. The majority of Buddhists now practice in the Theravadin tradition. Two of the large Buddhist monasteries are located in North Jakarta (Sunter) and West Java (Pacet). Unfortunately, because C...
suggest that poverty has been effectively eliminated in developed countriesand that great progress has been made in rapidly developingcountries like China where the percentage of the populationliving on less than $1 per day has dropped from roughly 45%to less than 16% over the past thirty years....
Fig.2 depicts theaveragewelfare and theaveragelifetime of different populations. Since we concentrate on averages, the population size is out of consideration. Each sentient species has a specific universe of emotions and a frame of reference (indicated by positive and negative max.) for measuring...
These uncertainties left aside, it is possible to present at least an estimationof the percentage of Buddhists among the visitors of Hoq cave. Compared withthe presence of other clearly identifiable religious communities–such as theVaiṣṇavas (seven names) and theŚaivas (eight names)–the...
Despite about 75% Jewish population in our local public schools, the relentless Christian-ness of the USA permeated. Most of our teachers and all of the school administrators were not Jewish. Therefore, we Jewish students were forced to learn and sing Christmas carols alongside our Christian class...
Provinces with relatively high percentage of Buddhists are Jakarta, Riau, North Sumatra, and West Borneo. The majority of Buddhists now practice in the Theravadin tradition. Two of the large Buddhist monasteries are located in North Jakarta (Sunter) and West Java (Pacet). Unfortunately, because ...
In Buddhist economics, compassion is translated into compassion for the poorest. Hunger, thirst, homelessness, lack of medical care and education are the needs of a huge percentage of the human population on earth who exist in continuing poverty. The argument of this chapteris thatpoverty is ...
3 In terms of proportion of the Tibetan population, it is estimated that between 10 and 12% of the male population became monks4 and roughly 1% of the female population became nuns. Furthermore, there was an unknown number of nuns who stayed with their families—probably more than monks ...
Table 2. Percentage of respondents’ characteristics by the temple type in the questionnaire. It should be noted that our soundscape research referred to ISO 12193 (ISO Standard) [1,61,62], but considering the difference between the soundscape in Buddhist temples and that in other public spaces...