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.
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...
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....
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...
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 ...
Buddhism has a long history in China, and China has produced a large number of Buddhist films. However, after all, Buddhists are a minority in both the total Chinese population and the Chinese working class. The Chinese working class1, as the largest group in the Chinese population, is boun...
The context chosen for this study is Thailand, a country with the World’s second-largest number and percentage of Buddhists, especially for the Theravada branch, which is the oldest and most conservative tradition (Pew Research Center 2020). Thailand’s socio-cultural and economic system has bee...
patterns to Buddhist sites, the paper further contends that the idea of circuit becomes less meaningful for mass tourism as most domestic visitors (overnight and same day) undertake one-site visits; make their own travel arrangements themselves, and a very small percentage avail of package tours...
25). Inscriptions from this period describe a small percentage of women slaves who were literate, and there are inscriptions describing bhikkhunīs (fully ordained nuns)4 who were literate in Buddhist ritual knowledge (Than Tun 1956). Starting in the eighteenth century and accelerating during ...
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 ...