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.
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....
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...
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....
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 purpose of this study is to gain an understanding of the ways in which active Buddhist consumers living in the city have disengaged from the consumerist culture and altered their lifestyle and consumption behaviors. To grasp the subtle complexity of the experience, fifteen active Buddhist ...
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...
In Pew Research Center telephone surveys conducted in 2018 and 2019, 65% of American adults describe themselves as Christians when asked about their religion, down 12 percentage points over the past decade. Meanwhile, the religiously unaffiliated share of the population, consisting of people who ...