The term American Buddhism can be used to describe all Buddhist groups within the United States, including Asian-American Buddhists born into the faith...
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Buddhism in the United Kingdom is the fifth-largest religious group in the United Kingdom. The 2021 United Kingdom census recorded just under 290,000 Buddhists...
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regarding Zen Buddhism in the United States. Dates with "?" are approximate. 1893: Soyen Shaku comes to the United States to lecture at the World Parliament...
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US, practiced by 2% of the population, followed by Hinduism, Buddhism, and Islam, each with 1% of the population. States vary in religiousity from Mississippi...
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Buddhism in the West (or more narrowly Western Buddhism) broadly encompasses the knowledge and practice of Buddhism outside of Asia in the Western world...
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The schools of Buddhism are the various institutional and doctrinal divisions of Buddhism which are the teachings off buddhist texts. The schools of Buddhism...
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Buddhism, a form of Vajrayāna, is practised in the Himalayan states as well as in Mongolia and Russian Kalmykia. Japanese Shingon also preserves the Vajrayana...
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Secular Buddhism—sometimes also referred to as agnostic Buddhism, Buddhist agnosticism, ignostic Buddhism, atheistic Buddhism, pragmatic Buddhism, Buddhist...
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France and the United Kingdom. European contact with Buddhism first began after Alexander the Great's invasion of northwestern India in the 3rd century...
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Philip Kapleau's The Three Pillars of Zen (1965), it is one of the two most influential books on Zen in the west. Buddhism in the United States San Francisco...
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