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10 Big Questions About Buddhism, Answered

April 1, 2019 by people.howstuffworks.com

“” People light the candles as they attend a prayer inside the Kuan Yin Buddhist temple on the eve of Lunar New Year in Malaysia. Mohd Samsul Mohd Said/Getty Images About 99 percent of the world’s nearly 500 million Buddhists live in the Asia-Pacific region [source: Pew]. But that doesn’t mean people in the West don’t know anything about Buddhism. Perhaps they’ve heard of it through certain celebrities who are adherents, or from a yoga teacher who spent three weeks in Nepal and keeps talking about “mindfulness.” Maybe they’ve seen the Dalai Lama on TV. They may even think the chubby smiling statue at the local Chinese restaurant represents Buddha (hint: it doesn’t). A 2015 report from the Pew Research Center projected the number of Buddhists worldwide to increase to 511 million by 2030, but with the worldwide population increase, the percentage of people who are Buddhists will actually decline from 7.1 percent to 6.1 percent. In North America, the percentage of people who are Buddhists is expected to increase from 0.8 percent in 2010 to 1.2 percent by 2050. Buddhists make up a tiny fraction of America’s religious landscape, registering at 1 percent or less of the population in… Read full this story


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