HISTORY
ANCIENT INDIA
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Question
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Buddhism is still widely practiced in India.
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Few Buddhists live in Asia.
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Most Buddhists live in monasteries.
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More than two million Buddhists live in the United States.
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Detailed explanation-1: -A co-creation of Western Orientalists and reform-minded Asian Buddhists, Buddhist modernism has been a reformulation of Buddhist concepts that has de-emphasized traditional Buddhist doctrines, cosmology, rituals, monasticism, clerical hierarchy and icon worship.
Detailed explanation-2: -Some Asian scholars and Buddhists resent the focus on convert Buddhism in the United States. One notes that Asian Buddhists have been in the U.S. over five generations, and that the family-rooted religious practice is still the most popular form of Buddhism in the country.
Detailed explanation-3: -With about 470 million followers, scholars consider Buddhism one of the major world religions.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spread of Buddhism With about 400 million followers, Buddhism is one of the largest religions in the world. Unlike Christianity and other monotheistic and polytheistic religions, Buddhism does not worship a deity. Nevertheless, Buddhism is a religion according to today’s understanding.