How many people in the world are followers of Tibetan Buddhism?

Buddhists in the world have a population of 700 million.

As of 20 10 12.30: the Buddhist population in the world is about 700 million! It accounts for about 10% of the world population. The main rankings are as follows:

0 1: China (total population) 1.37 billion. Buddhists account for 18% of the total population, with 246.6 million Buddhists.

02: Vietnam (total population) 87 million. Buddhists account for 80% of the total population. There are 69.6 million Buddhist believers.

03: Thailand (total population) 66.7 million. Buddhists account for 94% of the total population. There are 62.69 million Buddhist believers.

04: Japan (total population) 1.28 billion. Buddhists account for 44.8% of the total population. Buddhist believers accounted for 57.34 million.

05: Myanmar (total population) 57 million. Buddhists account for 89% of the total population. There are 50.73 million Buddhist believers.

06: India (total population) 65.438+0.2 billion. Buddhists account for 2.4% of the total population, with 28.8 million Buddhists.

07: Sri Lanka (total population) 20.65 million. Buddhists account for 76.7% of the total population. Buddhist believers15.83 million.

08: Cambodia (total population)14.8 million, accounting for 93% of the total population, and Buddhists13.76 million.

09: China Taiwan Province Province (total population) 23 million. Buddhists account for 55% of the total population. Buddhist believers12.65 million.

10: South Korea (total population) 50 million. Buddhists account for 22.5% of the total population. Buddhist believers11250,000.

1 1: Laos (total population) 6 million. Buddhists account for 92% of the total population. There are 5.52 million Buddhist believers.

12: Malaysia (total population) 28.7 million. Buddhists account for 19% of the total population. 5.45 million Buddhist believers.

13: Indonesia (total population) is 238 million. Buddhists account for 1.9% of the total population. There are 4.52 million Buddhist believers.

14: the United States (total population) is 300 million. The number of Buddhist believers accounts for 1.4% of the total population. The number of Buddhist believers is 4.2 million.

15: China and Hongkong (total population) 7 million. Buddhists account for 42% of the total population. There are 2.94 million Buddhist believers.

16: Philippines (total population) 90 million. Buddhists account for 3% of the total population. There are 2.7 million Buddhist believers.

17: Nepal (total population) 28 million. Buddhists account for 7.8% of the total population. Buddhists 2180000.

18: Mongolia (total population) is 2.68 million. Buddhists account for 80% of the total population. Buddhist believers 2140,000.

19: Singapore (total population) 5.08 million. Buddhists account for 32.5% of the total population. Buddhist believers 1.64 million.

20. Russia (total population)1.400 million. Buddhists account for 0.8% of the total population. Buddhist believers 1, 654.38+0.2 million.

Appendix A: Budan (total population) is 690,000. Buddhists account for 75% of the total population. Buddhists 5 10000.

B: Bangladesh (total population) 1.47 billion. Buddhists account for 0.6% of the total population. There are 880 thousand Buddhists.

The total population of Buddhism in the above 22 areas is 603.05 million. The main distribution is as follows:

East Asia (Buddhists) 332.92 million (Chinese mainland, Taiwan Province Province of China, Japan, China, Hongkong, South Korea and Mongolia).

48.2 million {Buddhists} in South Asia {India, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka}

Southeast Asia {Buddhists} 265,438+0610,000 {Thailand, Laos, Myanmar, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia}

In addition, there are 500,000-654.38+00,000 Buddhists, such as Germany, France and other countries with 250,000-500,000 Buddhists, such as Australia, South Africa, the Netherlands and other countries with 654.38+00,000-250,000 Buddhists, such as Norway and New Zealand. So, there are different lists! For example: Australia: According to the survey data of the Immigration Multicultural and Demographic Research Bureau of the Australian Federal Government, the Buddhist population in Australia has increased from 65,438+120,000 in 2006 to 3,57813 in 2006, and the Buddhist population has nearly tripled in five years, from 5,438 in 2006. Australia is like this, and so is France; According to the statistics of the French Buddhist Union many years ago, there are 770,000 Buddhists in France, nearly 10 years. The same rapid development of French Buddhism, there is no authoritative statistical data released. According to Agence France-Presse, there are about 5 million French Buddhists and Buddhist supporters! {But we can't confirm whether the specific Buddhist population in Wan Li is 1.5 million or 2.6 million! Because most Buddhist laymen are peaceful and low-key, they think that learning Buddhism is a personal matter, and they don't like deliberate confession and show off! I don't like registering Buddhist associations or alliances either! Therefore, the statistics of the Buddhist population in the world are always lower than the actual number: if the actual number is 70 million, the statistics are often 50 million! As for Germany, Britain and other countries with 100 or above, the data was 10 years ago or even 20 years ago! I don't need it at all The old Buddhist data of France, Australia and other countries 160 can not truly reflect the local Buddhist population in the last five years. To sum up, if we accurately count the number of Buddhist believers in more than 60 countries including France and the Netherlands in 20 10, and add 603.05 million people in 22 regions, the number of Buddhist believers in the world will eventually be about 700 million!

Special note: I have checked/searched/collected/counted 170 Buddhist population data in more than 70 countries. Because the collected data is different and the results are different, I made several versions! For French data+Australian data, I will first add up the 770,000 Buddhist population of the French Buddhist Union many years ago and the 350,000 Buddhist population of Australia in 200 1 year. For example, France 770,000+Australia 350,000 =1120,000, which is the lowest version! Then use AFP's 5 million statistics; For example, France's 5 million+Australia's 1.8 million = 6.8 million, which is the highest version. Although I have counted these two versions, I don't use them at all, so I put them aside. The high and low versions are for reference only! Then I estimate that I use France 1 10,000+Australia 500,000 = 1 0.5 million France10.5 million+Australia 700,000 = 2.2 million France 2 million+Australia110,000 = 3 million *! When I use this method to calculate the various versions of the total population of Buddhism in the world by analogy! The highest data is 870 million edition! The lowest version is only 640 million, and the huge difference between the two is predictable! There are 680 million versions and 730 million versions! Although it makes my head swell! Although I am not sure which version is more accurate, I am in the more reliable version of 680 million and 730 million! Release the average data of about 700 million! This kind of statistics should be more scientific and reasonable, and closer to the realistic version of the world Buddhist population!

Remarks: 1: The data of the world's Buddhist population of more than 300 million quoted in the market at present is the Gregorian calendar of 25 years ago! It was included in authoritative dictionaries such as Encyclopedia Britannica in the early 1990s, and has been widely used so far. (It's 20 1 1 year now, and some people still use the old data from 25 years ago! How funny! )。 As early as 198 1 year, the number of Buddhist believers in the world has reached 300 million, all over the world (including China 1 100 million, and the remaining 200 million Buddhist believers are mainly distributed all over Asia!

2. The road to the revival of Buddhism in India: 189 1 year, Sri Lankan Buddhist David Hewawitarne made a pilgrimage to India; Seeing the desolate scene of the holy land, my heart is infinitely sad! Now make a wish: revive Buddhism in the hometown of Buddha! And founded the Mahabodhi Society, which opened the curtain of the revival of Indian Buddhism!

More than 60 years later 1955, there are about 600,000 Buddhist believers in India! 1956: the Indian government held a large-scale international commemoration of the 2500th anniversary of Sakyamuni's nirvana! Take this opportunity: Dr. Ambega, the soul of India's new Buddhist revival movement-the Dalit leader who was born in the Dalit class and studied in Britain and the United States-organized and led 500,000 Hindu Dalits to collectively convert to Buddhism! Sensational all over India! The place to convert to Buddhism this time is: Nagpur, Maharashtra, South India! Conversion time:1956101October 14! At this point, Indian Buddhist believers broke through the 654.38+0 million mark in one fell swoop!

Because Dr. Ambedgar was the first Minister of Justice of India; And one of the drafters of India's independent constitution! Long-term commitment to eliminate the unequal caste system, and successfully abolished the unequal "untouchable" system through legislation! In India, it has a high prestige among the "untouchables" of about1.800 million! With the active promotion of Dr. Abe, Indian Buddhism has developed rapidly! By 196 1 year: the number of Buddhist believers in India has reached 3.25 million! 1980, Indian Buddhists broke through the 5 million mark! Reach 5554000 people! The Buddhist population accounted for 0.8% of the total population of India at that time! After more than 30 years of rapid and low-key peaceful development; Indian Buddhist believers have quietly broken through the 20 million mark and are still moving towards 30 million in the original peaceful, low-key and rapid development mode! As of 20 10, 12: Indian Buddhists account for about 2.4% of India's total population! About 28.8 million people! Although this figure is so insignificant compared with India's population of 654.38+02 billion! But for the Buddhist disciples who are committed to reviving Indian Buddhism! The Buddhist population can break through the100000 mark! Enough to eliminate the sadness caused by the demise of Indian Buddhism! At the same time, it also strongly proves that the revival of Indian Buddhism has been quite effective! India's Buddhist population is mainly distributed in Gujarat, Uttar Pradesh, Maharashtra and Bodhgaya, the Buddhist holy land!

The largest religion in India is Hinduism: there are about 654.38 billion Hindus, and the second largest religion in India is Islam, with about 654.38 billion. Buddhism, Christianity and Sikhism can only be hung in three rows in India! In addition, there are three Hindu countries in the world, namely India, Nepal and Mauritius.

3. The development of Buddhism in Macao is highly similar to that in Hong Kong! 50% of Macao residents believe in Buddhism; No matter Hongkong and Macau, or Taiwan Province Province and the mainland; Buddhism is the largest religion in the region! Taoism is the second largest religion in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan! Among dozens of religions in Taiwan Province Province, Taoism is the only religion with a population of one million! Buddhism is the only religion with a population of ten million! Among them, the population of Taoism in Taiwan Province Province is as high as 4 million, accounting for 18% of the total population in Taiwan Province Province. I'm glad to see the healthy and rapid development of Taoism. Bless Taoism!

4. 80% of the residents in Japan believe in a mixed belief of Shinto and Buddhism, 44.8% of the total population in Japan believe in Buddhism as the first belief and consider themselves Buddhist believers rather than Shinto, and 49.6% believe in Shinto as the first belief and consider themselves Shinto believers.

5.5 years ago, the Buddhist population in the United States only accounted for 0.7% of the total population in the United States. In the past five years, American Buddhism has developed like a rocket! A large number of white people converted to Buddhism. Among the more than 4 million Buddhist laymen in the United States, more than half are American whites, and there are more than 2,000 Buddhist temples (/Jing She/Zen Jing Center/Buddhist Dojo) in the United States. There are more than 200 Buddhist Dojo temples in new york! Nearly half of the Buddhist Dojo in new york is concentrated in Manhattan; There are over 70 Buddhist Dojo in the Lower East Side of Manhattan, new york! There are also 22 Buddhist Dojo in Flushing, Queens, new york! Dongchu Temple in new york, Damockwu Mountain and Xianggang Dojo in upstate New York have great influence among Chinese laymen in new york, and the new york Dojo in Foguang Mountain is quite popular among whites! Attracted many white people to learn Buddhism! Xilai Temple in Los Angeles is not only the largest Buddhist temple in the United States, but also the most powerful Buddhist Dojo in the United States, attracting many American residents who don't know Buddhism to know Buddhism and believe in it! The three major schools of Buddhism, namely Northern Buddhism/Tibetan Buddhism/and Southern Buddhism in the United States, complement each other and celebrate charity, peace, respect, equality and scientific Buddhism! Besides, Los Angeles, new york and San Francisco are the three major Buddhist cities in the United States.

Everyone must be very tired to see this, so relax and let's say the holy name together:

Nanwu teacher Sakyamuni Buddha! The southern Guanyin Bodhisattva has no great compassion! There is no big wish in the south!

6. 40% of the Russian Buddhist population is located in Tuva, Buryatia and kalmyk. Among them, it is worth mentioning that the Russian Federation {kalmyk} * * and the United States-the only country in Europe that believes in Buddhism. It has a land area of 76,000 square kilometers and a population of 360,000. More than 65% residents in China believe in Tibetan Buddhism! It is a standard Buddhist country!

7. Countries with rapid development of Buddhism (rapid growth of Buddhist population) Countries with rapid development of Buddhism in non-Buddhist areas in recent ten years (2001-2010) are as follows:

0 1: China.02: Australia.03: United States.04: India.05: France.06: New Zealand.07: Canada.08: Brazil.09: South Africa. 10: Netherlands.50438+0655.0000.0000000001

8: Amitabha! There are five regions where Buddhism is the largest religion: as follows.

China (18%) and Singapore (32.5%).

Hongkong, China (42%), Macau, China (50%) and Taiwan Province Province, China (55%).

Amitabha! There are five countries where Buddhism is the second largest religion: as follows.

Japan (44.8%), South Korea (22.5%) and Nepal (7.8%).

Malaysia (19%). Australia (1.9% 2006 5438+0).

Amitabha! There are eight Buddhist countries in the world, as follows:

Thailand (94%), Bhutan (75%), Myanmar (89%) and Cambodia (93%).

Mongolia (80%), Laos (92%), Vietnam (80%) and Sri Lanka (76.7%).

8. Although the Buddhist population in Vietnam accounts for the vast majority of the total population in Vietnam, Catholicism, one of the three major Christian sects, has a great influence on Vietnam! Because Vietnam was once a colony of Christianity (Catholicism) in France, under the colonial rule of more than half a century, Catholicism has always occupied the highest level of all walks of life in Vietnam. Even today at 20 1 1, Catholicism is still the only belief of many high-level people in mainstream society in Vietnam! More than 3 million Vietnamese Catholics, accounting for about 4% of the total population, have great influence in politics, economy, culture and military diplomacy, affecting the political pattern and military trend of Vietnam today! The situation in Vietnam is similar to that in South Africa. In South Africa, where blacks are the majority, white people with a small population control the economic lifeline of South Africa and influence the political and military trend of South Africa. }