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Buddhism is a minor religion in the Philippines.A recent nation-wide census in 2020 showed that the number of Buddhists in the country was at 39,158 adherents out of the 112.2 million Philippine population or roughly 0.03% of the national population, the lowest in Southeast Asia.
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Some sub-schools, such as the Kukkuṭikas, did not accept the Mahayana sutras as being word of the Buddha, whole others, like the Lokottaravādins, did accept them. [29] Although there are differences in the historical records as to the exact composition of the various schools of early Buddhism, a hypothetical combined list would be as follows:
Buddhism is the majority religion in Cambodia, Japan, Myanmar, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Laos, and Mongolia. It is also the most followed religion in certain nations or territories without any majority religion, such as Mainland China , Hong Kong , [ 4 ] Macau , [ 5 ] [ 2 ] Singapore , [ 6 ] Taiwan , Vietnam , [ 7 ] and Kalmykia in Russia .
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'School of the Elders'; Chinese: 上座部佛教; Vietnamese: Thượng tọa bộ) [1] [2] is the most commonly accepted name of Buddhism's oldest existing school. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The school's adherents, termed Theravādins ( anglicized from Pali theravādī ), [ 3 ] [ 4 ] have preserved their version of Gautama Buddha 's teaching or Dhamma in the ...
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