On the one hand there are numbers. On the other hand, empirical observation by those who travel Asia and study the phenomenon on the ground. In the middle appears a 2500-year-old religion whose contemporary evolution is much more complex than the polls suggest. Buddhism is the only one of the great world religions whose total population would be decreasing. That was the conclusion of the Pew Research Center, which published its global estimates:…
On the one hand there are numbers. On the other hand, empirical observation by those who travel Asia and study the phenomenon on the ground. In the middle appears a 2500-year-old religion whose contemporary evolution is much more complex than the polls suggest. Buddhism is the only one of the great world religions whose total population would be decreasing. That was the conclusion of the Pew Research Center, which published its global estimates:…