Contemporary Buddhism: Peak Christian mission of Revival · 2014. 11. 5. · October, 2014 European...
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Contemporary Buddhism: Peak
of Revival
Lewis Lancaster
Centre for Buddhist Studies
University of Hong Kong
October, 2014
European Colonial Opposition
• Christian mission
movement
Portugal Mission/Colonials Colonial 20th century
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Marxist Opposition
• Eastern Russia
• China
• Korea
• Vietnam
• Mongolia
• Tibet
Communist Rule
Buryat Republic Tuva
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Kalmykia Chita
Mongolia
• 1920 over 100,000
monks in 3000
monasteries
• 1940 100 monks in one
monastery
China
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Buddhist revival
• Role of population
demographics for future
growth
Buddhist countries
Thailand
• Birth rate per woman
• 1970 6
• 2013 1.6
Taiwan
• Buddhist monastics
• 1983 3,470
• 1995 9,300
• Buddhist monasteries
• 1983 1,157
• 1995 4,020
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Taiwan/ China China
Korea (South) Japan
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Vietnam India
“None”
• Declining support for
religion
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