BUDDHISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

  By Thich Nguyen Tang

2,500 years after I have passed away into Nirvana, the Highest Doctrine will become spread in the country of the red-faced people. 

BUDDHA

The Religion of the future will be a cosmic. If should transcend a personal God and avoid dogmas and theology. Covering both the natural and the spiritual, it should be based on a religion sense arising from the experience of all things, natural and spiritual, as a meaningsful unity. Buddhism answers this description 
 
 ALBERT EINSTEIN

If there is any religion that would cope with modern scientific need, it would be Buddhism. 

ALBERT EINSTEIN

 

 

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BUDDHISM THROUGHOUT THE WORLD

Author ‘s Note

Introduction

Preface

CHAPTER I 

BUDDHISM

ú Sakya Muni Buddha, the founder of Buddhism 

ú His Teachings 

ú The Orthodox Buddhism 

ú The Theravada Buddhism 

ú The Mahayana Buddhism 

ú The meaning of Orthodox in Buddhism: A Protest 

ú The Concept of Freedom in the Paøli Cannon 

ú The Fundamental Principles of Mahayanism 

ú Buddhism in India through past eras 

ú Buddhism in India at the present 

ú Buddhism Trends and Perspectives in Asia 
 
 
 
 

CHAPTER I 

BUDDHISM IN ASIA
 
 

ú Buddhism in Sri Lanka 

ú Buddhism in Myanmar 

ú Buddhism in Combodia 

ú Buddhism in Laos 

ú Buddhism in Thailand 

ú Buddhism in China 

ú Buddhism in Tibet 

ú Buddhism in Vietnam 

ú Buddhism in Mongolia 

ú Buddhism in Korea 

ú Buddhism in Japan 

ú Buddhism in Nepal 

ú Buddhism in Indonesia 

ú Buddhism in Malaysia 

ú Buddhism in Bangladesh 

ú Buddhism in Afghanistan 

ú Buddhism in Singapore 

ú Buddhism in Brunei 

ú Buddhism in Bhutan 

ú Buddhism in Iran 

ú Buddhism in Iraq 

ú Buddhism in Palestine 

ú Buddhism in Israel 

ú Buddhism in Egypt 

ú Buddhism in the Philippines 

ú Buddhism in Pakistan 

ú Buddhism in Taiwan 

ú Buddhism in Hongkong 
 
 
 
 

CHAPTER III 

BUDDHISM IN AUSTRALIA

ú Buddhism in Australia 

ú Buddhism in New Zealand 

ú Buddhism in Tonga 

ú Buddhism in Tuvalu 

ú Buddhism in Vanuatu 

ú Buddhism in Fiji 

ú Buddhism in Nauru 

ú Buddhism in Kiribati 
 
 

CHAPTER IV 

BUDDHISM IN AMERICA
 
 

· BUDDHISM IN North America 

ú Buddhism in the United States of America 

ú Buddhism in Canada 

ú Buddhism in Mexico 
 
 

· BUDDHISM IN CENTRAL AMERICA & SOUTH AMERICA 

ú Buddhism in Argentina 

ú Buddhism in Brazil 

ú Buddhism in Colombia 

ú Buddhism in Cuba 

ú Buddhism in Costa Rica 

ú Buddhism in Dominique 

ú Buddhism in Haiti 

ú Buddhism in Honduras 

ú Buddhism in Nicaragua 

ú Buddhism in Martinique 

ú Buddhism in Panama 

ú Buddhism in Paraguay 

ú Buddhism in Peru 

ú Buddhism in Puerto Rico 

ú Buddhism in El Salvador 

ú Buddhism in Uruguay 

ú Buddhism in Surinam 
 
 

CHAPTER V 

BUDDHISM IN EUROPE

ú Buddhism in England 

ú Buddhism in Austria 

ú Buddhism in Belgium 

ú Buddhism in Bulgaria 

ú Buddhism in Portugal 

ú Buddhism in Denmark 

ú Buddhism in Germany 

ú Buddhism in Spain 

ú Buddhism in Turkey 

ú Buddhism in Poland 

ú Buddhism in Netherlands (Holland) 

ú Buddhism in Finland 

ú Buddhism in France 

ú Buddhism in Hungary 

ú Buddhism in Greece 

ú Buddhism in North Iceland 

ú Buddhism in Scotland 

ú Buddhism in Italy 

ú Buddhism in Luxembourg 

ú Buddhism in Monaco 

ú Buddhism in Norway 

ú Buddhism in Romania 

ú Buddhism in Sweden 

ú Buddhism in Switzerland 

ú Buddhism in Yugoslavia 

ú Buddhism in Czechoslovakia 

ú Buddhism in Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (old) 
 
 

CHAPTER VI 

BUDDHISM IN AFRICA

ú Buddhism in South Africa 

ú Buddhism in Angola 

ú Buddhism in Benin 

ú Buddhism in Botswana 

ú Buddhism in Burkina 

ú Buddhism in Burundi 

ú Buddhism in Cameroon 

ú Buddhism in Central Africa 

ú Buddhism in Congo 

ú Buddhism in Kenya 

ú Buddhism in Liberia 

ú Buddhism in Nigeria 

ú Buddhism in Mozambique 

ú Buddhism in Rwanda 

ú Buddhism in Somalia 
 
 
 

CHAPTER VII 

INTERNATIONAL BUDDHIST ASSOCIATIONS

ú The World Buddhist Sangha Council 

ú Maha Bodhi Society of India 

ú The World Fellowship of Buddhists 

ú The World Fellowship of Buddhists Youth 

ú The Pali Text Society 

ú The Foundation for the Preservation of the Mahayana 

ú The Lay Buddhist Association Risho Kosei-Kai 

ú The Asia Buddhist Conference for Peace 

ú The International Network of Engaged Buddhists 
 
 
 

CHAPTER VIII 

SOME FAMOUS BUDDHIST

PROPAGATORS IN THE WORLD

 

ú Sariputta 

ú Punna 

ú Kumarajiva 

ú King Asoka 

ú Bodhidharma 

ú Uttara & Sona 

ú Vinitaruchi 

ú Nichiren 

ú King Tran Nhan Tong 

ú D.T. Suzuki 

ú Henry Steel Olcott 

ú Paul Carus 

ú Ven. Thich Thien An 

ú Ven. Tuyen Hoa 

ú His Holiness Dalai Lama 

ú Ven. Master Hisng Yun 

ú Ven. Thich Nhat Hanh 

ú Ven. Thich Minh Chau 
 
 
 

CHAPTER IX 

SUMING UP & CONCLUDING

ú The road and the way of propagation of the Dharma of Buddhism. 

ú The concept of Buddhism to other world religions. 

ú Buddhism and other cultures and politics in the world 

ú Some opinions on the re-establish ment of the World Buddhist Sangha 

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