[Buddha-l] Buddhism,the second largest religion in the world

[jkirk]

China and North Korea. ?????? Didn't you mean South Korea?
Joanna
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From: "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
To: "Buddhist discussion forum" <buddha-l at mailman.swcp.com>
Sent: Friday, March 02, 2007 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] Buddhism,the second largest religion in the world


> On Thursday 01 March 2007 23:07, L.S. Cousins wrote:
>
>> If you look up the source, you find that David B. Barrett works at
>> the World Evangelization Research Center, Richmond, Virginia.
>> That speaks for itself.
>
> Maybe it speaks, but not in a way that I can hear. Could you explain what 
> it
> says to you?
>
>> But of course, the crunch question is always China. We have no
>> reliable figures from inside Mainland China, but that means we have
>> to use Census and other figures from Taiwan and Singapore. That
>> produces vastly higher figures for those who in a Census claim to be
>> Buddhist. This is an honest way to calculate.
>
> The only honest way to calculate, I think, is to admit from the outset 
> that we
> have no idea how many Buddhists there are in China and North Korea. ...