[Buddha-l] U.S. Buddhism

[Jackhat1 at aol.com]

What are your guesses about the breakdown for the different types within  
non-Asian Buddhists? From my limited experience, non-Asian Buddhists in the  US 
are 10% Tibetan, 45% Mahayana and 45% Thera. That's only from my own, limited  
experience.
 
Jack H
 
 
In a message dated 7/15/2008 11:34:06 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
curt at cola.iges.org writes:

"The  U.S. State Department's International Religious Freedom Report for 
2004  indicates that 2% of the U.S. population is Buddhist, which would 
mean a  total of 5,973,446 Buddhists. Other estimates, perhaps relying on 
a  greater degree of intuition, are larger: in the 1990s, Robert A. F.  
Thurman stated his opinion that there were 5 to 6 million Buddhists in  
America, and others might speculate there are more. Whatever the total  
number, it appears that roughly 75 to 80 percent of Buddhists in the  
U.S. are of Asian descent and inherited Buddhism as a family tradition;  
the remaining 20 to 25 percent are  non-Asians."





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