Buddhists accounted for about 4.1% of the global population in 2020, according to the Pew Research Center. Between 2010 and 2020, the global Buddhist population declined by roughly 5%, from around 343 ...

Lack of institutional sympathy over the centuries, especially at the elite level, may explain why it entered the modern era with relatively little gas in the tank. A century ago, many reports alleged ...

Throughout this report, religious switching refers to a change between the religious group in which a person says they were raised (during their childhood) and their religious identity now (in ...

Buddhists are the world’s only major religious group whose population shrank between 2010 and 2020, according to a recent Pew Research Center analysis of religion in 201 countries and territories. In ...

When you think of Buddhism in the Bay Area, you might think of hippies, mindfulness and “finding inner peace.” But that is not an accurate depiction of the breadth of history, knowledge and culture ...

NEW YORK (RNS) — The Young Buddhist Initiative describes itself as bringing Buddhist traditions into the modern world in a way that it hopes will suit contemporary — particularly younger — lives. NEW ...