Buddhism in Modern World

Buddhism is a religion that teaches that the way to end pain is to overcome the desire. Like 2010, there are about 4.88 million Buddhists. Most Buddhists are concentrated in East Asia, but people living in Africa, Europe, North America, South America are also Buddhists. Buddhism began with the name Sakyamuni. It was also called Buddha, born in Nepal from 563 BC to 483 BC. In the history of Buddhism, Sakyamuni was born in the royal family, but in order to pursue truth and enlightenment he gave up his kingdom and wealth.

A very important part of Buddhism is meditation. In modern world, meditation is the most important thing in Buddhism. Buddhism emphasizes training and meditation (Eliade 371). Today, Buddhism's greatest denomination is Mahayana Buddhism, Buddhism is "the first emotion to other existence, express a strong desire to save all beings, share strength with them, Analysis involving fostering the presence reached the apex of the emptiness, but eventually they worked on these efforts to save others (Eliade 371).

If everyone is concerned about Chinese folk religion, Shintoism, Muslims and other East Asian religions, Buddhism can be said to be the world's largest religion a century ago. However, in modern times, Buddhism was particularly vulnerable to secularism and evangelism of other religions. According to a survey of Pew, the proportion of the original Buddhists and their believers, and the population of the world is expected to decrease only in the world's major religions (including Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Chinese folk religion) Has been done. The world Buddhist population is expected to decrease from 488 million to 486 million, accounting for 7% to 5% of the total population. Christianity and Muslims are still growing, especially by 2050, the latter will grow from 23% of the world population to 30%. In other words, the number of Muslims will be six times that of Buddhists.