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The Number of Buddhists Worldwide
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The are 200-500 million estimated Buddhists in the world (6% of the world's population).
This makes Buddhism the world's fourth largest religion.
The Buddhist Flag
Blue
(Nila):
Loving kindness, peace and universal compassion.
Yellow
(Pita):
The Middle Path - avoiding extremes, emptiness
.
Red
(Lohita):
The blessings of practice - achievement, wisdom, virtue, fortune and dignity.
White
(Odata):
The purity of Dharma - leading to liberation, outside of time and space
Orange
(Manjesta):
The Buddha's teachings - wisdom
Works Cited
Statistics on Buddhists
. N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec 2011.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bstatt10.htm
"symbols/iconography." . N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec 2011.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/b_flag.htm
"Statistics on Buddhists." . N.p., n.d. Web. 12 Dec 2011.
http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/history/bud_statwrld.htm
Have you ever met a Tibetan (High Quality) youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=htHEv7EgBXw
Tibetan National Anthem youtube video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMF9_V2rUtQ&feature=related