A few questions for bawang

[David Jamieson]

I guess 100 million is "not many".

100 million practicing buddhists in China?

really?

[TenTigers]

There are some really good depictions of h3ll I know of,
but I would have to access my ex's facebook page, and I have no intention of friending her....

[lkfmdc]

There are some really good depictions of h3ll I know of,
but I would have to access my ex's facebook page, and I have no intention of friending her....

be sure to tip your waitress! Rik will be here all week!

[wenshu]

really?

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=china+religion

[lkfmdc]

Was pretty sure there were a lot more Islamic faith in China.....

[wenshu]

Was pretty sure there were a lot more Islamic faith in China.....

http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2010/148863.htm

According to the State Administration for Religious Affairs (SARA), there are more than 21 million Muslims in the country. Independent estimates range as high as 50 million or more.

They don't elaborate on what the sources are for the independent estimates.

[lkfmdc]

They don't elaborate on what the sources are for the independent estimates.

do you think there might be a political reason the Chinese government wants to low ball the figure on how many Muslims are in the country?

[wenshu]

Without a doubt.

They lowball the buddhists too, I've seen estimates closer to 200 million.

[lkfmdc]

I don't trust Chinese
I don't trust communists
I really don't trust Chinese communists

[Lucas]

[Razaunida]

Religious classification in China is pretty much BS.

Everyone is Chinese. This means that by default they are part Daoist/Buddhists. Many people say they are not religious, yet burn money for anscestors, go to a fortune teller to read their bazi and meditate or go to a temple when they are stressed.

Many are "atheists" yet claim there morality comes from family education. Where did this education come from? The temple. Westerners think more of religious lines as life or death, right and wrong, Chinese view them as schools of thought.

[LSWCTN1]

lets spell it out

"tai ji kuen"
"ping ji kuen"
"ting ji kuen"
"gok ji kuen"

"tai ping tin gok". the heavenly kingdom of jesus.

the chan family said in chinese interview chan heung was the chief instructor for the heavenly kingdom and personally instructed the southern heavenly king.

...or are you a manchu lover?

funnilyn enough, i saw evidence to back this up yesterday

This means that the Lo’s were serious practitioners in CLF to begin with, and even when GM Lo Chiu Woon was teaching in Hong Kong, his curriculum for the double sabre was “ Double Cross Sabre” (Cross as in Holy Cross in the Catholic/ Christian religion), and this was from CLF, at least what I was told when I visited one of Lo’s student’s class, a Sifu Kwok Chuen who was teaching an SWC class at that time

here
http://www.shaolinwengchun.info/foru...r=asc&start=12

The CLF comes from Har Pik Chi

[omarthefish]

Without a doubt.

They lowball the buddhists too, I've seen estimates closer to 200 million.

200 million only amounts to about 1.5% of the entire population. That sounds about right when you consider that the CIA factbook on China places Daoist, Christian and Buddhist combined at 3-4%.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/ch.html

Religions:
Field info displayed for all countries in alpha order.
Daoist (Taoist), Buddhist, Christian 3%-4%, Muslim 1%-2%
note: officially atheist (2002 est.)

So Darth is right in that, per capita, there really aren't that many Buddhists. People just tend to forget how many **** people there are out there. 5% of 1.3 billion is still 650 million religious types out there.

Note that I not taking my figures from Chinese sources. CIA factbook all the way.

[wenshu]

200 million only amounts to about 1.5% of the entire population. That sounds about right when you consider that the CIA factbook on China places Daoist, Christian and Buddhist combined at 3-4%.

https://www.cia.gov/library/publicat...k/geos/ch.html


So Darth is right in that, per capita, there really aren't that many Buddhists. People just tend to forget how many **** people there are out there. 5% of 1.3 billion is still 650 million religious types out there.

Note that I not taking my figures from Chinese sources. CIA factbook all the way.

Your point is?

Yes, relatively speaking, it is only a small fraction of the total population. I don't think anyone was under any misapprehension about that, but thanks for correcting it anyway.

200 million is still a sh*t load of people. Furthermore it accounts for, oh, about half of the percentage of total buddhists worldwide.

You realize that part of the CIA factbook figures most likely come from SARA right? The state dept.'s do.

Oh noes! PRC propaganda!

[bawang]

Religious classification in China is pretty much BS.

Everyone is Chinese. This means that by default they are part Daoist/Buddhists. Many people say they are not religious, yet burn money for anscestors, go to a fortune teller to read their bazi and meditate or go to a temple when they are stressed.

i follow the bear

he is strong