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Não se esqueça da inevitabilidade da morte. 「莫忘死之必然」 Do not forget the inevitability of death.

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कश्मीर यूनिवर्सिटी से जुड़े पुरातत्वविद बारामूला ज़िले के ज़ेहनपुरा गांव में खुदाई कर रहे हैं. इस जगह को कश्मीर में मिली बौद्ध धर्म से जुड़ी अब तक की सबसे बड़ी जगहों में से एक बताया जा रहा है. यहां अब तक एक स्तूप और मठ जैसी संरचनाओं के अवशेष मिले हैं, जो उस समय की ओर इशारा करते हैं, जब कश्मीर में बौद्ध धर्म फला-फूला था. रिपोर्ट: जहांगीर अली शूट और ए़डिट: शबीर भट
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USAID engaged in election interference and regime change around the world, causing massive strife
Here’s a shocking statistic you may not know. USAID more than doubled its spending on Brazil as soon Bolsonaro won their 2018 election. This was not because Brazil suddenly needed twice the aid. The money was spent on projects in Brazil to undermine Bolsonaro.
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Abandon clinging to the attraction of pleasant experiences. Abandon clinging to the aversion of painful experiences.
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Regularnie repostują mnie tu Elon Musk i Javier Milei. Tym razem obydwaj naraz👇🏻 Najpotężniejszy obecnie człowiek naszej cywilizacji i wolnościowy prezydent Argentyny – a oprócz nich kompletnie nikt znaczący. W Europie i w Polsce cisza. Dziesiątki tysięcy anonimowych ludzi, uznanie przez zaprzyjaźnionych wolnościowców (Brivael już inaczej niż poniżej się do mnie nie odnosi:), miliony odsłon – ale z Europy żaden "przywódca" się nie zająknie. W Polsce wszyscy udają że nie widzą… Zastanówmy się o czym to świadczy – co to nam o nich mówi… Musk i Milei repostują, bo rozpoznają argument. Bo sami myślą w tych kategoriach, bo te idee są dla nich żywe, realne i ważne. Repostują bo prawda ich przyciąga – to ich naturalny odruch. Oni dwaj i nikt inny – to nie przypadek – po prostu nie ma nikogo innego… Europejscy i polscy "przywódcy" milczą z dokładnie tego samego powodu. Rozpoznają argument. I wiedzą, że jest niebezpieczny – dla nich. Bo to nie jest kwestia tego, że nie widzą. Widzą doskonale. Ci ludzie mają zespoły od monitoringu mediów, a znaczący ideowy repost od Muska to nie jest coś, co umyka. O nie… Gramsci, Spinelli, długi marsz przez instytucje, systemowe kłamstwo – to nie są dla nich abstrakcje. To jest powietrze, którym oddychają. Woda, w której pływają. System, który ich wyprodukował, który ich wybrał, który im dał ich pozycje. Nie milczą z ignorancji. Milczą z interesu. To jest właśnie to, o czym piszę od miesięcy. Rotacja elit jeszcze się w Europie nie dokonała. Stare elity trzymają się mocno – instytucje, media, nagrody, finansowanie, cały aparat Gramsciego pracuje pełną parą. Musk i Milei wyrwali się z tego systemu lub nigdy do niego nie należeli. Europejscy politycy są jego produktem. Dlatego cisza w Europie nie jest zaskakująca. Jest informacją. Mówi nam dokładnie to, co powinniśmy wiedzieć o tych ludziach: że rozumieją co piszemy, że wiedzą iż mamy rację – i że właśnie dlatego nie powiedzą o tym ani słowa. Zakłamanie nie jest brakiem wiedzy. Jest wiedzą połączoną z wyborem milczenia. I to świadczy o czymś bardzo brzydkim: o kalkulacji. Zgodzić się publicznie z tekstem o Gramscim nic nie daje, a kosztować może wszystko – zaproszenia, stanowiska, przychylność redakcji, spokój. Milczenie jest darmowe. To dokładnie ta premia za obłudę, którą opisuję od miesięcy – tylko tym razem widoczna na naszym własnym przykładzie. I to jest właśnie test, o którym pisałem przy okazji nawigatorów. Musk i Milei mają jedną wspólną cechę: nie muszą pytać salonu o zdanie. Reszta musi – i dlatego reszta milczy. Nie brakuje im inteligencji. Brakuje im niezależności, a bez niej odwaga jest technicznie niemożliwa. Co nam to jeszcze mówi o europejskich elitach? Klasa, która nie potrafi publicznie przyznać racji tekstowi, z którym prywatnie pewnie się zgadza, nie jest elitą – jest układem. Elita mówi. Układ czeka, aż będzie bezpiecznie. A w Polsce? W Polsce to jeszcze prostsze. Uznanie z zagranicy dla kogoś spoza układu jest problemem, nie powodem do dumy – bo podważa hierarchię, w której to oni rozdają uznanie. Ale jest w tym dobra wiadomość, i to poważna. Dziesiątki tysięcy anonimowych ludzi i dwóch najbardziej wpływowych wolnościowców świata – to jest właśnie drugi obieg. Tak on zawsze wyglądał: bez oficjalnych nazwisk, bez błogosławieństwa salonu, za to z czytelnikami, których nikt nie musiał zapraszać. Kiedyś przyjdą i oni. Zawsze przychodzą – dokładnie w momencie, w którym zgoda przestaje kosztować… I wtedy będziemy pamiętać, kto był wcześniej.
I confirm great post, @Kristof_Poland is a genius! Follow him!
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BREAKING: Ven. Jinwoo, the incumbent Chief Executive Director has been re-elected to lead Jogye Order, the first successful re-election in 13 years. "I will devote all my strength to opening a new century for Korean Buddhism by making the monastic community more confident, the order more stable, and Buddhism younger and more dynamic." says Ven. Jinwoo I think this is a great, wise choice by the Korean Buddhist order as clearly, something has worked in the resurgence of Buddhism in the country and a strong consistent progress of this direction should be solidify and stability is of the utmost importance! May these 4 years bring fruitful outcome and the light of Buddha continues to shine in South Korea and beyond.
The Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism is having an election for its Chief Executive Director tomorrow. Buddhist temples under Jogye order has grown from 3,100+ to approximately 3,500 from 2019 to 2026 while monastics have declined slightly from 13,000 to 12,000. As Korean Buddhism is experiencing an unprecendented resurgence, I pray to the Triple Gems to inspire the new leadership to strengthened Buddhism in the coming years. Multiple candidates are expected to compete for the top leadership, a rare sight not seen since 2017. The new term will begin on 28th September, lasting a total of 4 years.
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China is seeking to eliminate Tibetan identity. This is “genocide” as that term is defined in the Genocide Convention of 1948.
China has launched a new wave of demolitions at Larung Gar, the world’s largest Tibetan Buddhist institute. Over 1,000 monastic homes are targeted, continuing the assault on Tibetan religious freedom & culture. #LarungGar #Tibet #TibetanBuddhism
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New Free eBook Release! 📖 Explore “Points of Instructions on the Seven-Line Prayer” by Khenpo Sodargye Rinpoche. Discover the spiritual “password” to Guru Padmasambhava’s blessings, overcome modern obstacles, and stabilize your meditation practice. 👇 Download link in the reply.
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Summing up the fundamental teaching of Buddhism, it is the sublime mind of compassion that matters most. The essence of Buddhism is the sublime compassionate mind. For anyone who possesses such a mind, he or she has reached a high-level state of realization. #KhenpoSodargye
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Did you know that The Lord of the Rings was about communism? (Maybe when you come from Poland, every evil looks like communism to you…:) 1. The Ring is not a weapon. It is the totalitarian temptation itself – the promise that this time, the right person wielding absolute power will finally produce the good outcome. Even heroes in the book are tempted by this argument. Gandalf refuses it, Aragorn refuses it, but it is the most seductive argument in politics. It is always wrong. 2. The Shire is where the story begins and where it must return. Hobbits grow their own food, smoke their own pipe-weed, own their gardens, and nobody tells them what a second breakfast should look like. This is not naivety – it is civilization at its most honest. Which is precisely why the system cannot leave it alone. 3. The Eye sees everything – not because it is omnipotent, but because enough servants are watching on its behalf. The Nazgûl are the secret police: former kings, once free and powerful, who accepted rings of power and became hollow enforcers. They did not fall suddenly. Each one made a reasonable accommodation, then another, until nothing remained inside the armor. The surveillance state does not need cameras everywhere. It needs people who have already sold themselves, and have nothing left to lose by selling others. 4. Saruman is the most sinister villain in the book – the brilliant intellectual who studied power so long and so closely that he decided he might as well have some. The collaborator. The man who convinced himself that managing the evil was smarter than opposing it, and ended up running a small franchise of it in the Shire. 5. The Shire gets collectivized. This is the chapter Western readers most want to skip – because it means that ignoring the darkness while it was distant did not protect the things that were close and dear. It came home anyway, wearing the face of bureaucratic administration: no private gardens, no excess, enforced sharing, small men with clipboards and new rules. Sharkey — the defeated Saruman — cannot create anything anymore. He can only administrate, regulate, and ruin. This is what the system looks like when it has already lost everywhere else. 6. Gollum is what the system produces when it finds someone useful. He serves the Ring completely, calls it his precious, and has long since forgotten what he was before it. He is not evil – he is consumed. The system doesn’t need to destroy you. It just needs you to need it more than you need yourself. 7. The Ring must be destroyed, not used. Not reformed, not redirected, not wielded by a better person for better ends. This is Tolkien’s most radical political statement: some instruments of total power cannot be turned to good purposes. They must be unmade. Every generation has to rediscover this, because the argument for just one more ring, in the right hands, for the right reasons, never stops sounding reasonable to some people…
The Brave New World made simple: 1. The World State’s motto is Community, Identity, Stability. These words are lies. There is no community – only interchangeable units. No identity – it is assigned before birth and conditioned before thought. Stability is the only honest word, because stability is the only actual goal, and everything else was sacrificed to achieve it. 2. Mustapha Mond, the Controller, has read Shakespeare. He has read the Bible. He has read everything that was ever great or true or painful about being human – and he locked it in a safe and runs the system anyway. He is not a true believer. He is the man who knows exactly what he buried and considers it a reasonable trade. He is the fattest pig, with better manners and a longer bookshelf. 3. The conditioning doesn’t break you. It makes you enjoy your cage. This is the upgrade from every previous tyranny – you don’t need guards if the prisoner has been engineered, from conception, to find the cell comfortable. Soma — the drug that makes obedience pleasant — is just the maintenance dose. The real work was done before anyone was born. 4. “Everyone belongs to everyone else” – the most totalitarian sentence ever dressed as liberation. It does not mean you are free to love everyone. It means you are forbidden to love anyone in particular. Depth, loyalty, grief, true love — all the things that make a person irreplaceable to another person — are the first things the system removes, because they are the first things that would make you resist it. 5. The man born outside the system — the Savage — asks for the right to be unhappy. To be cold, dirty, afraid, and alive in the full sense. Mond grants him, graciously, that the right exists – and explains, patiently, why no one wants it anymore. This is presented as a debate. It is not a debate. It is a man explaining to a relic why relics are no longer made. 6. Bernard Marx, Helmholtz Watson, the Savage – all three feel that something is missing. None of them can fully name it. This is precise: the system doesn’t suppress the hunger, it removes the vocabulary for it. You cannot demand what you cannot describe. You cannot mourn what you have been engineered not to know you lost. 7. Huxley’s message: Orwell feared they would ban the books. Huxley feared no one would want to read them. The boot on the face is easy to recognize and resist. The silly entertainment — the soma tablet, the orgy-porgy, the centrifugal bumble-puppy — these are harder, because they feel like enough, and by the time they don’t, you no longer have the words for what’s missing. The most complete tyranny is the one that makes abolishing itself unthinkable. Not forbidden. Unthinkable. "You will own nothing and be happy"
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In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work. He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in. Two years later, it was over. 🧵
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Animal Farm by George Orwell, in short: 1. Old Major, the fattest pig on the farm, delivers a sermon about "liberation." He has never missed a meal in his life – but he is the most envious of the Man – the producer, the entrepreneur… 2. “Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy” – the ideology is manufactured from the start, designed not to free the animals but to direct their resentment away from the pigs and toward a useful target. Every revolution needs an enemy. The pigs chose the farmer. 3. The revolution’s commandments were never a constitution. They were a management tool – sacred enough to motivate, vague enough to rewrite, and controlled from the beginning by the only ones who could read – the pigs. 4. Boxer the horse, the most honest creature on the farm, decent, loyal yet naive, totally devoted, responds to every setback with the same answer: “I will work harder!” He means it completely. He works himself half to death. It is the most heartbreaking sentence in the book – because the new system is perfectly designed to absorb exactly that kind of devotion and give nothing back. When he finally collapses from exhaustion, he is sold to the knacker. For cash. The pigs buy more whisky with the proceeds. The other animals are told he died in a hospital receiving the best care. The most useful animal on the farm is the one who never once suspects he is the product. 5. The commandments get rewritten at night not because power corrupted the revolution – the rewriting was always the plan. Language was the weapon from the first speech Old Major ever gave. 6. “All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others” – this is not the system’s failure. It is the system’s true face, finally visible once the animals are too exhausted and confused to object. 7. Orwell’s message: the lie came first. And the "liberation" it promised delivered something far worse than what came before – because the fattest pig was merely selfish at the start, but by the end is selfish and fluent in the language of "justice." He took all the eggs. He took everything. And made the hens thank him for it. The fattest pig knew what he was doing all along…
Atlas Shrugged made simple: 1. Society runs on a small number of highly capable producers – industrialists, inventors, engineers – whose work everyone depends on but takes for granted. 2. The system starts rewarding need over achievement: the more capable you are, the more you’re expected to sacrifice for those who aren’t. 3. Success gets treated like a debt – taxed, regulated, resented – until the most capable start asking why they bother trying at all. 4. One by one, led by a man named John Galt, they simply withdraw – walking away rather than keep propping up a system that punishes them for producing. 5. Without them, the whole structure collapses, revealing that the “automatic” prosperity everyone assumed was actually being generated by specific, irreplaceable people. 6. Atlas is the Titan from Greek myth, condemned to carry the sky on his shoulders forever – Rand’s stand-in for the producer class, holding up civilization while getting blamed for it. 7. “Shrugged” is the whole argument in one word: Atlas doesn’t fight, doesn’t protest – he just quietly sets the weight down. Nobody realized the sky was being held up by anyone in particular, until the day it isn’t. You don’t want us? We just go…🤷🏻‍♂️
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As an Iranian, it was heartbreaking for me to watch a press conference with over 150 journalists and not a single one showed interest in asking about what is happening in Iran. Not one question about the January massacre. Not one question about the pressure people are facing right now. At least 42,000 people have been brutally killed in the streets. The wounded have been hunted down. People have been executed simply for demanding their basic human rights and more are at risk. I believed journalists would seize such moments to seek the truth and be the voice of innocent people. But shockingly, not one of them asked. A nurse was killed in her own home simply for treating wounded protesters, right in front of her husband. And even after her death, the cruelty did not end. Her body was taken, sexually assaulted and tapped to send to her husband. Her husband was subjected to unimaginable trauma; so much so that he could not bear it and attempted to take his own life. This was said in the conference. And still no one asked. No one followed up. No one cared enough. This should have shaken the conscience of the world. But instead, there is silence. I ask the people of the free world: why? Even for a moment, put yourselves in our place. Try to understand what is happening to us. #IranMassacre‌
Whether or not Europe stands with us, whether or not your journalists do their jobs, whether or not your politicians demonstrate the courage to act, I will fight for my people and my country.
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🙋‍♀️Hello - Iranian here. For those fixated on 'legality' to excuse the regime in Iran - F*ck You. No, I will not let you be my voice. You don't get to narrate my story, you don't get to claim moral superiority. You don't get to tell me my feelings are wrong. Is it legal to throw women in prison for strands of hair? Is it legal to mass execute people? Is it legal to turn a fertile land into a parched desert? Is it legal to rape? Is it legal to shoot innocent people? Is it legal to kill children? Is it legal to torture people to death? Is it legal to spread terrorism? Is it legal to deprive people of a livelihood? Is it legal to shoot people in the eye to blind them? Is it legal to silence people and take away all of their human rights? Is it legal to shoot down a passenger plane? Is it legal to drive millions to leave their country? Is it legal to jail women for singing and dancing? Is it legal to disappear people including children? You will never experience anything like Iranians have experienced for the last 47 years. Iranians have fought barehanded and they've paid a price. All up to 1,000,000 (one million) Iranians have been murdered since the regime came to power. Your books on 'civil disobedience' and 'collective protest' are useless against an armed opposition that is ideologically driven and will kill all that stand in its way. You want legality? The world has a duty to protect innocent lives. It's enshrined in R2P. Some people seem to think Iranians aren't humans. The murder, genocide and massacre of Iranians receives scant media attention - hence scant sympathy. Those who proclaim to care about 'human rights' must think Iranians are animals and not worthy. Their hatred of Israel and US is so great they've lost all perspective. Yes, Iranians are happy. They're happy someone took out Ali Khamenei and many others directly responsible for so much pain and agony. And you know what? We're unashamedly hopeful that with the help of the world's superpower, we can reclaim our country and build a better tomorrow. We know there's a long way to go, but give us this brief moment of reprieve, because daily we sit and try to tell the story of the lives lost, those at risk of execution, those under torture. We've seen the pictures and videos of massacres taking place. Our dance and happiness comes with a heavy weight. We do so, in knowledge of the many who never lived to see this day. The day of freedom will come to Iran, it's glorious - and we're not sorry if some outside help contributed to making that happen. So don't speak on my behalf and stop excusing this regime on grounds of 'anti-colonialism'. and 'anti-Zionism'. #Iran
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The bravery of these people is astounding. They're light in what lately has felt like a very dark world.
The Lion of Iran has awakened. Iranians are rejecting Islam, the Islamic Republic, and Sharia Law en masse. I've never been more proud to be Iranian. ❤️
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Our history will be written in golden words about Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji's efforts in spreading the message of Lord Buddha globally. #Modi Ji has also successfully retrieved and repatriated record 642 ancient Indian antiquities & relics. My heart swells with pride to see the revival of India's ancient wisdom and heritage. After the great Emperor Ashoka (Mauryan Empire), Bimbisara & Ajatshatru (Haryanka), Kanishka (Kushan Empire), Dharmapala and Devapala (Pala Emperors), Chandragupta-ll (Gupta Empire), The Pithipatis of Magadha, Harsha Vardhan (Pushyabhuti Dynasty) and many Indian rulers who embraced Buddhism and promoted both Buddhism and Hinduism together, now once again it's proud moment for we all Indians that Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji is leading from the front and says, India gave Buddha to the world! The return of the sacred Piprahwa relics after 127 years stands as a powerful example of governance guided by responsibility and long-term vision. From diplomacy & legal action to scientific verification & public-private collaboration, every step ensured these relics were duly honoured as sacred heritage. #BhagwanBuddha #BuddhaRelics
The return of the sacred Piprahwa relics after 127 years stands as a powerful example of governance guided by responsibility & long-term vision. From diplomacy & legal action to scientific verification & public-private collaboration, every step ensured these relics were honoured as sacred heritage. #BhagwanBuddha #BuddhaRelics
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A celebration of our rich heritage. 🙏 The Grand International Exposition of the Sacred Piprahwa Relics related to Bhagwan Buddha will honour him and his timeless teachings. It also reflects the Modi Government's continued commitment to promoting ideals of Bhagwan Buddha and reinforcing Bharat's cultural ethos.
Tomorrow, 3rd January, is a very special day for those passionate about history, culture and the ideals of Bhagwan Buddha. At 11 AM, the Grand International Exposition of Sacred Piprahwa Relics related to Bhagwan Buddha, ‘The Light & the Lotus: Relics of the Awakened One’, will be inaugurated at Rai Pithora Cultural Complex in Delhi. This Exposition brings together: The Piprahwa relics repatriated after more than a century. Authentic relics and archaeological materials from Piprahwa that are preserved in the collections of the National Museum, New Delhi and the Indian Museum, Kolkata.
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They weaponize your empathy against you
Leftists use pathos to override logos in order to push their activism. The “pity play” is a common form of this. It disarms you by flooding you with pity, guilt, & moral urgency so your judgment and discernment never gets a chance. Cue the crying child, or the one-sided history. Then comes the demand: accept the leftist moral frame and the activism that follows. If you resist, the label is not just an insult. It’s a social activation switch, greenlighting attacks on you: “racist,” “hateful.” The point is to mobilize bystanders, raise the social cost of saying no, and make you the example so others learn that compliance is the price of staying “decent.”
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Samtan Dolma 桑丹卓瑪 བསམ་གཏན་སྒྲོལ་མ། retweeted
Bingo. The problem is that massive transfers from productive members of society via taxation enable the vast staff of elite universities to enjoy the benefits of capitalism while living under the illusion of communism.
To paraphrase the late Charlie Munger... There are only two places in the world where they haven't lost the pure faith in Communism: North Korea and the English department at Yale.
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Samtan Dolma 桑丹卓瑪 བསམ་གཏན་སྒྲོལ་མ། retweeted
Yup
Remember that 𝕏 was the only platform that refused the secret censorship deal the EU offered while other platforms accepted it.
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Samtan Dolma 桑丹卓瑪 བསམ་གཏན་སྒྲོལ་མ། retweeted
I came across the “H1 Dharma Talk Grand Prix 2025” in Japan, an interesting competition sent by a Buddhist priest friend of mine and honestly, I’m amazed. I didn’t expect to see such a lively, organized, and public platform for spreading the Buddha-Dharma in modern Japan. Eight speakers, multiple Buddhist traditions, official judges, media announcers, YouTubers collaborating to encourage priests to learn, preach, and share the Dharma. Missionary-style activities in Japan are very much alive. “I love Dharma sermons!! I love Buddhism!!” said one of the emcee of the event with the backdrop reading 释迦如来 Sakyamuni Buddha in Kanji. The champion was won by a priest of the Rinzai sect and the runner up goes to Jodo Shinshu sect. I wish more regions would revive this spirit and I'm glad Japan is taking the lead amidst so much threats from the other religions.
Japan IS a Buddhist Country! Buddhists have increased from 70.8 millions to 81 millions in the latest Reiwa 6th year census, this is a jump of 10 MILLIONS, that's 8.3x the total Christian population in the country. Meanwhile after its decline from 1.9 million to 1.2 million, the Christians maintain the same amount of adherents. Members of other religions have decreased from 7 million to 6 million-ish Here's the full statistics 2023 Reiwa 05 to 2024 Reiwa 06 (65% Buddhists) ⏫ Buddhists: 70,759,447 to 81,069,419 (+10,309,972) 🔽Buddhist Organizations: 84513 to 84394 (-119) ⏫ Buddhist Priests/Monastics: 339,678 to 348,804 (+9126) Interesting to note that while some temples and centres have closed down, a common trend across all religions in Japan, the number of Buddhist teachers, priests and monastics have increased by 9000++
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