It is unkown how many Taoists in China, but there are about 4.5 million Taiwan (which makes it the second largest religion), and a few tens of thousands in the Americas. It is also the fourth largest religion in Singapore (8.5% of the population), if one excludes the non-religious.
Some estimates place the number of Taoists in China at 20 million, others at 80 million.
Followers of Buddhism and Chinese traditional religion in general where shown to be at around 200 million by a recent survey. Other sources indicate that the number of Buddhists in China is 100 million, so it's likely that most of the 100 million is Taoist.
Taoism also has a large cultural influence on China and other countries that it used to have a presence in.
Taoism has a small presence in the Chinese diaspora (more common in the diaspora are Buddhism, non-religion and Christianity).
There are also some Taoists in South Korea. The number of Chinese traditional religious is possibly an undercount, since many Chinese feel uncomfortable discussing their religion with people in public, perhaps even up to 20%.
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Today, Buddhism is probably least evident in many of the Muslim nations. Countries like Saudi Arabia, outlaw any religion other than Islam.
Effect of Hinduism on Buddhism changed Buddhism to some extent. Also abduction of Tibet by china & destruction of Buddhist ancient buildings led to important changes.
There are 2.7 million Shinto followers in the world today. : ) Technicaly there is 2. 9 million because most people that follow shintoism are also buddist. {-_-} (_@_)
Asoka, the emperor of India, was the cause; because he was a faithful Buddhist, so he tried to spread the Buddhism to the world, and he did. By using his empire's influence, Buddhism was spread to Southern Asia and today's middle east; few hundred years after he died, Buddhism was introduced to China in Eastern Han dynasty
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6 million
Buddhism evolved by that buddha shared his knowledge around Asia and the followers decided to become Buddhism. Today in 2012 there are not many people that believe in Buddha.
Buddhism has about 365 million followers at the moment.
Buddhism has about 365 million followers at the moment.
6 and a half
the followers of Buddhism are buddhists
Buddhism. Simple as that. But the term Buddhism and Buddhists was coined by early English visitors to India. Originally followers of the Buddha referred to themselves as Saugata, Sakyans or Sakyabhiksu in ancient India.
They have 10,00 followers today.
Buddhists.
there are currenlty over a billion followers of Hinduism. While & % of world's population is following Buddhism.
Followers of the Buddha are called Buddhists.
A Buddhist