" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.

The same restriction is also followed by lay Buddhists and is known as the consumption of the " triply clean meat " ( 三净肉 ).

Alcohol and other drugs are also avoided by many Buddhists because of their effects on the mind and " mindfulness ".

Some of these Buddhist vegetarian chefs are in the many monasteries which serve wu hun and mock-meat ( also known as ' meat analogues ') dishes to the monks and visitors ( including non-Buddhists who often stay for a few hours or days, to Buddhists who are not monks, but staying overnight for anywhere up to weeks or months ).

Polyandry ( especially fraternal polyandry ) is also common among Buddhists in Bhutan, Ladakh, and other parts of the Indian subcontinent.

There are also active communities of other religious groups, primarily on the mainland, such as Buddhists, Hindus, and Bahá ' ís.

There are also 110 Buddhists, 105 Sikhs, 60 Muslims, and 30 Jews.

It is also discouraged among some Buddhists.

Devout Buddhists also vie with one another to provide refreshments and vegetarian food to followers who visit the temple to pay homage to the Enlightened One.

The state-administered Buddhist Association of China also began issuing criticisms of Falun Gong, urging lay Buddhists not to take up the practice.

Buddhism also began to be better understood and more widely practised at this time, and some officials such as Xie Lingyun, were Buddhists.

Thơ's acquiescence to and corruption under Diệm's presidency was also called into question, and he was accused of helping to repress the Buddhists by Diệm and Nhu.

The BJP has also invited Muslims to be a part of this new society and work with the Hindus, Buddhists, Jains and Sikhs for a better India.

Helmuth von Glasenapp attributed these developments to a Hindu desire to absorb Buddhism in a peaceful manner, both to win Buddhists to Vaishnavism and also to account for the fact that such a significant heresy could exist in India.

The term dōjō is also used to describe the meditation halls where Zen Buddhists practice zazen meditation.

But owing to the preponderance of Hindus and Buddhists ( non-Zoroastrians ), the Helmand and Kabul regions were also known as " White India " in those days.

Many Buddhists also subscribe to this view.

While not a large occasion for the Buddhist community, Newar Buddhists celebrate Diwali through the chanting of mantras and remembering Emperor Ashoka who is said to have converted to Buddhism on this day, and therefore Buddhists also know the festival as Ashok Vijayadashami.

By 1573 he had destroyed the alliance of Asakura clan and Azai clans that threatened his northern flank, obliterated the militant Tendai Buddhists monastic center at Mount Hiei near Kyoto, and also had managed to avoid a potentially debilitating confrontation with Takeda Shingen, who had suddenly taken ill and died just as his army was on the verge of defeating the Tokugawa and invading Oda's domain on its way to Kyoto.

There are also a number of Buddhists, Taoists, and Christians in Guangxi.

Today, many stupas also hold the ashes or ringsel of prominent / respected Buddhists who were cremated.

In addition to the major communities the Buddhists, the Jains, the Sikhs, and the Jews also form part of the cosmopolitan population.

He says that they fall onto the tengu road because, as Buddhists, they cannot go to Hell, yet as people with bad principles, they also cannot go to Heaven.

Xuanzang also discovered that the intellectual context in which Buddhists disputed and interpreted texts was much vaster and more varied than the Chinese materials had indicated: Buddhist positions were forged in earnest debate with a range of Buddhist and non-Buddhist doctrines unknown in China, and the terminology of these debates drew their significance and connotations from this rich context.

In Vajrayāna particularly, Tibetan Buddhists subscribe to a voluntary code of self-censorship, whereby the uninitiated do not seek and are not provided with information about it.

However, each branch of Mahayana Buddhism selects which sutra to follow, and some branches, including the majority of Tibetan and Japanese Buddhists, do eat meat, while many Chinese Buddhist branches do not.

The majority of Catholics, Buddhists and nonbelievers practice ancestral rites, although Protestants do not.

Buddhists do not worship Brahma ( a Hindu deity ) or " Deva " ( an ancient South Asian term for a deity, today meaning either a Hindi translation of the English " God "/ Latin " Deus " concept Christian Indians tend to use the term " Parameshvara " or " Supreme Creator God " for the Christian God the Father or a synonym for the ancient South Asian concept of Brahman ).

Buddhists do not consider Siddhartha Gautama to have been the only Buddha.

Their reasons are that modern day Buddhists, Hindus and others ( a ) do not literally worship " sticks and stones ", as the idolaters in the Tanakh were described doing.

Most Buddhists do acknowledge the existence of gods in Hindu pantheon.

# Bonpos circumambulate chortens or other venerated structures counter-clockwise ( i. e., with the left shoulder toward the object ), rather than clockwise ( as Buddhists do ).

Most Korean American Christians do not practice traditional Confucian ancestral rites practiced in Korea ( in Korea, most Catholics, Buddhists and nonbelievers practice these rites ).

Though a large quantity of Buddhism has been shown in Phimai, evidence such as large pots that were embedded in some corners of the structure suggests that number of spiritual practices other than the ones that Buddhists do has been practiced in Phimai.

Friends do not have to regard themselves as Buddhists, and can be of any faith, or none.

The above lineage was proposed by Buddhists of later times and do not reflect the popularity of the monks at that time.

Many Buddhists at that time felt that the Dharma of the Buddha had declined to such a point that people could not do it themselves anymore, a concept called mappo in Japanese, a Mahayana eschatology that claims that the ability to practice Dharma properly declines over time.

For instance, Buddhists do not believe in a personal deity ; Zoroastrians believe in Ahura Mazda and his nemesis Angra Mainyu, as well as " lesser gods ," many Wiccans believe in two deities ; while Hindus, Asatruar, Hellenists, and Celtic Reconstructionists believe in many.

However, most Buddhists do not pursue skill in meditation or aim for enlightenment.

" ( i. e. God ) thus atheists, agnostics, Buddhists, most Satanists, some Unitarian Universalists and New Age followers, who do not believe in a supreme being would be excluded from public office.

The Jaina traditions seem to draw in part on ancient sources independent of those of the brahmanas, as do the Buddhists also, and are not merely corruptions of Brahmanical traditions.

Due to the understanding of animals as conscious and suffering beings, many Buddhists do not kill animals and many also do not eat meat ( other than that from those who died naturally, and from species where the consumption of brethren is not troubling to the still living ).

The overall idea of cenobitic monasticism cannot be traced to a single source, however, as many have tried to do in calling Pachomius the " founder " of the tradition, but rather is thanks to the ideas and work of numerous groups, including the aforementioned Melitians, Manichaeans, Elkasites, Buddhists and, of course, the Pachomians.

The Tamang people originally practiced Bonism, or ancestor worship and living in proximity to the Tibetans, became Buddhists when Buddhism spread in Tibet and were one of the earliest communities to do so.

Since most Buddhists do not consider the Buddha to have been a " god ", Jewish Buddhists do not consider Buddhist practice to be " worship ".