In 2003 the team moved to Iksan and joined the Korea National League, but participated in only the first of the two championship stages before they were pushed out of their home stadium due to protests by Won Buddhists.

" 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.

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 ).

* Shabkar. org: Vegetarianism as a way of life for Buddhists

Whether for spiritual reasons or for material ones, substantial numbers of Native American, Africans, Hindus, Buddhists, and Confucians accepted the Gospels.

* 1963 – The Buddhist crisis: Soldiers of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam attack protesting Buddhists in Huế, South Vietnam, with liquid chemicals from tear gas grenades, causing 67 people to be hospitalised for blistering of the skin and respiratory ailments.

During his time, the Buddhists wreaked vengeance on the Hindu Brahmins ( especially the followers of Shaivism ) for the harm they had received earlier from Shankaracharya.

Some lay practitioners in the West these days use the word " Sangha " as a collective term for all Buddhists, but the Pali Canon uses the word parisā ( Sanskrit, parisad ) for the larger Buddhist community — the monks, nuns, lay men, and lay women who have taken the Three Refuges — reserving ‘ Sangha ’ for a more restricted use .”

They saw the need to establish Buddhist schools for educating Buddhist youth and organizing Buddhists with new organizations such as the Young Men's Buddhist Association, as well as printing pamphlets to encourage people to participate in debates and religious controversies to defend Buddhism.

This is in part due to the considerations of some Taiwanese Buddhists, a traditional reluctance towards slaughtering precious cattle needed for agriculture, and an emotional attachment and feeling of gratefulness and thanks to the animals traditionally used for very hard labour.

* April 8 – Buddhists in South Vietnam protest against the fact that the new government has not set a date for free elections.

* It mentions some of the answers that some Hindus, Buddhists, and members of other faiths have suggested for such philosophical questions.

In 2009, places of worship exist for Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and Muslims.

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 ).

Diệm labeled the Buddhists as “ damn fools ” for demanding something that, according to him, they already enjoyed.

On Vesākha day, devout Buddhists and followers alike are expected and requested to assemble in their various temples before dawn for the ceremonial, and honorable, hoisting of the Buddhist flag and the singing of hymns in praise of the holy triple gem: The Buddha, The Dharma ( his teachings ), and The Sangha ( his disciples ).

Generally speaking, the vast majority of Buddhists and Buddhist sects denounce and have historically frowned upon the use of any intoxicants by an individual who has taken the five precepts.

Some Buddhists point to other early texts as justifying defensive war.

At this point in time, the area that is currently Afghanistan had a multi-religious population consisting of Hindus, Buddhists, Zoroastrians, Jews, and others.

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.

Maitreya is the name Buddhists use for the future Buddha, but Creme claims that Maitreya is the teacher that all religions point towards and hope for.

The murti is regarded by some Mahayana Buddhists ( e. g. Muktinath ) during worship as a point of devotional and meditational focus.

Although at one point the Indic origin of kīla practice was widely questioned, Boord claims that " the existence of a Kīla cult among the Buddhists in eight century India ... must now surely be accepted as established " and further claims that it has been " conclusively demonstrated that all the basic doctrines and rituals of Vajrakīla had their origin in India.

In remarks to members of the Cholsum Congress on March 4, 1996, the Dalai Lama expressed satisfaction that the Congress had passed a resolution addressing the worship of Dorje Shugden, implying that Tibetan Buddhists ignoring his restrictions might hasten his own death, since " then there would not be any point in my continuing to live silently as a disappointed man.

While Burmese Buddhists considered the uprising a failure, it did mark a turning point for some in Burmese politics.

Despite legal protection under Appendix 1 of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora ( CITES ) agreement, it was captured by locals along with other swallows for sale as food or for release by devout Buddhists.

Even though some groups dissociate themselves from other ( Nichiren )- Buddhists most Nichiren Buddhists enjoy a peaceful coexistence with other religious groups in modern times, in societies which are based on freedom of belief.

The Yassa also decreed complete religious freedom, ensuring that Buddhists, Muslims, Christians, etc., were all allowed to travel freely throughout the empire ; religious leaders were also exempted from taxation, as were doctors, lawyers, undertakers, teachers, and scholars.

In response to General Khanh ’ s political manoeuvres the South Vietnamese people, predominately Buddhists, held large demonstrations in the cities calling for an end to the draconian laws which had limited the people ’ s political freedom.

Other examples of syncretism include Judeo-Paganists, a loosely organized set of Jews who incorporate pagan or Wiccan beliefs with some Jewish religious practices, like Messianic Judaism ; Jewish Buddhists, another loosely organized group that incorporates elements of Asian spirituality in their faith ; and some Renewal Jews who borrow freely and openly from Buddhism, Sufism, Native American religion, and other faiths.

According to the census of 1998, the religious breakdown of the city was as follows: Muslim ( 96. 45 %); Christian ( 2. 42 %); Hindu ( 0. 86 %); Ahmadiyya ( 0. 17 %); Others ( 0. 10 %) ( Parsis, Sikhs, Bahá ' ís, Jews and Buddhists ).

In 1254 Mongke Khan organized a formal religious debate ( in which William of Rubruck took part ) between Christians, Muslims and Buddhists in Karakorum, a cosmopolitan city of many religions.

Observations of current religious beliefs and practices demonstrate that Sinhalese as a religious community have complex worldview as Buddhists.

Due to the proximity and on some occasions similarity of certain doctrines, there are many areas where Buddhists and Hindus share religious views and practices.

This can lead to the opinion that Buddhists have adopted religious elements from Hindu traditions in their religious practices.

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

In India, Buddhist monasteries gradually developed into centres of learning where philosophical principles were developed and debated ; this tradition is currently preserved by monastic universities of Vajrayana Buddhists, as well as religious schools and universities founded by religious orders across the Buddhist world.

Virtually all Japanese Buddhist traditions, especially Jodo Shinshu, which have carried over to the West style priests as The Reverend rather than Venerable, the religious style often used by Chinese and Tibetan Buddhists.

The goal of evangelizing the world according to this model meant that very few Catholics, Jews, Moslems, Buddhists or Hindus were attracted to it, " even though the last three had a pronounced cultural and religious preference for abstinence ".

The Kara-Khitans were Buddhists and shamanists ruling over a largely Muslim Karakhanids, although they were considered fair-minded rulers whose reign was marked by religious tolerance.

In India, there are a number of private schools run by religious institutions, especially for Hindus, Muslims, Christians, Jains and Buddhists.

Journalists, political figures, and religious leaders alike — even the militant Buddhists — professed confidence in the government's plans.

Phanom Rung Fair ( งานประเพณ ี ข ึ้ นเขาพนมร ุ้ ง ): Phanom Rung Sanctuary was once a sacred Hindu shrine which was later changed into a religious site for Buddhists.

Two Hòa Hảo Buddhists self-immolated in 2005 to protest against religious persecution and more recently, after a wave of arrests of Hòa Hảo Buddhists, nine more were imprisoned in May 2007.