"From the fourteenth through the nineteenth centuries Japanese monks created hundreds of maps to construct and locate their place in a Buddhist world. This expansively illustrated volume is the first ...

The world has slowly grown to pay attention to only two religions: Christianity and Islam. These two religions have 2.3 billion and 1.9 billion followers, respectively, globally. Yet, the Buddhist ...

Buddhists are the only group in this report whose number declined worldwide between 2010 and 2020. This was due both to religious disaffiliation among Buddhists in East Asia and to a relatively low ...