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What is the religon of Japan?
Shintoism, and Jido Shinsu Buddhism. Shintoism is an animist religion, tied into the founding of Japan and the imperial house. For those who identify as Buddhist rather than Shinto, they mostly align with the Jodo Shinsu sect, part of the pure land Buddhist school of Mahayana Buddhism. However, Japan is a secular nation, with the religion being viewed as a kind of good luck practice rather than guiding their lives. The equivalent of reading your horoscope, you would perform a little buddist rite or donate to a Shinto shrine for good fortune, not truly believing in it.
What is the name of the nation where Buddha founded Buddhism?
The religion was founded in northeastern India between the 6th and the 4th centuries BCE.
What are the three main religions in Japan?
== == The main religion of Japan is Shintoism, which is more accurately described as being a way of living an harmonious life rather than a religion. The second largest religion in Japan is Buddhism, which exists in a slightly different from than elsewhere e.g. Buddhist monks may be married. There a number of different religions in Japan, and it is unusually difficult to come up with percentages of the population that follow each because many followers of Shinto and Buddhism follow both or various aspects of each. Hence the best figures available are that between 84% and 96% are followers of either Shinto or Buddhism, or both to varying degrees; while 4 to 16% follow other beliefs, with Bahai and Christianity being the most common. There is also a small population of Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Sikhs and followers of the Ryukuan religion. There have been Jews in Japan since 1835, and though the nation was allied to Germany during WW2, Japan never accepted the Nazi's recommendations to instigate a "final solution" of their own.
Buddha founded Buddhism in what nation?
Try INDIA, in what is nowadays called NEPAL.
How does Shinto relate to China?
bacause it represents the whole nation of peace and harmony.
What does the colors on the cambodian flag mean?
The blue color symbolizes the country's royalty. The red represents the nation and the white represents the religion, beginning with Brahmanism, and the current major religion - Buddhism. The emblem of the temple represents the structure of the universe.
In which nation has Buddhism most greatly declined?
India
Which nation was where Buddha founded Buddhism?
Buddhism began in what is now India, in the area of Bihar, Northern India.
An island nation south of India?
An island nation south of India is the Maldives Nation
The nation with the largest island in the Caribbean Sea is what island?
The nation with the largest island in the Caribbean Sea is what island Cuba.
What is the capital of an island nation?
Depends on the island nation you are asking about. The island nation of Great Britain's capital is London. The island nation of Cuba's capital is Havana. There are dozens more. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_island_countries
What led japan to establish an aggressive policy of imperialism?
Japan was a small, densely populated nation. Japan wanted to modernize, but needed raw materials, cheap labor, and markets for manufactured goods.
