Category: Buddhism

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Buddhism Effect On Society, Education, Art, etc.

Buddhism faced new challenges and opportunities in the 20th and 21st centuries. These challenges and opportunities were different from the religious and cultural patterns of the Buddhist world during the premodern period. Many Buddhist countries fell under Western control, even those that were not subject to direct conquest. Modern scientific and rationalistic thinking, liberal democracy, socialism, and capitalist patterns of economic organization became...