[Buddha-l] Speaking of statistics

[Richard Hayes]

On Tuesday 20 March 2007 14:03, Erik Hoogcarspel wrote:

> So what are your conclusions, or maybe I should ask: what's your bias here?
>
> To put it in perspective: how many Indian Buddhists would call
> themselves Hindu as well? How many Japannese Buddhists would call
> themselves also Shinto, how many Chinese Buddhists Confucian? I never
> saw any statistics, but I reckon these percentages would be well above
> zero.

Yes, that is exactly my bias. Buddhism has never required that one regard 
oneself as exclusively Buddhist, so I reckon the number of Buddhists seeing 
themselves as ONLY Buddhist would be somewhere around zero.

-- 
Richard Hayes
Department of Philosophy
University of New Mexico