A is false. Despite the fact that Buddhism emerged from India and it was once a majority of the country during Emperor Asoka, Buddhism declined after the Islamic conquest and now it is compound for a notorious minority of poeple.
B is false. Most Buddhists live in Asia, particularly in China. It’s difficult to have an exact number of Buddhists in Asia but they easily exceed 300 million.
C is false. Buddhists are common people too. They have a lot of priests in monasteries but they are not even an important percentage of the great total of Buddhists who profess this religion or simply who sympathize with it.
D is true. Buddhism is the second largest religious community in 13 states. It is not easy to have an exact count, but they easily exceed the 2 to 4 million people.
Buddhism has originated in the north-east of India and has spread to other parts of Asia like Japan, China, South-East Asia and Korea and plays a central role in the spiritual, cultural and social life of the believers.
Question: Which of the following statements about modern Buddhism is accurate?
Answer: D. More than two million Buddhists live in the United States.
Texas is a very large state and may have ruined the balance between slave and free state
Explanation:
Texas would be under the line for slave states and since Texas was a massive state, the north feared that the south would gain an upper hand in the conflict between slave and free state. Eventually Maine was created to fix this.
