Vietnam's population of 75m is mostly Buddhist, but more than one person in ten is a Catholic.
But I am also Buddhist and Quaker, and have seriously explored Catholicism, Episcopalianism, Judaism, Sufi, Shinto, Islam, Unitarianism, Ethical Culture, and a whole host more of religions.
Mindfulness originated in Buddhist teaching, but anyone can do it.
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Yet the King floats above this adulation, observing it as if from outside his own body, gracious but distant, selfless in the Buddhist sense.
The clashes seemed confined to that region, but in late March, similar Buddhist-led violence swept the town of Meikthila in central Myanmar, killing at least 43 people.
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But the local authorities are aware that the Buddhist complex is important.
But I've got a bunch of Buddhist friends and a couple of monks out there who try to teach me all the time.
But in the summer and especially during the Buddhist Obon festival in August, Towa's island of Suoh-Oshima is overrun with visitors, many of them returning locals.
But Mr Koizumi's junior coalition partner, the Buddhist-backed New Komeito, has balked at the idea.
At 30, she met and married a German doctor but left him, amicably she says, to become a Buddhist nun and pursue enlightenment in India.
This was very difficult for the first one or two years, but then I learned how to deal with it by practicing Zen Buddhist meditation and yoga.
"The situation is better than the previous day but we can't sleep well at night, " one man, a Buddhist, told Reuters.
He became a Roman Catholic, perhaps to please his wife, who came from a rich Catholic family, but like many Vietnamese he managed to divide his spiritual loyalties, occasionally worshipping at Buddhist shrines.
In Japan, the law prevents children from donating organs, but there is also an overall reluctance to donate organs that is rooted in Shinto and Buddhist attitudes towards death.
The story is not just a reprisal of the country's tragic past, but a look at it today: there are scenes of beer girls and nightclubs, Buddhist religious ceremonies and a planned traditional arranged marriage, and the newly rich living in freshly-acquired luxury homes.
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