what is the major religion in china?
i think it is buddhism, but what sect?
all of the following religions are practiced in china 

1heaven worship 
2 buddhism
3 taoism 
4 islam 
5 christianity 
6 judaism 
7 recent sects 
 .....falun gong 
 ..... way of former heaven

buddhists 8%, with more than 200,000 monks and nuns. this value is seen as extremely low because there are more than 16,000 buddhist temples that do not maintain traditional congregations. 

taoists, unknown as a percentage, there are more than 25,000 taoist monks and nuns at more than 1,500 temples. taoist belief is often intertwined with both buddhism and traditional folk religions. 

muslims, 1.4%, with more than 45,000 imams. other estimates are much higher. 

protestant christians, 1.2% with official churches. it is estimated that another 2.5% of the population is a protestant christian worshipping through an unofficial house church. 

catholic christians, 6% with official churches, and the vatican claims up to another 10% who are catholics attending catholic services at underground churches. 

it should be noted, however, that statistics relating to buddhism and religious taoism are to some degree incomparable with statistics for islam and christianity. this is due to the traditional chinese belief system which blends confucianism, buddhism, and taoism, so that a person who follows a traditional belief system would not necessarily identify him- or herself as either buddhist or taoist, despite regularly attending buddhist or taoist places of worship.

most people report no organized religious affiliation; however, belief in folk traditions and non-religious spiritual beliefs, such as ancestor worship and feng shui, along with informal ties to local temples and unofficial house churches is in the hundreds of millions.
Arunachal native people believe in **Animism**, which means believing that all things including animals, plants, rivers, Sun, Moon, etc. have a spirit, and are alive.


The name **Donyi-Polo**, the predominant religion of Arunachal Pradesh means **"Sun - moon worshippers"**. With the belief in animism, these people worship nature.


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  lived through wwii with the nazi's.  concentration camps or forced labor.  relationships do not equal causation  the world health organization says 4000 deaths while green peace says 10000 deaths.  the women are out living the men because the men are drinking and smoking, across the world it is more accepted for a man to drink and smoke than it is for a woman.  in that case you have higher numbers of men drinking and smoking and dying from that instead of the radiation poisoning.  the town was built around chernobyl.  the people who were relocated seem to be dying sooner than the ones who came back. o russia is the biggest country by land area. o you can see alaska from russia, only 4km between the two. o physical geography  sw russia desert  main area of settlement near moscow  cannot connect to any waterways.  caspian sea o 4 regions  russian core  majority of the population  siberia  freezing  where people would be exiled  eastern frontier  desert section  separation between siberia and frontier is climate and culture  far east  not many settlements  hard to navigate the land o approximately 75% of russia is siberia has far as land area o a majority of the population lives in the russian core and the eastern frontier o physical russian geography  russian plain  west of the ural mountains; moscow (core of russia)  ural mountains (2000 miles long)  low relief mountain chain separating east/west russia  western siberia (constant elevation) 
  flat plains and forests  central siberia  moderate mountains; very cold (artic circle)  eastern highlands (mostly the yakutski basin)  one of the most remote places on earth o climate  sw desert  russian core humid continental (northern midwest into canada)  majority is subarctic. (freezing)  tundra only has a few centimeters a year that is thawed for a limited amount of time. o interesting facts about russia  continentally has a huge impact on russia's climate  similar to the upper mid-west and canada  economy is rising  it depends heavily on oil  becoming increasingly more "modern" and "western"  red square  a city square block where the government is housed  misconceptions  not called red square because it is called a communist country  not because the buildings are red  it is because the language has evolved.  used to be the slums until the 1400s o the soviet union  u.s.s.r. (cccp)  union of soviet socialistic republics  formed in 1917 after the bolshevik revolution  most citizens were very poor, unhapy with autocratic tsar systerm  industrial revolution was occuring in europe = caused  a federation of power  split of power with no true ruler  russification: the idea of replacing ethnic  areas with russians; ethnic groups moved east  command economy: a system where the government assigns sectors of production to particular areas with disregard to economic o spread of the soviet influence  after wwii, communism spread into eastern europe  china and korea 1950s  cuba in 1959 with castro 
  se asia in 1954  africa in 1970s  created tensions with the us and europe  cold war  agriculture cut off by ukraine o space race  1957 soviet union  1958 us  1965 france  1970 japan  1970 china  1971 uk  1979 esa  1980 india o post-soviet union  the russian federation  becoming more "european" culturally and politically  only 3 men have been president in the past 22 years  yeltsin  putin  medvedev  putin (again)  test april 12th o eastern europe(balkans & ukraine, rock of gibraltar) o sub-sahara africa o north africa  map quiz 6 o east asia and russia  monday 4/11 -friday 4/15  spread of religion o oldest religion  hinduism o abraham was born  ur o fastest spreading religion  islam o islam is a religion, muslim's follow islam  ddt in africa: malaria v. health risks o ethical concern  protection of the diversity of wildlife v. malaria victims dying in africa o tuberculosis is mainly in the north o diarrheal diseases due to unclean water  north africa and the middle east o interesting facts 
  the middle east is known as the "crossroads of the world" because it lies in between asia, africa and europe  hence the name "middle"  the term "arab" refers to an ethnic group not a religion  not all arabs are muslims  this confusion also exists with judaism  naswa an acronym for north africa/south-west asia  iran is the former persian empire  very large portion of the population is under 30  educated  unemployed o original three abrahamic faith  judaism (first abrahamic religions)  christianity  islam  monotheistic  the belief in one god o populations  egypt= nile river  turkey= black sea and mediterranean sea  iran= caspian sea and persian gulf  north africa = mediterranean sea  majority of populations live near water because of the dry climat o the birthplace of civilization  birthplace of man is ethiopia  fertile crescent = mesopotamia = between two rivers  neolithic = 10,000 years ago humans began to domesticate plants and animals, learned to irrigate their fields and grow the population  birthplace of many foundational concepts:  maps  60 minutes per hour; 24 hours per day  trigonometry  early medicine  irrigation  written text  the egyptian empire  highly advanced  second oldest language  hieroglyphics  writing paper, irrigation, domestication of wheat  sailing  architecture, masonry (pyramids)  polytheistic and belief of an afterlife 
  kings were called paharos  sun god rah  oil in naswa  saudi arabia number 1 oil producers in the world and the us's biggest alli in the middle east  began in iran  majority of the oil was found after ww2  opec  orgainzation of petroleum exporting countries  created to try to not have a monoply  8 naswa countries  can cause high prices for those who don't have oil  results of opec  has totally transformed the middle east since the 1960s  positives  urban transformation  infrastructure investments  industrialization  foreign investment and involvement  negatives  variable income  regional disparities  migration from other realms  nasaw dynamic  fragmented modernization  many issues in the middle east and north america  wealth disparities  most naswa people are poor, not rich  typical iranian makes $10,840 usd a year  qatar citizen makes $103,900 usd a year  religion differences internally (shia v. sunnis) and externally (christianity/judaism)  old autocratic government leaders and young populations = cultural issues  arab spring (2010-present)  started with a fruit vender. couldn't sale his fruit so in protest he set himself on fire, dying a few weeks later  spread quickly through social media  two things in common  old rulers who have been there for a long time  young, well-educated, unemployed population  cultural regions of the middle east 
  30 countries  6 regions  egypt and the lower nial = the heart  the maghred (sahara)  the middle east  largely islamic  the arabian peninsula = richest oil  the empire states = iran and turkey  turkestan  transition zone  african tz is the primary area where the sunni and the shia are having problems  egypt  suez canal  get the oil out  saudi arabia  desert  iran  iranian revolution in 1979 faith and religion are closely related to another, but there are many differences between them. one of those differences is how they are carried out. religion is more strict and structured than faith is. an example is christianity. this is a 1) he lived during the 13th century and belonged to italy.2) he lived for 17years in china and wrote about china’s flora and fauna, social life, culture, and trade systems in place.3) he traveled extensively from 1271 to 1295 with his family.4) he spent much of this time in china in the court of the great mongol emperor kublai khan.5) his book, description of the world, offered one of the first detailed descriptions of the mysterious eastern cultures to europeans.6) he introduced asia (china) to europe. what are you talking about religious people get mocked frequently and looked down upon by those who either believe differently or don't believe at all. this is why we shouldn't have religious people in power, they have a tendency to make it hard on the other religions. Hi Chelsea,  
  
It's in Xiamen China since Jan. 25 and still in domestic transit in China now:  
  
2018-01-25 15:08 Xiamen Processing Center, the export of mutual seal (domestic transit)  
2018-01-25 14:27 Xiamen, opened and dismantled  
2018-01-24 11:47 Fujian Zhangpu Receiving and forwarding center, received  
2018-01-22 18:31 Logistics order has been created caste sanctions is losing its lustre in contemporary india and therefore, do not operate with the same force in all sections of indian society. however, marriage rules are still observed strictly. we see, endogamy is still the dominant mode in contemporary india but inter-caste marriages are also acceptable today in some sections of indian society particularly in the urban centres. however, this trend is also limited to the upper castes i.e. inter caste marriages between brahmin, ksatriya and vaisya or bania families. marriages outside we see, hardly run for any longer period and end in divorce or separation otherwise. this happens because the couple cannot do compromise with their distinct manners any long. the political use of the caste is increasing day-by-day to every region of india.


the structures and functions of caste system have also been deteriorated to a greater extent. the ritual injunctions and interdictions relating to food and physical contact have almost vanished since untouchability has been declared an offence liable to punishment by the laws of the land. the relations of jajmani have been replaced by clientele in urban areas. even in villages, jajmani relationships are mantained only at the ritual level.


caste system is thus, making an adequate adjustment with the changing times. it has retained its relevance by becoming more resilient and accommodative. the most important of such processes include sanskritisation, westernisation, industrialization, urbanisation and constitutional legislation. I was looking for learning materials myself last year, and I found it extremely difficult to find anything. Nonetheless I'll share my list of links that I have found:


<http://www.wu-chinese.com/minidict/index.php>


<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLtKkbTxKfI&list=PLlLW7LqMZp-ZRai8jxIxBMUPz4CtUXhY9&index=12>


<http://wu-chinese.com/romanization/index.html>


<https://chinesepod.com/library/courses/shanghainese-newbie-course/13>


<http://www.17-minute-world-languages.com/en/shanghainese/> There are two perspectives to the theme of "karma".   
  
One is a Western view which has an emphasis on shame or "What comes around goes around." In other words if one has done something to hurt or damage another then at some point in the future one will experience a similar injury or embarrassment that somehow "evens the score."  
  
Another perspective comes from the Eastern Hindu and Buddhist faiths which view karma as life presenting constant experiences for "soul growth". Whether "good" or "bad" experiences their purpose is for the eventual acquisition of "enlightenment" and freedom from the wheel of reincarnation. What is this enlightenment? It is living in the consciousness of love and compassion. It's not a philosophy of shame or "comeuppance" for doing wrong to another.   
  
It's really tough to forgive someone if they have hurt or wronged you. And yet, it is by following this difficult path, we eventually earn both a psychological and spiritual freedom that allows us to live a peaceful life. Hi Melanie,  
  
It's normal. It was delivered to air transport on April 10 and takes about 7-15 days for it to leave China. You can not know the exact situation when it's in the middle locations. It usually takes about another 15-40 days (after it left China) to reach and there will be further update when it arrives.