khmer: History Of Buddhist Saturday & Sunday School

Buddhist School of either Saturday or Sunday School are processing in various Buddhist countries such as Sri Lanka, Burma, Thailand..etc. This method copied from the Buddhist monk missionary in various European countries that those monk missionaries faced with problems that those people and children are always too busy with their study and works beside of Saturday and Sunday. Now, the Westerns are more interesting in Buddhism and devout themselves as the Buddhists more and more, all these because Buddhism is so challenging with their wisdom, intelligence and modern world.

Follow statistic of Buddhists population only in USA there were 30,000 Buddhists in 1900--- the number of people practicing it sharply rose in the past two decades. There were 200,000 Buddhist in the United States in the mid-70s. The number swelled to 1.8 million by 1995, according to the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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