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Control of Japanese Buddhism by Tokugawa Shögunate (the ruling feudal government)
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Hakuin (1686-1769) was a monk, writer and artist who helped revive the Rinzai Zen Sect in Japanese Buddhism.
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Age of Enlightenment introduced some revolutionary new ideas to Europe in the 1700's.
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The 5th Buddhist Council in Mandalay, Burma where the text of the Pali Canon was revised and inscribed on 729 marble slabs.
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although the exact year is unknown it is presumed that Buddhists in Australia first arrived when the Chinese miners during the gold rushes, Indonesian traders and many others came into the country in the 1880s
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Buddhist Mission Society in Germany was founded
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Buddhist Society of Great Britain was founded
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Founding of World Fellowship of Buddhist 1952
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A Monastic School in 1956. A monastic school is where young people learn and grow in a Buddhist environment in order to become a monk or nun. They are taken care of and have to participate in all activities and religious services.
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Buddha Jayanti Year, commemorating 2,500 years of Buddhism
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S.W.R.D. Bandaranaike, Prime Minister, had arrived at the Colombo Harbour to say goodbye/send off the Buddhist Mission to Germany
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On March 10, 1959, Tibet rebelled against control by China's Communist Party, starting the Tibetan Uprising. The Dalai Lama fled Tibet, which claimed independence from China, and western interest in Tibetan Buddhism greatly increased.
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First Theravada Monastery established in USA, 1966
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Upon the death of Mao, Buddhism begins to revive in China 1976
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H.H. Dalai Lama receives Nobel Peace Prize
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UK Association of Buddhist Studies founded 1995
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Destruction of standing Buddha statues at Bamiyan by Taliban regime. 2001
