Religion

Buddhism is one of the world's great religions. There are six major religious systems in the world. Each has many subdivisions and methods of practice. They are:

• Judeo-Christian-Islamic complex
• Hinduism (practiced by 800,000,000 people in India)
  1. Shaivism
  2. Vaishnavism
  3. Shakta
  
• Taoism (practiced in China)
  
• Confucianism (practiced in China)
  
• Shamanism (practiced around the Pacific Basin from Burma and Thailand, north to Siberia, all through Alaska and the northwest of Canada and the U.S. into Mexico and on to Central and South America.)
  
• Buddhism (which originated in India and was, and in many cases still is, practiced in most of the countries in Asia.)