Buddha a Costa Rica

Costa Rica tana da mabiya addinin Buddha da yawa fiye da sauran ƙasashe a Amurka ta tsakiya waɗanda ke da kusan mutane 100,000  (kaso 2.34 bisa 100 na jimlar yawan jama'a), Panama ta biyo baya, tare da kusan 70,000 (2.1% na jimlar yawan jama'a).

Mutanen Hijra na kasar Sin sun fara shigar da addinin Buddha a cikin ƙasar a farkon karni na 19 da na 20, amma daga baya wani muhimmin sashe na waɗannan baƙin ya zama -- aƙalla na sunan-- Roman Katolika saboda jama'ar Katolika masu ra'ayin mazan jiya . Amma akwai rajistar da wasu daga cikinsu suka yi imani da addinin Buddah suna yin aiki da hankali, misali, shaidar marubuci Jorge Cardona na bagadan Buddha a tsakanin 'yan kasuwa na kasar Sin a farkon karni na 20 Puntarenas .  Wani tushen addinin Buddha a kasar shine Theosophical Society, wanda ya shahara a tsakanin muhimman mambobi na tattalin arziki da ilimin kasar. Daga cikin mawaƙa da masu ilimin tauhidi waɗanda suka rubuta waƙar Buddha sune Roberto Brenes Mesén da José Basileo Acuña Zeledón. Duk da haka daya daga cikin haikalin Buddhist na farko da aka yi a cikin ƙasar shine Casa Zen (Gidan Zen) na Costa Rica wanda aka ƙirƙira a shekarar 1974 tare da goyon bayan gwamnatin Japan,   sannan Cibiyar Dharma ta farko ta addinin Buddah na Tibet na Gelug ta biyo baya. al'adar da aka kafa a cikin 1989 bayan ziyarar farko ta Dalai Lama a kasar.

A zamanin yau, kuma ƙananan ƙungiyoyin mishan na Buddha ne ke jagorantar ta, kamar Soka Gakkai International ., wanda ya kafa cibiyar al'umma a San Jose. tibet in costa rica  (official website, in spanish)

 Addinin Buddha na Tibet 
Makarantun gargajiya guda hudu na addinin Buddah na Tibet suna nan a Costa Rica. 

Mafi sanannun kuma rukuni na farko shine "Asociación Cultural Tibetano-Costarricense"  (Ƙungiyar Al'adun Tibet-Costarrican), wadda aka kafa a shekarar 1989 AZ bayan ziyarar farko ta XIV Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso a Latin Amurka . Shekaru daga baya, a cikin 2004 AZ, XIV Dalai Lama ya sake ziyartar Costa Rica.  Ya ba da wasu jawabai, ciki har da ɗaya a Jami'ar Costa Rica kuma ya shiga cikin ayyukan ecumenical da suka haɗa da babban limamin Costa Rica. Ziyarar Dalai Lama ta uku da aka shirya yi a shekara ta 2008 an soke shi ne bayan da gwamnatin Costa Rica karkashin Oscar Arias Sánchez ta sabunta dangantaka da Jamhuriyar Jama'ar Sin game da Taiwan, lamarin da ya haifar da tsamin dangantaka da al'ummar Buddah da kuma suka daga 'yan adawa. Shugaban 'yan adawa Otto Solís ya fito fili ya goyi bayan Dalai Lama tare da yin alkawarin sanya sunan filin wasa na kasa don girmama shi idan ya lashe zaben shugaban kasa. 

ACTC tana gudanar da Cibiyar Buddha Dharma ta Dubu da ke Barrio Amón, San José City . Wannan cibiyar tana daya daga cikin al'adun Gelug . Hakanan akwai Cibiyar Buddhist na Hanyar Diamond a cikin Curridabat, San José (Tsarin Karma Kagyu )  da Cibiyar Lingmincha na al'adar Nyingma - Bon . 

 Zen Buddha 
Casa Zen na cibiyar Costa Rica yana zaune a Santo Domingo, Heredia . 

 Wasu Addinan Buddha 
Akwai kuma majami'un addinin Buddha na Theravada,  Shaolin  da Pagoda na Buddha na kasar Sin . 

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