Buddhism in Iceland

The Buddhism in Iceland has relatively young roots and is largely restricted to the metropolitan area Höfuðborgarsvæðið . There are contacts with Buddhists in the USA, Finland and Great Britain. Some groups of different traditions are currently active, including those worn by people of Asian origin. As of January 1, 2015, 1,022 people or 0.3% of the population of the Buddhist association Búddistafélag Íslands belonged to the predominantly Evangelical-Lutheran country . Activities of Theravada , Soto-Zen , Jodo Shinshu and New Kadampa and thus of all major Buddhist schools are currently known.

Buddhism also came into the conversation through the documentary Vertu Eðlilegur (Act Normal) shown at the Reykjavík Film Festival in October 2006 . The film tells the story of a young Englishman who becomes a Buddhist monk Dhammanando in Thailand , then looks after the Thai community in Iceland for a few years and finally takes off the monk's robes in order to marry a Russian woman.

Web links

• Soto Zen
• Kadampa Group ( Memento from August 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Documentary Vertu Eðlilegur

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hagstofa Íslands: Landshagir / Statistical Yearbook of Iceland 2015 . Hagstofa Íslands, 2015, ISBN 978-9979-770-55-8 , ISSN  1017-6683 , p. 235 ( (PDF; 17.3 MB) ).