6 Even an approximate total is difficult to calculate. At the lowest
estimate we have a number considerably exceeding the whole mass of
Christians. But it is important to bear in mind that in China,
_which supplies more than three-fourths of the total number_, both
Taouism and Confucianism are professed in conjunction with Buddhism.
See Rhys Davids’ _Buddhism_, chap. I (S.P.C.K.).