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===Trends=== Buddhist monasteries include some of the largest in the world. [[Drepung Monastery]] in Tibet housed around 10,000 monks prior to the [[Annexation of Tibet by the People's Republic of China|Chinese invasion]]<ref>{{cite web|title= Tibet in Louisville|url= http://www.spiritualtravels.info/blog/page/10/|website= Spiritual Travels|publisher= Lori |access-date= 2013-02-11|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20171107020734/http://www.spiritualtravels.info/blog/page/10/|archive-date=2017-11-07|url-status= dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title= Monks under siege in monasteries as protest ends in a hail of gunfire |author= Macartney, Jne |date= March 12, 2008 |work= The Sunday Times|url= http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3528078.ece|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080511205447/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article3528078.ece|url-status= dead|archive-date= May 11, 2008}}</ref> in 1950β1951. {{As of | 2020}} the relocated monastery in India houses around 8,000.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}}
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