Religion in Bhutan
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Bhutan is a Buddhist country by constitution and Buddhism plays a vital role in the country.
The official religion in Bhutan is Buddhism, which is practiced by 84.3%% of the population;[3] the rest of the population is mainly Hindu. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the King.
In the past, approximately 85% of the population of 770,000 followed either the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school, the Nyingma school of Tibetan Buddhism or another school of Buddhism. Almost 11.3% of citizens (mainly Lhotshampas) practiced Hinduism.[4][5]