Boys joining the sangha in this country go through the shinbyu ceremony, one of the Twelve Auspicious Rites. Alchemy is practiced by mystics in this country known as weizza. The Pali Canon was inscribed on over 700 tablets in this modern-day country as a result of the Fifth Buddhist Council, which, along with the Sixth Buddhist Council, was held in this modern-day country. The three marks of existence are the subject of a meditation-focused movement that originated in this country named for its focus on “insight,” or vipassanā. This country is home to the nationalist Buddhist 969 (“nine-six-nine”) movement. Eight strands of the Buddha’s hair are allegedly contained in this country’s large golden Shwedagon Pagoda. For 10 points, name this country where Buddhist nationalists have persecuted the Muslim Rohingya people. ■END■
| Florida | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 67% | 0% | 67% | 129.00 |
| Great Lakes | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 17% | 110.33 |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 123.67 |
| Midwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 6 | 100% | 0% | 83% | 123.33 |
| North | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 0% | 113.33 |
| Northeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 124.20 |
| Overflow | 2025-02-01 | Y | 5 | 100% | 0% | 60% | 96.00 |
| Pacific Northwest | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 100% | 128.50 |
| South Central | 2025-02-01 | Y | 2 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 121.00 |
| Southeast | 2025-02-01 | Y | 4 | 100% | 0% | 25% | 127.75 |
| UK | 2025-02-01 | Y | 10 | 90% | 0% | 40% | 105.11 |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | 2025-02-01 | Y | 8 | 100% | 0% | 50% | 107.63 |
| Upstate NY | 2025-02-01 | Y | 3 | 100% | 0% | 33% | 127.67 |
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikhil Chellam | Northwestern A | Purdue | 16 | 10 |
| Vikshar Athreya | Rutgers A | Cornell B | 22 | 10 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Harvard B | 31 | -5 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Manchester | 31 | -5 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Kenyon | 37 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 37 | -5 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 39 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 39 | 10 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 41 | -5 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 41 | -5 |
| Tai Belke | UBC | UW A | 44 | -5 |
| Chauncey Lo | Columbia C | George Washington A | 49 | -5 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Warwick A | 50 | 10 |
| Nicholas Nguyen | Florida B | Florida State A | 51 | -5 |
| Saketh Dontaraju | NYU A | Penn A | 51 | -5 |
| Raj Doshi | UCF B | Florida A | 56 | -5 |
| Isaac Meredith | Tufts A | Brandeis B | 56 | -5 |
| Danila Kabotyanski | Indiana A | Illinois C | 62 | -5 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | WashU B | 62 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 73 | -5 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Iowa | 73 | -5 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 87 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 87 | -5 |
| Claire Jones | Chicago A | Chicago C | 91 | -5 |
| Andrew Zeng | Stanford B | Notre Dame C | 94 | 10 |
| Jem Burch | Yale A | Johns Hopkins A | 94 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 96 | -5 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan C | 96 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 97 | 10 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | Southampton A | 97 | 10 |
| Alan Lee | Case Western A | Michigan B | 97 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Maryland A | 97 | -5 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | Penn B | 97 | -5 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 99 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 109 | -5 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 110 | -5 |
| Liam Starnes | Chicago B | Chicago D | 112 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU B | WashU A | 112 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 112 | 10 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern B | 112 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 112 | -5 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 113 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas A | 113 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia B | 113 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Dartmouth A | 113 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 116 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Vassar A | 116 | 10 |
| Maya Kvaratskhelia | Notre Dame A | Georgetown B | 121 | -5 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Durham | 122 | 10 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brown A | 122 | 10 |
| Robert Freeman | South Carolina | UNC C | 124 | 10 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 125 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | William & Mary | 125 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Liberty C | 126 | 10 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 126 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 127 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 127 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 127 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 127 | 10 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | NYU C | 127 | 10 |
| Sophie Higgs | UW A | UBC | 128 | 10 |
| Jackson McDonald | Alabama A | Georgia Tech A | 128 | 10 |
| Monish Jampala | Georgia Tech D | Louisville A | 128 | 10 |
| Aidan Roullet | RIT A | Binghamton A | 128 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 128 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 128 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 128 | 10 |
| Samuel Stella | Florida State A | Florida B | 129 | 10 |
| Khanh Nguyen | Florida A | UCF B | 129 | 10 |
| Clete Reinberger | Valencia A | UCF C | 129 | 0 |
| Henry Keating | UCF C | Valencia A | 129 | 0 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 129 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 129 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 129 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | Cambridge A | 129 | 0 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Michigan State | 129 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Chicago A | 129 | 10 |
| Christian Allen | Missoui S&T | Illinois B | 129 | 10 |
| Sriram Koritala | Illinois C | Indiana A | 129 | 10 |
| Drew Scheiner | Missouri | Illinois A | 129 | 10 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 129 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | MIT A | 129 | 10 |
| Jerry Zhang | Harvard B | UMass Boston | 129 | 10 |
| Jonah Hubert | Notre Dame B | Georgetown A | 129 | 10 |
| Ben Horning | Georgetown B | Notre Dame A | 129 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Oxford A | 129 | 10 |
| Nicholas Lane | George Washington A | Columbia C | 129 | 10 |
| Patrick Torre | Maryland A | George Washington B | 129 | 10 |
| Vedh Ramesh | Penn B | Haverford B | 129 | 10 |