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 |
| Paige Crawley | Oxford B | Manchester | 31 | -5 |
| Khugan Chan | UMass Boston | Harvard B | 31 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Missouri | 37 | -5 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Kenyon | 37 | -5 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 39 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 39 | -5 |
| Arya Karthik | Oxford A | Sheffield | 41 | -5 |
| Cole Hartung | Georgetown A | Notre Dame B | 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 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Iowa | 73 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 73 | -5 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Missoui S&T | 87 | -5 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas B | 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 |
| Paritosh Purohit | Bristol | Southampton A | 97 | 10 |
| Taaj Rai | George Washington B | Maryland A | 97 | -5 |
| William Broker | Haverford B | Penn B | 97 | -5 |
| Alan Lee | Case Western A | Michigan B | 97 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 97 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 112 | -5 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern B | 112 | 10 |
| John John Groger | WashU B | WashU A | 112 | 10 |
| Conor Thompson | Iowa State | Wisconsin B | 112 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 113 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas A | 113 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Dartmouth A | 113 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia B | 113 | 10 |
| Arjun Bothra | Haverford A | Vassar A | 116 | 10 |
| Aryan Desarapu | Michigan A | Carnegie Mellon B | 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 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | William & Mary | 125 | 10 |
| Joshua Bobin | Imperial B | Cambridge B | 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 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | NYU C | 127 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 127 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 127 | 10 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 128 | 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 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 128 | 10 |
| Aidan Roullet | RIT A | Binghamton A | 128 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 128 | 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 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | Cambridge A | 129 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Noah Dean | Kenyon | Michigan State | 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 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 129 | 10 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 129 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 129 | 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 |
| Puna Ekka | Minnesota B | Wisconsin A | 129 | 10 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | MIT A | 129 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |