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 |
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| 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 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Warwick B | 39 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT A | Harvard A | 39 | -5 |
| 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 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Iowa | 73 | -5 |
| Rohan Dalal | Georgia Tech C | Vanderbilt A | 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 |
| Daniel Huang | Michigan D | Michigan C | 96 | 10 |
| Agnijo Banerjee | Cambridge A | Southampton B | 96 | -5 |
| Alan Lee | Case Western A | Michigan B | 97 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Ohio State B | 97 | 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 |
| Henry Bon | Winona State | Carleton | 99 | 10 |
| Anne Fjeld | Alberta | UW B | 109 | -5 |
| Giuseppe Piccirilli | Binghamton A | RIT A | 110 | -5 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Northwestern B | 112 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Cambridge E | 112 | -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 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas A | 113 | 10 |
| Jacob Egol | Duke | Wake Forest | 113 | 10 |
| Jaehyun Park | BU | Dartmouth A | 113 | 10 |
| Jerry Vinokurov | John Jay College | Columbia B | 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 |
| Jonathan Schnipper | Brandeis A | Brown A | 122 | 10 |
| Ian McDowell | Cambridge C | Durham | 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 |
| Arunn Sankar | Georgia Tech B | Tennessee A | 126 | 10 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | Liberty C | 126 | 10 |
| Jon White | Cambridge E | NYU C | 127 | 10 |
| Ryan Judge | Carnegie Mellon A | Case Western B | 127 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Liberty B | 127 | 10 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | UNC B | 127 | 10 |
| Gregory Stone | ESF A | Cornell C | 127 | 10 |
| Michael Sun | Brandeis B | Tufts A | 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 |
| Fahim Afzal | Cambridge D | Oxford C | 128 | 10 |
| Aidan Roullet | RIT A | Binghamton A | 128 | 10 |
| Kritanu Saha | Cornell D | RIT B | 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 |
| 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 |
| Keerthana Krishnan | Texas B | TAMU | 129 | 10 |
| Yuxuan Lu | Vanderbilt A | Georgia Tech C | 129 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Oxford B | 129 | 10 |
| Jacob Price | Sheffield | Oxford A | 129 | 10 |
| 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 |
| Arjun Nageswaran | Harvard A | MIT A | 129 | 10 |
| Yaj Jhajhria | UW B | Alberta | 129 | 10 |
| Zosia Mikolajczuk | Southampton B | Cambridge A | 129 | 0 |
| 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 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | NYU A | 129 | 10 |