Buddhism in Argentina is well known since the early 1980s. Approximately 0.15% of the people of Argentina are Buddhist. Even though this is a mainly Catholic country, Chinese immigrants established the first Chinese temple in 1986. By the same time, Korean immigrants founded their own temple. Since then, many groups have been giving teachings, some of them rooted in the best known Soto tradition from Japan, but also in many Tibetan institutes for the practice of the meditation (Mahamudra, Dzog Chen, Lam Rim).