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The first yoga school in this country was founded 70 years ago. The Hungarian pianist and sculptor Elisabeth Haich moved from [[Budapest]] to [[Zurich]] in the 1940s, together with her Indian husband and doctor Selvarajan Yesudian. Together they opened in 1948 the first [[yoga]] school in Switzerland. Although yoga today is understood primarily as a form of relaxation and exercise, it still arouses interest among many practitioners in Hinduism, knowing that yoga originally had a deeply religious-spiritual approach. The first Indian monk who founded an association in Switzerland was Swami Omkarananda, who founded the Divine Light Center in [[Winterthur]] in 1966.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.hinduismtoday.com/modules/smartsection/makepdf.php?itemid=5461|title=Three European Monasteries|work=Hinduismtoday}}</ref> In the early 1970s, the [[Osho]] community under the leadership of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh and the [[ISKCON]] (International Society for Krishna Consciousness), founded by Swami [[A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada|Prabhupada]], also spread.
The Srilankan Tamil Hindus came to switzerland as refugees during the ethnic conflict in 1983 .While in the early days, the Krishna Temple on [[Zürichberg]], which was opened in 1980, provided a first refuge for many [[Tamils]], various communities formed over the years, so that in 1986 the first Tamil temple was opened in [[Basel]]. More temple openings followed in all parts of Switzerland, so there are over 20 different Tamil Hindu temples today.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindus.ch/hinduisminswitzerland.html|title
==Demographics==
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The 2000 census reported 27,839 residents of [[Switzerland]] self-identifying as [[Hindu]]s (0.38% of the total population; 1.11% in [[Bern]], 1% in [[Zurich]], 0.27% in Geneva). Most of them are [[Sri Lankan Tamils]] (81.2%).
In 2017, Hindus constituted 0.6% of the population of Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/fr/home/statistiques/population/langues-religions/religions.html|title=Religions}}</ref> There are about 50,000 Hindus in Switzerland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.hindus.ch/hinduisminswitzerland.html|title
==Hindu Associations==
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*[http://www.bfs.admin.ch/bfs/portal/de/index/dienstlei.stungen/publikationen_statistik/publikationskatalog.Document.50514.pdf 2000 census results]{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} (Swiss federal statistics office)
*[http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=108&sid=6186723&cKey=1140784868000 Swiss Tamils look to preserve their culture] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090124135122/http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=108&sid=6186723&cKey=1140784868000 |date=2009-01-24 }}, [[Swissinfo]], February 18, 2006.
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