death. The first persecution of Buddhists in India took place in the 2nd century BC by King Pushyamitra Shunga. A non-contemporary Buddhist text states that...

motivation behind his alleged persecution of Buddhists. Others have expressed skepticism about the Buddhist claims of persecution by Pushyamitra. Étienne Lamotte...

18.7% of Malaysia's population being Buddhist, although some estimates put that figure at 21.6% when combining estimates of numbers of Buddhists with figures...

Korean government estimated the number of religious believers in 2002 to be 12,000 Protestants, 10,000 Buddhists and 800 Catholics, while estimates by...

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The Four Buddhist Persecutions in China (Chinese: 三武一宗法難) were the wholesale suppression of Buddhism carried out on four occasions from the 5th through...

affirmed this statement, but this did not placate the Buddhists. In one meeting, Diệm labeled the Buddhists "damn fools" for demanding something that according...

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Chinese were from Parthia and other kingdoms linked with present-day Iran. Buddhists were persecuted during the Sasanid rule in the vast territory they ruled...

Buddhists and Hindus also used the Sanskrit language as a religious and scholarly language. Sanskrit terminology remains important for both Buddhists...

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Marathi Buddhists (Marāṭhī Bauddha) are Buddhists of Marathi ethnic and linguistic identity. The religious community resides in the Indian state of Maharashtra...

There is a history of persecution of Muslims in Myanmar that continues to the present day. Myanmar is a Buddhist majority country, with significant Christian...

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100 as of 2010. The Baháʼí Faith originated in Iran, and it represents the largest religious minority in that country. The persecution of Buddhists has been...

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deteriorating." [3].[dead link] The persecution of Buddhists has been a widespread phenomenon throughout the history of Buddhism, a phenomenon which continues...

of California, San Diego. Winne's act was inspired by the self-immolation of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức in 1963 in response to the persecution of Buddhists...

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Mahayana Buddhist monk who died by self-immolation at a busy Saigon road intersection on 11 June 1963. Quảng Đức was protesting against the persecution of Buddhists...

Rebellion began in the southern province of Guangxi when local officials launched a campaign of religious persecution against the God Worshipping Society....

Self-immolation of Kalanos and other Luminous Encounters Among Greeks and Indian Buddhists in the Hellenistic World". Journal of the Oxford Centre for Buddhist Studies...

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cultural heritage; and the ongoing persecution of high Buddhist lamas as well as Buddhist nuns and monks. The persecution initiated in 1999 by Jiang Zemin...

The persecution of Christians can be historically traced from the first century of the Christian era to the present day. Christian missionaries and converts...

raids from British-controlled areas, massacring scores of Buddhists and causing many Buddhists to flee to southern Arakan. Aye Chan, a historian at Kanda...

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genocide was the systematic persecution and killing of Cambodian citizens by the Khmer Rouge under the leadership of Prime Minister of Democratic Kampuchea,...

is a series of ongoing persecutions and killings of the Muslim Rohingya people by the military of Myanmar. The genocide has consisted of two phases to...

A Buddhist temple or Buddhist monastery is the place of worship for Buddhists, the followers of Buddhism. They include the structures called vihara, chaitya...