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[Jincheng was a devout Buddhist and, in 737, she gave asylum to Buddhist refugee monks fleeing an anti-Buddhist persecution in Khotan.]
A Survey of Tibetan History ��� 1 The Empire of the Early Kings of Tibet 2009
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As the anti-Buddhist perspectives of these texts came to be ever more influential throughout the seventeenth century, an increasingly common theme in Japanese Neo-Confucian discourse was its relationship, positive or negative, to Buddhism.
Japanese Confucian Philosophy Tucker, John 2008
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But in 1963, a Vietnamese monk set himself on fire to protest the anti-Buddhist bias of South Vietnam's U. S.-backed Roman Catholic president, Ngo Dinh Diem.
How Buddhism Became 2007
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Despite the strong anti-Buddhist and anti-Jain words of The Kalki Purana, Hindus never launched a pogrom against either group, or severely persecuted them under their rule.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Abridged Analysis) 2006
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Although most earlier Hephthalite rulers were patrons of Buddhism, Mihirakula was anti-Buddhist and his attacks on the monasteries were supposedly fomented by Manichaean and Nestorian Christian ministers.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006
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Despite the strong anti-Buddhist and anti-Jain words of The Kalki Purana, Hindus never launched a pogrom against either group, or severely persecuted them under their rule.
The Kalachakra Presentation of the Prophets of the Non-Indic Invaders (Full Analysis) 2006
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In 720, an anti-Buddhist sympathizer of the Tang Emperor deposed the local Buddhist king of Khotan and took the throne.
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In short, the so-called anti-Buddhist “Bon” faction that later contributed to rendering the visit of the Muslim cleric insignificant was neither a religiously nor a regionally defined group.
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Although they might have used religious grounds to justify their anti-Buddhist policy recommendations -- for instance, a Buddhist presence would anger the traditional gods and bring disaster -- this does not imply that they necessarily supported the entire native religious tradition.
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The anti-Buddhist sentiment of the so-called “Bon” faction was also not a sign of Zhang-zhung insurrection.
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