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For 2012, [11] there were 93 deaths in India from many incidences of communal violence (or 0.007 fatalities per 100,000 people). Of these, 48 were Muslims, 44 Hindus and one police official. The riots also injured 2,067 people, of which 1,010 were Hindus, 787 Muslims, 222 police officials and 48 others.
According to government reports the violence resulted in at least 39 Christians killed and 3906 Christian houses completely destroyed. [40] Reports state, more than 395 churches were razed or burnt down, [41] over 5,600 – 6,500 houses plundered or burnt down, over 600 villages ransacked and more than 60,000 – 75,000 people left homeless.
In May 1963, the government forbade the flying of Buddhist flags on Vesak. After Buddhist protesters clashed with government troops, nine people were killed. [197] In protest, the Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon. [198] On 21 August, the Xá Lợi Pagoda raids led to a death toll estimated in the hundreds.
The prevailing view of decline of Buddhism in India is summed by A. L. Basham's classic study which argues that the main cause was the rise of an ancient Hindu religion again, "Hinduism", which focused on the worship of deities like Shiva and Vishnu and became more popular among the common people while Buddhism, being focused on monastery life ...
— Extract from the Saldanha Commission report into the background of religious tensions in the Dakshina Kannada district. Activists belonging to the Bajrang Dal protested outside the gates of St Aloysius College on 29 August. Several explanations of the cause of the September 2008 attacks have been postulated. Many Christians believe that the attacks were a direct response from right-wing ...
The 2008 Kandhamal violence refers to widespread violence against Christians purportedly incited by Hindutva organisations in the Kandhamal district of Orissa, India, in August 2008 after the murder of the Hindu monk Lakshmanananda Saraswati. [1] According to government reports the violence resulted in at least 39 Christians killed. [2]
Like the Buddhist texts, this has raised questions about reliability and whether the current Nalanda is same as the one in Jaina texts. [8] According to Scharfe, though the Buddhist and Jaina texts generate problems with place identification, it is "virtually certain" that the modern Nalanda is near or the site these texts are referring to. [46]
The 2012 Ramu violence refers to a series of attacks on Buddhist monasteries, shrines, and houses of Buddhist inhabitants in Ramu Upazila [1] in Cox's Bazar District [2] in Bangladesh by local mobs on the midnight past 29 September 2012. The mobs destroyed 12 Buddhist temples and monasteries and 50 houses in reaction to a tagging of an image ...