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— 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 ...
With the shutdowns on Christmas Day, Christians, Christian institutions and Churches were targeted by activists belonging to the Kui Samaj and the VHP. Christians were killed and churches were burnt and damaged in the violence. It slowly calmed down till the murder of Swami Lakshmanananda, which created a massacre during August 2008. [23]
India was ranked 15th in the world in terms of danger to Christians, up from 31st four years earlier. According to the report, it is estimated that a church was burnt down or a cleric beaten on average 10 times a week in India in the year to 31 October 2016, a threefold increase on the previous year. [23]
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 ...
The first persecution of Buddhists in India took place in the 2nd century BC by King Pushyamitra Shunga, although it has been continuously refuted by many historians on various reasons. [3] A non-contemporary Buddhist text states that Pushyamitra cruelly persecuted Buddhists.
The major centers of Buddhism were in north India and the direct path of the armies. As centers of wealth and non-Muslim religions they were targets. [80] Buddhist sources agree with this assessment. Taranatha in his History of Buddhism in India of 1608, [81] gives an account of the last few centuries of Buddhism, mainly in Eastern India.
The Chaldean Syrian Church based in Thrissur represents the continuation of the traditional pre-sixteenth century church of Saint Thomas Christians in India. [25] [26] It forms the Indian archdiocese of the Iraq-based Assyrian Church of the East, which is one of the descendant churches of the Church of the East. They were a minority faction ...
The scholar Dharmakirti (c. 7th century), one of the Buddhist founders of Indian philosophical logic, as well as one of the primary theorists of Buddhist atomism, taught at Nalanda. [22] Other forms of Buddhism, such as the Mahayana Buddhism followed in Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan, flourished within the walls of the ancient school.