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The perpetrators of are the Bangladeshi military and the Bengali Muslim settlers, who together have burned down Buddhist and Hindu temples, killed many Chakmas, and carried out a policy of gang-rape against the indigenous people. There are also accusations of Chakmas being forced to convert to Islam, many of them children who have been abducted ...
In 1982, St Ninian's Church was bought for £200,000 and a temple built on its 2.5 acre compound. [27] [28] [29] BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Scarborough Scarborough, ON: Canada: A 100-year-old church in Scarborough was declared a heritage structure by the Canadian government. The church was built over 9,000 sq ft, included a community hall ...
Reports indicate that more than 395 churches were razed or burnt down, [3] between 5,600–6,500 houses plundered or burnt down, over 600 villages ransacked and more than 60,000 – 75,000 people left homeless. [4] [5] [6] Other reports put the death toll at nearly 100 and suggested more than 40 women were sexually assaulted.
Hwangnyongsa, a Buddhist temple in Gyeongju which dates back to the 7th century, was burned down by the Mongolians during their invasion in 1238. Hundreds of Buddhist monasteries were shut down or destroyed during the Joseon period as a part of anti-Buddhism policy .
The state and the Sangha (Buddhist clergy) have maintained a close and reciprocal relationship, with the legitimacy of kingship being conferred only on Buddhists for the purpose of protecting Buddhism. [292] Consequently, Buddhism is given "the foremost place" in the country's constitution, making it the duty of the state to protect and foster it.
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 2008 attacks on Christians in southern Karnataka were the wave of attacks directed against Christian churches and prayer halls in the Indian city of Mangalore and the surrounding area of southern Karnataka in September and October 2008 by Hindu nationalist organisations such as Bajrang Dal and Sri Ram Sena.
City partially destroyed, libraries sacked and burned. [21] Nalanda: Nalanda India 1193 Bakhtiyar Khilji: Nalanda University complex (the most renowned repository of Buddhist knowledge in the world at the time) was sacked by Turkic Muslim invaders under the perpetrator; this event is seen as a milestone in the decline of Buddhism in India. [22]