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[42] [49] [45] Many monuments of ancient Indian civilization were destroyed by the invading armies, including Buddhist sanctuaries [50] near Benares. Buddhist monks who escaped the massacre fled to Nepal, Tibet and South India. [51] Tamerlane destroyed Buddhist establishments and raided areas in which Buddhism had flourished. [52] [53]
According to an article in Buddhist-Christian Studies: [104] Over the course of the last decade [1990s] a fairly large number of Buddhist temples in South Korea have been destroyed or damaged by fire by Christian fundamentalists. More recently, Buddhist statues have been identified as idols, and attacked and decapitated in the name of Jesus.
Numerous ancient and medieval sites and artifacts, including the ancient cities of Nimrud and Hatra, parts of the wall of Nineveh, the ruins of Bash Tapia Castle and Dair Mar Elia, and artifacts from the Mosul Museum were also destroyed. However, from 2018, a year after IS was defeated and driven out of Mosul, many churches, mosques and ...
The Taliban destroyed Afghanistan's Bamiyan Buddhas in early 2001. Now they're guarding the site and welcoming tourists.
These attacks and demolitions targeted a variety of ancient and medieval artifacts, museums, libraries, and places of worship, among other sites of importance to human history. Between June 2014 and February 2015, the Islamic State's Salafi jihadists plundered and destroyed at least 28 historic religious buildings in Mosul alone. [ 1 ]
Kushan-era Buddhist stupas and statues in Swat valley were demolished by the foreign-funded Taliban and after two attempts by them, the Jehanabad Buddha's face was destroyed by dynamite. [ 73 ] [ 74 ] [ 75 ] Only the Bamiyan Buddhas were larger than the carved giant Buddha statue in Swat near Mangalore. [ 76 ]
Buddhism had flourished greatly during the Tang period, and its monasteries enjoyed tax-exempt status. In 845, Wuzong closed many Buddhist shrines, confiscated their property, and sent the monks and nuns home to lay life. Social reasons: Confucian intellectuals such as Han Yu railed against Buddhism for undermining the social structure of China ...
The Buddhist remnants at Bamyan were included on the 2008 World Monuments Watch List of the 100 Most Endangered Sites by the World Monuments Fund. In 2013, the foot section of the smaller Buddha was rebuilt with iron rods, bricks and concrete by the German branch of ICOMOS . [ 84 ]