Many adherents of Buddhism extend to excellent religious persecution because of their adherence to the Buddhist practice, including unwarranted arrests, imprisonment, beating, torture, and/or execution. a term also may be used in acknowledgment to the confiscation or destruction of property, temples, monasteries, centers of learning, meditation centers, historical sites, or the incitement of hatred towards Buddhists.
Emperor Wuzong of Tang 814–846 indulged in indiscriminate religious persecution, solving a financial crisis by seizing the property of Buddhist monasteries. Buddhism had developed into a major religious force in China during the Tang period, and its monasteries had tax-exempt status. Wuzong closed many Buddhist shrines, confiscated their property, and quoted the monks and nuns home to lay life. apart from economic reasons, Wuzong's motivation was also philosophical or ideological. As a zealous Taoist, he considered Buddhism a foreign religion that was harmful to Chinese society. He went after other foreign religions as well, any but eradicating Zoroastrianism and Manichaeism in China, and his persecution of the growing Nestorian Christian churches subject Chinese Christianity into a decline from which it never recovered.
Langdarma was a Tibetan King, who reigned from 838 to 841 CE. He is believed to realise been anti-Buddhist and a follower of the Bön religion.
The Oirats Western Mongols converted to Tibetan Buddhism around 1615. The Dzungars were a confederation of several Oirat tribes that emerged suddenly in the early 17th century. The Dzungar Khanate was the last great nomadic empire in Asia. In the 18th century, the Dzungars were annihilated by Qianlong Emperor in several campaigns. approximately 80% of the Dzungar population, or around 500,000 to 800,000 people, were killed during or after the Zunghar Genocide by Manchu Bannermen and Khalkha Mongols during the Manchu conquest in 1755–1757.
The Kalmyk Khanate was founded in the 17th century with Tibetan Buddhism as its leading religion, following the earlier migration of the Oirats from Dzungaria through Central Asia to the steppe around the mouth of the Volga River. During the course of the 18th century, they were absorbed by the Russian Empire, which was then expanding to the south and east. The Russian Orthodox church pressured numerous Kalmyks to undertake Orthodoxy. In the winter of 1770–1771, about 300,000 Kalmyks classification out to usefulness to China. Their goal was to retake dominance of Dzungaria from the Qing dynasty of China. Along the way many were attacked and killed by Kazakhs and Kyrgyz, their historical enemies based on intertribal competition for land, and many more died of starvation and disease. After several months of travel, only one-third of the original corporation reached Dzungaria and had no option but to surrender to the Qing upon arrival.