Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution

Huichang event reference

Record whether a source uses Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution or Huichang persecution for the broader campaign or a narrower episode.

1. What dates and actions does this source include under its name for the persecution? definition
2. Does this reference identify Wuzong's campaign, another imperial persecution or a collective category? boundary

Dated campaign sequence

Represent restrictions, intensified measures and reversals as individually dated actions with explicit calendar conversions.

1. What original date supports each restriction or reversal, and how was it converted to the CE calendar? measurement
2. Does the recorded date mark promulgation, local implementation or retrospective reporting? provenance

Directive and motive attribution

Record the content and attribution of directives while treating fiscal, religious and political explanations as claims requiring support.

1. Which surviving text identifies the issuing authority, targets and required actions of this directive? provenance
2. Is a proposed fiscal, religious or political motive stated in contemporary evidence or inferred by a later interpreter? provenance

Documented enforcement path

Connect implementing actors to particular monasteries or communities and retain evidence of exemptions, delay or noncompliance.

1. What evidence shows that a named official or jurisdiction implemented this measure against a particular target? provenance
2. What evidence permits an agent to classify the measure as implemented, exempted, evaded or unknown? action

Targeted persons and status changes

Distinguish compulsory return to lay status, displacement and other documented treatment without inferring physical injury from administrative categories.

1. Which categories of monks, nuns or other persons were targeted, and what exemptions did the measure specify? definition
2. What evidence establishes the actual status change or treatment of those persons beyond the order itself? provenance
3. If another religious community appears in the account, what connects its treatment to this campaign? boundary

Institution and asset disposition

Record closure, demolition, repurposing, confiscation and material reuse as distinct actions tied to identifiable institutions or holdings.

1. Does the evidence describe withdrawal of authorization, closure, physical demolition or a combination of these? definition
2. What became of the institution's land, buildings, images, texts or other assets, and which source traces that disposition? provenance

Claim transmission and perspective

Attach claims to passages and distinguish eyewitness observation, transmitted directives, retrospective compilation and modern interpretation.

1. Who produced the account, when, and with what access to the event being described? provenance
2. Are corroborating accounts independent, or do they reproduce the same earlier passage or translation? provenance

Comparable suppression totals

Record reported numbers without assuming that monasteries, temples, shrines or clerical categories are interchangeable or mutually exclusive.

1. What original term, geographical coverage and reporting interval define each reported count? measurement
2. What overlap, source dependence or uncertainty must be resolved before an agent can combine these quantities? action

Restoration versus continuity

Distinguish uninterrupted survival, legal reopening, physical reconstruction and restoration of holdings.

1. Which evidence establishes when a particular restriction ceased to apply? provenance
2. Did an affected institution resume religious activity, recover its property or only retain its name or site? measurement

Bounded consequence claims

Evaluate proposed lasting effects through dated evidence and plausible mechanisms while retaining alternative explanations.

1. What evidence connects a claimed later decline, survival pattern or redistribution to this persecution? provenance
2. Where does a consequence claim extend beyond this event into the independent history of a Buddhist tradition or institution? boundary
3. What additional evidence would justify accepting, qualifying or rejecting the proposed causal connection? action

Check these first

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these check these first hold for the sense of Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Standards and regulation

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these standards and regulation hold for the sense of Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Real-world use

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Failure modes and hazards

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance

Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart

Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.

1. Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution this model covers, and on what evidence? provenance