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Edict to kill Buddhist monks and destroy images

The Wei shu basic annals record that in the third lunar month of Taiping Zhenjun 7 (AD 446) an edict ordered the provinces to put the Buddhist monks (shamen 沙門) to death (keng 坑, literally 'bury in pits') and to destroy the Buddhist images.

Limits: An official history compiled 551-554 by Wei Shou under the Northern Qi from Northern Wei records; the English is an AI working translation. The annals give no numbers and do not record here how far the order was carried out.

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Source: Wei shu (Book of Wei), basic annalsRead the source