buddha, buddha statue, chinese communist party, cultural revolution, karma

One Man’s Karma for Destroying a Buddha Statue

From the moment the Chinese Communist Party was established, it advocated atheism. This was especially true during the Cultural Revolution, when numerous Buddhist temples, Taoist shrines, churches, and other places of worship were destroyed, while countless Buddha statues and religious relics were smashed and burned. However, those who were influenced by the Party culture to ...

Armin Auctor

Burning Buddhist artifacts.

One Reaps What One Sows

There is a saying: “One reaps what one sows.” It is customary for the Chinese to go to temples at the beginning of the new year. Popular temples are packed all day with crowds that are eager to light incense and pray for a good year to come. However, it was not like this during ...

Nspirement Staff

The Red Guards destroying Buddha statues.

The Demise of the Historian and Poet Chen Yinke

The Chinese Communist Party (CCP) developed from the root belief that materialism stood above all. Out of this belief, that the body is nothing more than its parts, slowly grew a force that in its roots opposed traditional Chinese culture and its reverence for the divine and the soul. Anything and anyone who opposed the ...

Hermann Rohr

China’s Destruction of Cultural Sites During the Cultural Revolution

In China, during the Cultural Revolution, much damage was done to both the Chinese people and China’s traditional culture. Temples were looted. Relics, temples, scrolls, and books containing vast amounts of cultural heritage were burned and destroyed under the red gaze of the Cultural Revolution. What many people don’t know is that the Cultural Revolution ...

Hermann Rohr

Red Guards destroying a Buddha statue at the Famen Temple