Langdarma (Wikipedia)

Wikipedia's article on Langdarma, community-edited. States the traditional Tibetan Buddhist account of his 841 to 842 reign as the Tibetan Empire's last unified king, the destruction of Nyingma monasteries and persecution of monks and nuns traditionally attributed to him, and his 842 assassination, credited by most sources to the monk Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje. It also names the modern historiographical dispute directly: reinterpretations published by historians, most prominently Zuiho Yamaguchi's "The Fiction of King Dar ma's Persecution of Buddhism," arguing the anti-Buddhist portrayal is a later chronicle tradition rather than a documented historical persecution. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/