The Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, prophesied in the Mahaparinirvana Sutra that after his parinirvana, demon kings would reincarnate as monks, nuns, laymen, and laywomen to disrupt and corrupt the Buddhist Dharma.
We naturally have no way to determine exactly whom the Buddha meant. Yet the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) destruction of Buddhism did indeed begin by using its United Front tactics to co-opt some members of the clergy. It even dispatched underground Party members to infiltrate religious institutions and undermine them from within.
During a criticism session in the Cultural Revolution, someone questioned Zhao Puchu, then vice president of the Buddhist Association of China: “You are a Communist Party member, so why do you believe in Buddhism?”
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