Why were many Buddhist monasteries were destroyed in the ninth century?

What will be an ideal response?


ANSWER:
Because they were tax-exempt, monasteries had accrued land, labor in the form of serfs, and objects. The government wanted the land and the laborers returned to the tax rosters.

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