tradition,suppression_event,year,nature,reemergence_event,years_to_reemergence,source,display_year
Confucianism,Qin book-burning,-213,Systematic destruction of Confucian texts; scholars buried alive,Han dynasty Confucian revival,30,Fung 1952 History of Chinese Philosophy,213 BC
Greek philosophy,Justinian closes Athenian schools,529,Imperial order shuts the Academy; philosophers flee to Persia,Islamic preservation (Baghdad House of Wisdom) and transmission back to Europe,200,O'Meara 2003; Gutas 1998,529 AD
Greek philosophy,Christian antipagan reaction — Library of Alexandria destruction phases,400,Library of Alexandria destruction phases; classical texts lost in Christian imperial context,European scholastic revival via Islamic transmission,700,Gutas 1998; Canfora 'The Vanished Library' 1989,c. 400 AD
Hebrew tradition,Babylonian exile,-586,Temple destroyed; population deported,Return and rebuilding; codification of Torah,70,Standard biblical/historical consensus,586 BC
Hebrew tradition,Destruction of Second Temple,70,Center of practice destroyed; priesthood ends,Rabbinic Judaism forms; Mishnah codified,130,Standard historical consensus,70 AD
Christianity,Neronian persecution,64,Targeted killing; leaders executed,Movement continues and expands,0,Tacitus; Eusebius,64 AD
Christianity,Diocletianic persecution,303,"Empire-wide systematic persecution, last and most severe",Constantine's Edict of Milan (313),10,Eusebius; Lactantius,303 AD
Christianity (liberation/ethical core),Slave Bible,1807,"Excision of Exodus, prophetic liberation passages for slaves in British Caribbean",Black church oral transmission; full Bible access after emancipation,0 (ongoing underground),Raboteau 1978; Callahan 2006,1807 AD
Buddhism,"Muslim invasions of India, destruction of Nalanda",1200,Nalanda destroyed; Buddhism near-extinct in Indian homeland,Continued flourishing elsewhere; 20th-c Indian revival (Ambedkar),700,Standard Buddhist historical scholarship,1200 AD
Buddhism,Cultural Revolution in China,1966,"Systematic destruction of temples, texts, practitioners",Post-Mao gradual return,15,Contemporary Chinese religious studies,1966 AD
Radical Jesus tradition (within Christianity),Institutional Christendom co-option,313,"Ethical radicalism domesticated under imperial church, recurring",Franciscans (1209) + Anabaptists (1525) + Quakers (1650s) + abolitionists (1780s) + MLK (1960s) + liberation theology (1960s-70s),Recurring ~200-400 year cycles,Church history; reform-movement scholarship,313 AD