Wuzong believed Buddhism threatened the Confucian state and the imperial order. Buddhism was illegal under the Tang. Buddhist monks and nuns routinely protested the religious intolerance of the Tang. Many civil servants in the bureaucracy were Buddhist, which threatened Tang control.

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