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   Religious Policy and the Three Teachings
   Under Emperor Wu of Northern Zhou ($\text{r. 561–578 \text{CE}}$), the state briefly pursued a policy of promoting the "Three Teachings": Buddhism, Daoism, and Confucianism. This syncretism was intended to solidify ethnic unity among the diverse ruling elite and subject populations.
   However, by $\text{574 \text{CE}}$, Emperor Wu initiated a severe Anti-Buddhist Persecution. The rationale, as recorded in contemporary chronicles, was that Buddhism had become an excessive drain on state resources and that i…