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Religions
Beliefs, cults and practices.
- Buddhism among the Göktürk minimal The religion to which Taspar Khan was converted by a Chinese monk in the 570s, which no other Göktürk of the First Khaganate is recorded as adopting, and which the Bugut inscription is held to profess.
- Manichaeism The religion of Mani, carried by the Sogdians to China and the steppe and adopted by the Uyghur khan at Luoyang in 762 and 763; the official religion, at times, of the hu in China, and the shield of the Sogdians there until 840.
- Tengrism Modern name for the sky-centred religion of the Old Turkic peoples, whose attested core is Teŋri, the fortune he grants, and the sacred Earth-and-Water.