sentences:  During this time, followers of Christianity, Judaism, Manichaeanism and Zoroastrianism  were persecuted as well.The ban was not a complete ban; two Buddhist temples were permitted in both the main capital Chang'an and the subsidiary capital Luoyang, and the large municipalities and each circuit were each allowed to maintain one temple with no more than 20 monks.More than 4,600 temples were destroyed empirewide, and more than 260,000 monks and nuns were forced to return to civilian life.