High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Overall, the Mongols were highly tolerant of most religions and typically sponsored several at the same time. Though in modern times the Mongols are primarily Buddhist, during the time of the Mongol Empire they had a sustantial number of Christians, many of whom were in positions of considerable power. Many Mongols had been proselytized by Christian Nestorians from the Assyrian Church of the East, since about the 7th century. When Genghis Khan, as the young Temüjin, swore allegiance with his men at the Baljuna Covenant, there were representatives of nine tribes among the 20 men. Temüjin was a shamanist, and the others included "several Christians, three Muslims, and several Buddhists.