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    The Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism was discovered by British archaeologist Aurel Stein in Mogao Caves. The Tang Dynasty Manichean Dunhuang Manuscripts...
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    the Roman Dominate, Manichaeism was persecuted by the Roman state and was eventually stamped out in the Roman Empire. Manichaeism survived longer in the...
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    message of Buddha. Giovanni Verardi notes that Manichaeism is the prime source for comparisons between Buddhism and Gnosticism, Manichaeism representing...
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  • doctrine of how this world was created. Parts of this scripture are also quoted in the Dunhuang document "Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism": "The Nimman...
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    2009). Manichaeism and Its Legacy. BRILL. pp. 13–. ISBN 978-90-04-17574-7. Retrieved 27 August 2012. Widengren, Geo (1961). Mani and Manichaeism. London:...
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  • manuscripts of the Tang dynasty found in the Buddhist scripture cave of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism...
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  • Dunhuang manuscript, "Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism" begins with Mar Adda asking Mani about the origin of the world. Manichaeism Mani Mar Sisin Cologne...
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    Demon (redirect from Demons in Manichaeism)
    spirits. Manichaeism was a major religion founded in the third century AD by the Parthian prophet Mani (c. 216–274 AD), in the Sasanian Empire. One of its...
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    Empire, Gnostic ideas spread as far as China via the related movement Manichaeism, while Mandaeism, the only surviving Gnostic religion from antiquity...
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  • message of Buddha. Giovanni Verardi notes that Manichaeism is the prime source for comparisons between Buddhism and Gnosticism, Manichaeism representing...
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  • Kenoma (category All articles with incomplete citations)
    Employing a third concept of cosmos, what is manifest, Valentinian initiates could explain scripture in light of these three aspects of correlated existence...
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    to be a "People of the Book" by Muslims. Zoroastrianism is often compared with Manichaeism. Nominally an Iranian religion, Manichaeism was heavily inspired...
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  • Adam Kadmon (category All articles with incomplete citations)
    Gnostic original man to Manichaeism was probably the older Mandaean conception, which may have exercised great influence. Of this conception, however...
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  • 11.1 The Mexican Democide Line 39". Statistics of Mexican Democide. Lieu, S. N. C. L. (1998). Manichaeism in Central Asia and China. Brill Publishers. p...
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  • Italy and Southern Gaul. Ptolemy's works have reached us in an incomplete form in a fragment of an exegetical writing preserved by Irenæus; as well as an epistle...
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    Xiabuzan (category Chinese Manichaeism)
    Manichaeans. Many of the contents are dedicated to the Yishu (Jesus), and the hymn to the highest deity of Manichaeism. After Manichaeism was introduced...
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    basis of Scripture, resulting in the Formula, which over 8,000 leaders signed. The Book of Concord replaced earlier, incomplete collections of doctrine...
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  • and Gnosticism and the heir to Manichaeism. Gnostic cosmology identified two creator deities. The first was the creator of the spiritual realm contained...
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    Zoroaster (redirect from Date of Zoroaster)
    Variously described as a sage or a wonderworker; in the oldest Zoroastrian scriptures, the Gathas, which he is believed to have authored, he is described as...
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    themselves have forged, to bewilder the minds of foolish people, who are ignorant of the true scriptures"—scriptures which Irenaeus himself helped to establish...
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    Foundation of Ancient Research and Mormon Studies. ISBN 0934893500. Ehrman, Bart D. (2003). Lost Christianities: The Battles for Scripture and the Faiths...
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    to the Qocho Idiqut as the "King of China". The Uyghur ruling family of Qocho were mainly practitioners of Manichaeism until the early 11th century, although...
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  • Ziwa (The Baptism of Hibil Ziwa) (DC 35) Alf trisar šuialia (The 1012 Questions) (DC 36 [complete, with all 7 books], DC 6 [incomplete]) Šarh d-qabin d-Šišlam...
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    influences in Manichaeism, Richard Foltz attributes Mani's teaching of reincarnation to Buddhist influence. However the inter-relation of Manicheanism...
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  • reading and proclamation of scripture. Sykes nevertheless agrees with those heirs of Maurice who emphasise the incompleteness of Anglicanism as a positive...
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    dualism by insisting on the good origin of all things. This contrasts with alternative views, such as Manichaeism, proposing absolute evil as an entirely...
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  • Bogomilism (category All articles with incomplete citations)
    Bulgarian lands (Manichaeism and Paulicianism), which were considered very dualistic, influenced the Bogomil movement. Manichaeism's origin is related...
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  • Jewish traditions and scripture, but often challenges or subverts them. Its retelling "characteristically 'inverts' the meaning of Genesis." Norea is not...
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    Manichaeism, the Buddha is listed among the prophets who preached the word of God before Mani. In Sikhism, Buddha is mentioned as the 23rd avatar of Vishnu...
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    Khazars (redirect from Kingdom of Khazaria)
    their leader converted in the 10th century; the Uyğur Qağan accepted Manichaeism in 762. Golden takes exception to J. B. Bury's claim (1912) that it was...
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