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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Dunhuang Manichaean texts (redirect from Manichaeism Dunhuang Chinese Documents)
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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Gnosticism (redirect from History of Gnosticism)
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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Buddhism and Gnosticism (section Manichaeism)
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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Zoroastrianism (redirect from History of Zoroastrianism)
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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Lutheranism (section Role of Tradition)
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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Catharism (redirect from The massacre of the Cathars)
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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Qocho (redirect from Kingdom of Qocho)
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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Reincarnation (redirect from Transmigration of souls)
influences in Manichaeism, Richard Foltz attributes Mani's teaching of reincarnation to Buddhist influence. However the inter-relation of Manicheanism...
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Anglicanism (redirect from Catholicity of the Anglican Church)
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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Fallen angel (redirect from Fall of the angels)
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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The Buddha (redirect from The life of the Buddha)
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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