The Manichean Compendium is a Manichaean manuscript found in the Mogao Caves. It is a manuscript expounding the doctrine of Manicheaism. It was written...

at its height was one of the most widespread religions in the world. Manichaean churches and scriptures existed as far east as China and as far west as...

the nature of the soul using Christian apocryphal imagery In the Manichaean Compendium these seven scriptures are compared to ships: Power, make seven...

Compendium of the Teachings of Mani, the Awakened One of Light. The text interprets the prophet Mani as an incarnation of Laozi (although Manichaeans...

endonym Pārsīk or Pārsīg (Inscriptional Pahlavi script: 𐭯𐭠𐭫𐭮𐭩𐭪, Manichaean script: 𐫛𐫀𐫡𐫘𐫏𐫐‎, Avestan script: 𐬞𐬀𐬭𐬯𐬍𐬐) in its later form...

Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang. Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism Manichaean Compendium Irk Bitig a Turkic divination text...

"Universal Divine Time" (Zurvan), in a Zurvanic tetrad before the Ohrmazd. Manichaean doctrines derived many aspects from Zoroastrian terminology and thought...

a Manichaean priest was asked by the current Chinese emperor to make a summary of Manichaean religious doctrines, so that he wrote the Compendium of...

and treat Manichaeism preferentially. Later, the translated book "Manichaean Compendium" was banned by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty because it borrowed...

account in Fihrist by Ibn al-Nadim, purportedly by al-Biruni, or were anti-Manichaean polemics, such as the 4th-century Acta Archelai. Among these medieval...

Le Coq. One of these may be a Buddhist text. One other manuscript, in Manichaean script, was found at Qočo by Mary Boyce in 1958. Over 150 legal documents...

like a Buddhist scripture in the Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll. Chinese Manichaeism Manichaean Compendium Fragmented pages of Manichaen manuscripts...

written by the Tang emperor Taizong kept carefully secured. There's also a Manichaean temple, with Persian monks who keep their own religious law and call the...

Epiphanius of Salamis (ch. 26), and Theodoret's Haereticarum Fabularum Compendium, the Borborites or Borborians (Greek: Βορβοριανοί; in Egypt, Phibionites;...

dēwān, which means "Letter Collection". They have been long known among Manichaean scriptures They were originally written during the years of Mani’s public...

Living and variants) was a 3rd-century gnostic gospel written by the Manichaean prophet Mani. It was originally written in Syriac and called the Evangelion...

Middle Persian literature include the 'Manichaean Middle Persian' corpus, used for a sizable amount of Manichaean religious writings, including many theological...

around the nature of the soul, or otherwise as an exegetical work In the Manichaean canon, the Pragmateia, the Book of Mysteries, and the Book of Giants are...

Encyclopedia, Volume 9. Appleton. 1910. p. 596. Henning, W.B. (1952). The Compendium of the Doctrines and styles of the Teaching of Mani, the Buddha of Light...

doctrine of the coexistence of light and dark. Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll Manichaean Compendium "Tang Manuscript "Mani敎经》" (PDF). nlc.cn (in Simplified...

Henning, The Compendium of the Doctrines and Styles of the Teaching of Mani, the Buddha of Light, p. 208. Mary Boyce, A Word-List of Manichaean Middle Persian...

divinity "Infinite Time" was well established, and – as inferred from a Manichaean text presented to Shapur I, in which the name Zurvan was adopted for Manichaeism's...

originals found in the Psalms of Thomas, it is now believed that the pre-Manichaean presence of the Mandaean religion is more than likely.: IX  The Valentinians...

of the 'Church of the East'". Nestorian.org. Lieu, Sam; Parry, Ken. "Manichaean and (Nestorian) Christian Remains in Zayton (Quanzhou, South China)"....

literary languages by the Manichaeans, whose texts also survive in various non-Iranian languages, from Latin to Chinese. Manichaean texts were written in...

attested in Aramaic-derived scripts (Pahlavi and Manichaean) on inscriptions and in Zoroastrian and Manichaean scriptures from between the third to the tenth...

The Kitāb al-Fihrist (Arabic: كتاب الفهرست) (The Book Catalogue) is a compendium of the knowledge and literature of tenth-century Islam compiled by Ibn...

Operation of Demons), which offered a demonic taxonomy as part of an anti-Manichaean dialogue. He wrote a treatise on alchemy, theurgy (summoning spirits)...

slanting Brahmi. However a smaller amount was written in the Manichaean script in which Manichaean texts were recorded. It soon became apparent that a large...

ISBN 978-1-938476-00-6. OCLC 864905792. Shapira, Dan D.Y. (2004). "Manichaeans (Marmanaiia), Zoroastrians (Iazuqaiia), Jews, Christians and Other Heretics:...