Manichaeism (in Modern Persian آیین مانی Āyin e Māni) was a major Iranian universal dualistic monotheistic religion founded in the mid 3rd-century CE by...

currently has 345 lines and about 7,000 characters. It is the only Chinese Manichean classic in China. The writing is similar to a scripture. The content uses...

There are nine main books as part of the Manichean scripture: seven of them are the Seven Treatises, which were written by Mani himself in the Syriac...

harming any living creatures, dry and damp earth, grass, and trees. The Manicheans believed in two sets of five gods. The first set consists of the sons...

other Gospels used by groups like the Marcionites, Bardesanites, and Manicheans. He said that the contradictions in these texts made them unreliable....