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The Dunhuang Manichaean texts refers to three Manichaean manuscripts of the Tang dynasty found in the Buddhist scripture cave of Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang.[1]

  • Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll
  • Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism
  • Manichaean Compendium
  • Irk Bitig a Turkic divination text written in the manichaean script. May have been used syncretically by manichaeans[2]
  1. ^ Rui Chuanming (December 2014). "Manichaeism Dunhuang and Turpan Manuscript Translation and Research". Eurasian History and Culture Library (in Simplified Chinese). Lanzhou: 兰州大学出版社. ISBN 9787311046682.
  2. ^ Tekin, Talat (1993). Irk bitig (the book of omens) (PDF). Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz. ISBN 978-3-447-03426-5.

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