Above: "Yilue" first volume; Bottom: "Yilue" second volume
Material
paper
Writing
Middle Chinese
Created
731 AD
Discovered
In Dunhuang Mogao Cave Buddhist scripture cave in 1907 and 1908 respectively
Present location
The first volume is located in London British Library; the second volume is located in Paris French National Library
Identification
Volume up: S.3969; Volume down: P.3884
The Manichean Compendium is a Manichaean manuscript found in the Mogao Caves. It is a manuscript expounding the doctrine of Manicheaism. It was written in the reign of Emperor Xuanzong of Tang by the Persian missionary Fuduo in 731. It briefly summarizes the basic teachings and rituals of the religion, and is an introductory document for understanding Manichaeism. [1]
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 the Han Dynasty and as...
the nature of the soul using Christian apocryphal imagery In the ManichaeanCompendium 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...
Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll Incomplete scripture of Manichaeism ManichaeanCompendium Irk Bitig a Turkic divination text written in the manichaean script...
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...
"Universal Divine Time" (Zurvan), in a Zurvanic tetrad before the Ohrmazd. Manichaean doctrines derived many aspects from Zoroastrian terminology and thought...
and treat Manichaeism preferentially. Later, the translated book "ManichaeanCompendium" was banned by Emperor Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty because it borrowed...
doctrine of the coexistence of light and dark. Chinese Manichaean hymn scroll ManichaeanCompendium "Tang Manuscript "Mani敎经》" (PDF). nlc.cn (in Simplified...
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...
Middle Persian literature include the 'Manichaean Middle Persian' corpus, used for a sizable amount of Manichaean religious writings, including many theological...
attested in Aramaic-derived scripts (Pahlavi and Manichaean) on inscriptions and in Zoroastrian and Manichaean scriptures from between the third to the tenth...
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...
literary languages by the Manichaeans, whose texts also survive in various non-Iranian languages, from Latin to Chinese. Manichaean texts were written in...
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;...
of the 'Church of the East'". Nestorian.org. Lieu, Sam; Parry, Ken. "Manichaean and (Nestorian) Christian Remains in Zayton (Quanzhou, South China)"....
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...
come from one God, a position especially opposed by the Manichaeans. Ibn al-Muqaffa', a Manichaean apologist who later converted to Islam, depicted the Abrahamic...
The Compendium of Materia Medica is a pharmaceutical text written by Li Shizhen (1518–1593 CE) during the Ming dynasty of China. This edition was published...
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...
Operation of Demons), which offered a demonic taxonomy as part of an anti-Manichaean dialogue. He wrote a treatise on alchemy, theurgy (summoning spirits)...
corpuscle) Malthusian – Thomas Malthus (as in Malthusian catastrophe) Manichaean – Mani manueline – Manuel I of Portugal Maoist – Mao Zedong Marcan – Saint...
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