14 Facts About Manichaean

The seventh, the Shabuhragan, was written by Mani in Middle Persian and presented by him to the Sasanian emperor, Shapur I Although there is no proof Shapur I was a Manichaean, he tolerated the spread of Manichaeism and refrained from persecuting it within his empire's boundaries.

Manichaean writings indicate that Mani received revelations when he was 12 and again when he was 24, and over this period he grew dissatisfied with the Elcesaite sect he was born into.

Manichaean claimed to be the Paraclete of the Truth, as promised by Jesus in the New Testament.

Manichaean tradition is noted to have claimed that Mani was the reincarnation of different religious figures such as Buddha, Krishna, Zoroaster, and Jesus.

Manichaean monasteries existed in Rome in 312 during the time of Pope Miltiades.

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Manichaean temples were attacked by Chinese people who burned the images and idols of these temples.

Manichaean priests were ordered to wear hanfu instead of their traditional clothing, which was viewed as un-Chinese.

Manichaean appointed a "master of the heretics", an official whose task was to pursue and investigate suspected dualists, who were then examined by the Caliph.

Manichaean pamphlets were still in circulation in Greek in 9th-century Byzantine Constantinople, as the patriarch Photios summarizes and discusses one that he has read by Agapius in his Bibliotheca.

The Cao'an temple is the most widely known, and best preserved Manichaean building, though it later became associated with Buddhism.

Therefore, the Manichaean view explained the existence of evil by positing a flawed creation in the formation of which God took no part and which constituted rather the product of a battle by the devil against God.

Manichaean Church was divided into the Elect, who had taken upon themselves the vows of Manichaeism, and the Hearers, those who had not, but still participated in the Church.

Manichaean settled in Egypt, where he became acquainted with "the wisdom of the Egyptians", and invented the religious system that was afterwards known as Manichaeism.

Manichaean succeeded in escaping, but eventually fell into the hands of the king, by whose order he was flayed, and his corpse was hung up at the city gate.