明教在温州的最后遗存 – 温州社会研究所 [The Last Remains of Mingjiao in Wenzhou – Wenzhou Institute of Social Research] (in Chinese). 25 August 2013. Archived from the original on 25 August 2013.
de Beausobre, Isaac (1734). Histoire critique de Manichée et du manichéisme [Critical history of Manichae and Manichaeism] (in French). Vol. 1. Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
Beausobre, Isaac de; Formey, S. (1739). Histoire critique de Manichée et du manichéisme [Critical history of Manichae and Manichaeism] (in French). Vol. 2. Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
Rong, Xinjian (24 October 2022). "Gaochang in the Second Half of the 5th Century and Its Relations with the Rouran Qaghanate and the Kingdoms of the Western Regions". The Silk Road and Cultural Exchanges between East and West. Brill. pp. 577–578. doi:10.1163/9789004512597_006. ISBN978-90-04-51259-7.
"According to the Fehrest, Mani was of Arsacid stock on both his father's and his mother's sides, at least if the readings al-ḥaskāniya (Mani's father) and al-asʿāniya (Mani's mother) are corrected to al-aškāniya and al-ašḡāniya (ed. Flügel, 1862, p. 49, ll. 2 and 3) respectively. The forefathers of Mani's father are said to have been from Hamadan and so perhaps of Iranian origin (ed. Flügel, 1862, p. 49, 5–6). The Chinese Compendium, which makes the father a local king, maintains that his mother was from the house Jinsajian, explained by Henning as the Armenian Arsacid family of Kamsarakan (Henning, 1943, p. 52, n. 4 1977, II, p. 115). Is that fact, or fiction, or both? The historicity of this tradition is assumed by most, but the possibility that Mani's noble Arsacid background is legendary cannot be ruled out (cf. Scheftelowitz, 1933, pp. 403–4). In any case, it is characteristic that Mani took pride in his origin from time-honored Babel, but never claimed affiliation to the Iranian upper class." – "Manichaeism" at Encyclopædia Iranica
Sundermann, Werner (20 July 2009). "MANI". Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
"The Traité is, despite its title (Moni jiao cao jing, lit. "fragmentary [Mathews, no. 6689] Manichean scripture"), a long text in an excellent state of preservation, with only a few lines missing at the beginning. It was first fully published with a facsimile by Edouard Chavannes (q.v.) and Paul Pelliot in 1911 and is frequently known as Traité Pelliot. Their transcription (including typographical errors) was reproduced in the Chinese translation of the Buddhist Tripiṭaka (Taishō, no. 2141 B, LIV, pp. 1281a16-1286a29); that text was in turn reproduced with critical notes by Helwig Schmidt-Glintzer (1987b, pp. T. 81–86). A more accurate transcription was published by Chen Yuan in 1923 (pp. 531–44), and a new collation based on a reexamination of the original photographs of the manuscript has now been published by Lin Wu-shu (1987, pp. 217–29), with the photographs", "Chinese Turkestan vii. Manicheism in Chinese Turkestan and China" at Encyclopædia Iranica
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Scott, David (2007). "Manichaeism in Bactria: Political Patterns & East-West Paradigms". Journal of Asian History. 41 (2): 107–130. ISSN0021-910X. JSTOR41933456.
"Manichaean – definition of Manichaean in English". Manichaean. The Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
Sundermann, Werner (20 July 2009). "MANI". Encyclopædia Iranica. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 October 2023. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
de Beausobre, Isaac (1734). Histoire critique de Manichée et du manichéisme [Critical history of Manichae and Manichaeism] (in French). Vol. 1. Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
Beausobre, Isaac de; Formey, S. (1739). Histoire critique de Manichée et du manichéisme [Critical history of Manichae and Manichaeism] (in French). Vol. 2. Amsterdam: J. Frederic Bernard. Archived from the original on 6 December 2018. Retrieved 6 December 2018.
"Manichaean – definition of Manichaean in English". Manichaean. The Oxford Dictionaries. Archived from the original on 25 September 2011. Retrieved 31 July 2011.
Hopkins, Keith (July 2001). A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity. New York: Plume. pp. 246, 263, 270. ISBN0-452-28261-6. OCLC47286228.
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Scott, David (2007). "Manichaeism in Bactria: Political Patterns & East-West Paradigms". Journal of Asian History. 41 (2): 107–130. ISSN0021-910X. JSTOR41933456.
Hopkins, Keith (July 2001). A World Full of Gods: The Strange Triumph of Christianity. New York: Plume. p. 245. ISBN0-452-28261-6. OCLC47286228.
