Manichaeism

a religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000

3世紀にマニによって創始された宗教；光と闇のゾロアスター教的二元論、バビロニアの民話、仏教の倫理、キリスト教の表層的要素の統合；ローマ帝国で広く普及したが、1000年までにほぼ消滅した