| Since october 2008,a large number of Manichaeism documents have been found around tens of thousands of villages in Baiyang Township,Xiapu county,Fujian province,including the classic "mo ni guang fo" and a variety of science books,such as "le shan tang shen ji","xing fu zu qing dan ke","ming men chu zhuan qing ben shi ","zhou shen die shu ke ce","dian deng qi ceng ke ce" and so on.The newly discovered Manichaeism documents in Xiapu are not only rich in content,but also very important.Compared with the Manichaeism documents found in Dunhuang,Turpan and other places,the newly discovered Manichaeism documents in Xiapu are first-hand materials for studying the history of Manichaeism in China after Song and Yuan dynasties,which have particularly important literature value and academic value.Among these documents,the content of Mo Ni Guang Fo is the most important.The coexistent 83 pages,659 lines of text,and the actual word count is more than 8,300 words,but there are many abbreviations in the text,if it is completed,it should be about 9000 words.The cover is badly worn,the existing book title "Chen pei survival repair mo ni guang fo ",should be written for later,not the original book inscriptions.There are "zan tian wang","si ji zan " and other subtitles,should be the inheritance of Lin stare.Many studies have been written on this literature.At the beginning of 2016,he obtained a copy of zhenming kaizheng wenke arts in jianglong village,Pingnan County,Fujian Province.The contents of the document mainly include rhymes,essays and sutras chanting.According to the content,it can be identified as the ritual documents used by local mages in religious rituals.Its content is close to that of Mani Light Buddha,which belongs to Xiapu Manichaeism system,and is studied by comparing it with Mo Ni Guang Fo.On this analysis of the "zhen Ming open are liberal arts" of religious attributes and depends on the composition of Buddhism and Taoism,and the writing of s roughly date,from its history and literature content itself,it shall be the typical Manichaeism instrument book,in-depth study on it can be found on the borrow and folk belief mix of Taoist thought,reflect Manichaeism was introduced into China since tang dynasty,the southeast coastal areas to the initiative to meet the demand of Chinese people’s beliefs,Taoism and folk belief factors actively into section in the book.At the same time,it also shows us the development track of Manichaeism which entered Fujian after Tang dynasty and went through Song,Yuan,Ming and Qing Dynasties. |
