最终,在多种因素的作用下,牟羽可汗选择了摩尼教作为汗国的国教。
因为摩尼教的态度是朝向物质世界,它把邪恶看成是一种物质身体,而不是道德上的实体。
奥古斯丁挑战摩尼教,否认摩尼的使徒身份,谴责他拒绝圣经的真理。
另外,粟特人有意识的传播摩尼教,加快了摩尼教在回纥汗国的传播和影响。
经过70余年的发展,摩尼教在中国的势力达到顶峰,仅次于佛教。
第一部分对回纥汗国在信奉摩尼教之前的社会信仰进行了简单论述。
此后,传入中国的摩尼教与中亚地区的摩尼教团失去了联系。
1·Among them were sects that had long withered in the West - such as Manichaeism, considered heretical by Christendom.
甚至很多在西方已经销声匿迹的教派都在这里复兴,比如被基督教国家认作异教的摩尼教。
2·The Teaching of Manichaeism and Other narratives.
摩尼教及其它故事的讲述。
3·Do you know Manichaeism?
你知道摩尼教吗?
4·The essence of Manichaeism was the principle of absolute Dualism: the primal conflict between God, represented by light and spirit, and Satan, represented by darkness and the material world.
摩尼教的本质是绝对的二元论法则:神和撒旦最初的斗争,表现为光明与精神世界和黑暗与物质世界。
5·The main features of Manichaeism were enunciated in an elaborate cosmogonical myth of two absolute and eternal principles which manifest themselves in three eras or "moments."
摩尼教的主要特征在一本精心制作的天体演化神话中有所阐述,两种绝对和没完没了的法则出现于三个纪元或者“片刻”上。