Inculturation of Manichean in Chinese Society

Abstract

This article is devoted to historical-philosophical aspects of studying a spiritually multifaceted phenomenon of Manicheanism, especially in its Chinese interpretation. Having emerged in the Middle East as a syncretic philosophical-religious teaching, Manicheaenism penetrated into the territory of China by the VII century A.D. and, having absorbed and processed main autochthon directions of religious-philosophical thought (Buddhism, Daoism), managed to adjust successfully in the foreign culture and exist up to the XVI century.