Asian Art

Episodes from Mani's Missionary Work

Episodes from Mani's Missionary Work is a Manichean silk color painting drawn in the coastal area of southern China during the Yuan to Ming period. It is now in a private Japanese collection. The whole picture can be roughly divided into five scenes, depicting the missionary process of a Manichean elector. According to Hungarian Asian religious art historian Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, this priest is probably the founder of Manichaeism Mani himself. This painting was originally part of a large-scale Manichean silk painting. The drawing technique and artistic style are similar to Mani's Community Established, Mani's Parents, The Birth of Mani and Manichaean Diagram of the Universe. In Japanese it is called Legend of the Saint 1 (圣者伝図1) with Mani's Community Established being called Legend of the Saint 2 (圣者伝図2)

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• ▸Chinese ritual music
• ▸Amphicarpaea
• ▸Asakusa

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