Manichaeism

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Manichaeism was a religious movement founded in the third century CE.

Manichaeism was named after its founder, Mani (c.217–277), a Persian religious teacher who took the Zoroastrianism in which he had been brought up and combined it with Christian and Buddhist beliefs.