Recent discoveries of Manichaean texts have increased our knowledge of the teaching of Manichaeism and of its geographical spread in pre-Islamic times. This volume amalgamates scholarly studies on Manichaeism, and includes many Chinese texts in their original scripts and in translation.
Samuel N. C. Lieu is Professor of Ancient History and Co-Director of the Ancient History Documentary Research Centre at Macquarie University, Sydney (Australia). He is also Associate Editor of the UNESCO-sponsored Corpus Fontium Manichaeorum project. The second volume of his collected essays, Manichaeism in Central Asia and China (Brill, 1998).