The Manichaean Chinese Hymn Scroll from Dunhuang
- Date of account
- Tang period manuscripts; modern cataloguing and studies 2010 onward
- Location
- Dunhuang and Turfan manuscript collections
- Source
- model_recalled_reference
- Record updated
- 2026-10-10
Record summary
Chinese Manichaean manuscripts from Dunhuang and Turfan preserve hymns, cosmological explanations and ritual language transmitted across Central Asia into China. They offer a useful comparison with Buddhist and Christian translation practices because Manichaean communities reused Chinese literary and liturgical forms while retaining distinctive cosmology. The corpus is fragmentary, dispersed among collections and sometimes reconstructed from damaged folios. Researchers should distinguish securely identified Manichaean texts from cataloguing proposals based on vocabulary, iconography or parallel passages.
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