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Noun: Manichaeanism
  1. A religion founded by Manes in the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000
    - Manichaeism

Type of: belief, faith, religion, religious belief

Encyclopedia: Manichaeanism