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Article: Pour une histoire de la Serinde: Le manicheisme parmi les peuples et religions d'Asie Centrale d 'apres les sources primaires.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2003
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By XAVIER TREMBLAY. Veroffentlichungen der Kommission fur Iranistik, no. 28. Vienna: OSTERREICHENISCHEN AKADEMIE DER WlSSENSCHAFFEN, 2001. Pp. 337. E 70.20 (paper).
This book contains an enormous amount of information. The author's starting point is a good one: Turfan is well known as the find-spot for the world's largest repository of Manichean materials, but just how Manichean was it?
A single table illustrates the strengths of the book. Appendix C (p. 138) lists the languages and religions of Serindia (following Aurel Stein, the term indicates Chinese Central Asia) from the second century B.C. to the twelfth century A.D. On the left-hand side are ...
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