The manual also can help us to understand the painting. When we bring artistic and literary artefacts into dialogue with one another, we gradually realize that both pictorial and written forms of evidence-especially the Diagram of the Universe-can be apprehended as texts. So, we decided that the main ritual object of our research should be the manuscript Mani the Buddha of Light and the Diagram of the Universe is some kind of “illustration” to help us to understand the manuscript. But almost no texts mention the lower half of the painting. Many texts in Mani the Buddha of Light can be compared with the upper half of the Diagram of the Universe. Then we realized that we do not have enough evidence. First, we considered that the painting Diagram of the Universe in a private collection in Japan is perhaps the important ritual object of the Religion of Light. Mani the Buddha of Light, a manuscript from Xiapu County, Fujian Province, China, is undoubtedly the most important collection of ritual manuals of the Religion of Light (i.e., Manichaeism in China).
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