Jjinandtonic: Oh yeah the Taiping are substantially worse and less interesting than the Manichean sects

Did you ever hear of the Manichean Painting of the Buddha Jesus? I thought not. It’s not a story the Vatican would tell you. It’s a Chinese legend.

One of the greatest lost opportunities of globalization is that we’ll never get to see what wild and wonky syncretic versions of Christianity might have emerged from isolated Christian sects in Korea/Philippines/China etc

And by a Chinese legend I mean its an icon of Jesus painted by a Manichean sect in southern China, that was then brought to Japan and used as a Christian icon by Arima Harunobu, and now it’s in a Buddhist temple and venerated as an image of Ākāśagarbha

Yo this is so cool! Thats the stuff im looking for

The less cool version of syncretism due to the amount of bloodshed involved is the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom.

Oh yeah the Taiping are substantially worse and less interesting than the Manichean sects

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