Shabuhragan
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The Shabuhragan (
The
Original Middle Persian fragments were discovered at Turpan, and quotations were brought in Arabic by al-Biruni:[4]
The surviving fragments of the Shabuhragan focus on eschatology. When the end of the world comes, the God of the wise world, Jesus, comes and performs the final judgment, separating the sinners from the righteous. The angels go and seize the sinners and cast them into hell. The dead will rise, the righteous will ascend to heaven, and all other beings will fall into hell with them. The gods who support the world depart and the world collapses, and the fire of judgment enters from outside the universe and burns up the world, which will last for 1468 years. Evildoers suffer in this fire, but the righteous are unharmed. The evildoers ask for forgiveness, but will only be condemned. Finally, the sinners will be thrown into eternal prison along with the devil.
According to the Chronicle of the Buddha, in the first year of Yanzai of the Tang dynasty, the Persian Fudodan introduced the Erzong jing into China.[5]
References
- ^ Reck, Christiane (2000). "Šābuhragān". In Yarshater, Ehsan (ed.). Encyclopædia Iranica, Online Edition. Encyclopædia Iranica Foundation.
- ^ a b c Chronology of Ancient Nations; ed. and trans. by A. Brinkmann; Leipzig, 1895
- OCLC 1131547151.
- JSTOR 40096960.
- ^ "In the first year of the reign of Yanzai ...... a native of the Persian state of Fudodan (original note: a native of the Western Sea state of Daqin) came to the dynasty with the false teachings of the Two Sutras." (The Unified Chronicle of the Buddha - Volume 39)
Sources
- Manicheism English translations of portions of the Shabuhragan can be found here.
- Middle Persian Sources: D. N. MacKenzie, “Mani’s Šābuhragān,” pt. 1 (text and translation), BSOAS 42/3, 1979, pp. 500–34,[1], copy at the Internet Archive. pt. 2 (glossary and plates), BSOAS 43/2, 1980, pp. 288–310 [2], copy at the Internet Archive.
