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hunter

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3. Built as a Manichaean monastery

Reply to Judi Lynn (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2020, 09:51 AM

Jun 2020

The leader of the people who built it was was killed in an anti-Manichaean rebellion in 779.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaeism

This religion was extinguished by Christian, Islamic, and Buddhist political leaders, who killed Manichaean clerics and followers by burning them alive, etc.

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