Editing Manichaeism (section)

====Tibet====
Manichaeism spread to Tibet during the [[Tibetan Empire]]. There was a serious attempt made to introduce the religion to the Tibetans as the text ''Criteria of the Authentic Scriptures'' (a text attributed to the Tibetan Emperor [[Trisong Detsen]]) makes a great effort to attack Manichaeism by stating that Mani was a heretic who engaged in [[religious syncretism]] into a deviating and inauthentic form.<ref>{{cite book|title=Sources of Tibetan Tradition |last1=Schaeffer |first1=Kurtis |last2=Kapstein |first2=Matthew |last3=Tuttle |first3=Gray |publisher=[[Columbia University Press]] |year=2013 |isbn=978-0-231-13599-3 |location=New York |pages=95, 96}}</ref>