History

Yardna dHiya

The Living Stream of Naziruthian Gnosis Gnostic Chronology of the Order of Nazorean Essenes Timeline Compiled by Abba Yesai Nasrai, O:N:E:

c443,367 BCE  Mandaean date for Adam  & Eve, and the The Creation Of Man, 448,000 being the total time allotted to humanity.

c227,367 BCE  Mandaean date for Ram and Rud. From the creation of Adam and Eve to the destruction of the race by 'sword and plague' was a period of 216,000 years. One pair, named Ram and Rud (Sky and River), survived disaster.

c144,000 BCE Geneticists believe that an ancestral human population of about 2000 individuals who lived somewhere in Africa began to split up. According to Gnosticism, these arose from evolution influenced by dark deities. Studies based on both mitochondrial and Y chromosome  Genetic trees suggest 33 family trees will eventually develop by 2000 A.D., amongst them being those who are capable of hearing "The Call of Life."

c80,000 BCE    Studies based on  mitochondria suggest that a small group of a couple hundred descendants of an "Eve" migrated eastward out of Africa and became the ancestors of all non African humans, including the future Heralds of that Good Realm  like Yeshu, Miryai and Mani.

c71,367 BCE  After 156,000 years a second disaster resulted in the perishing of the human family through fire. A second pair survived, Shurbai and Sharhabi'il (the word shurbai seems to mean a spreading out, or propagation-root shrb, 'to spread out'). Nuh (Noah) & Anhuraita or Nuraitha would be the next couple.

c11,340 BC Cayce tells of the creation of 5 Adam-Eves, one in the Mt. Ararat region.

c10,500 BCE   Cayce tells of an exodus from Ararat to Egypt at this time, and of a prophet named Ra-Ta..

c3500 BCE   Earliest known examples of writing which will evolve into a tool of Gnostics later on.

c3200 BCE    Upper and Lower Egypt united by Menes, 1st. Pharaoh, preparing the ground for the ascension of the Amun Priesthood later on.

c2697 BCE    Huang Ti (The Yellow Emperor), associated with alchemic and longlevity texts that will commingle with later Manichaeans in China.

2300 BCE   Astarte, one of the ancient forms of the Nazirutha goddess Simat Hiya (Miryai), was worshipped by the Iranians in her form as Anahita. Her image was found in Sumeria around 2300 BC. In the Tibetan pantheon she is a manifestation of the sky goddess Kaladugmo or Ma Namkha ( 'Mother Sky'). In the true Bon she is Sherab Chamma, the Heavenly Mother of Wisdom. The Prajnaparamita texts are about Her.

2084 BCE    "The signs of the Zodiac were fixed in the year 2084 BC by Babylonian astrologers"

c2000 BCE    Ammuru or Amorites, which means "Westerners," move from the Sinai desert and invade Mesopotamia, Syria and Old Kingdom Egypt. They are considered to be proto-Arameans. Their main political center is Mari in northeastern Syria.

c1857 BCE    One legendary date for the Birth of Bon's Shenrab in the 1st Wood Male Mouse Year, the son of King Gyal Tokar and Queen Zanga Ringum.  Shenrab was the true Buddha, not Sidhartha.

1800 BCE    Beginning of Shang Dynasty in China. Earliest Chinese written records, inscribed on oracle bones and bronze vessels. Shang culture influenced the Manichaean like center of Zhang-Zhung and later Tibetan Marriage Practices.

c1700 BCE    Rigveda. Ancient Indian hymns. Composed prior to the Indo-European migration into Persia and India. 17th and 15th centuries Asherah was the mother goddess and the consort of Jehovah.

c1500 BCE   About 3500 years ago Mandaeans migrated from Egypt to Palestine, according to modern Iranian Mandaean legends.  date uncertain

c1450 BCE    Aryan language speaking people conquer India, paving the way for later Tantra teachings.  date uncertain

c1450 BCE    The Egyptian Priest of Heliopolis, Osarsiph, changes his name to Moses and organizes the Hebrew rebellion and religion. "[The Hyksos king] Apophis took to him Sutekh [Red Donkey God Seth] for lord and served not any god that was in the whole land save only Sutekh [Seth]."     - Papyrus Sallier, I, I, 2-3

1400 BCE    The roots of Mithraic belief are found in the worship of the Sky Goddess Mitra in northern Mesopotamia.

c1400 BCE    Avesta of Zarathustrians (Zardoz (Zarathustra))composed in Avestan (an East-Iranian Language). date uncertain

c1,360 BCE    Akhenaton's monotheistic sun worship in Egypt. He becomes the likely prototype for the legends of Moses found in the false corrupt Bible of Ezra rejected by the Nazoreans.

c1250 BCE    Supposed date that Moses receives the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai. A rejected scenario by ancient Nazorean Gnostics.

c1200     Possible date of the semi-legendary Rishabha (Shiva) , the first “ford-maker” (or enlightened teacher) of what came to be Bonposim, Jainism, and Shaivitism.

c1,150 BCE    "The Yi-Ching, or I-Ching, appeared in its present form with 64 hexagrams during the reign of King Wen of China.

c1063 BCE     500 years prior to the so called Buddha Sakyamuni coming to the world,  Lord Shenrab Miwo had reformed the more primitive Bon shammanism and introduced yungdrung or eternal Bon principles. His son and disciple Mucho Demdrug continued this teaching and trained six translators who took SHenrab's message into China, Tibet, India and elsewhere.

c1000 BCE    Aryans migrate into Ganges Valley.  date uncertain

c900 BCE    Walled Cities with central castles existed in Bactria (Merv, Maracandra, Balkh), the birthplace of Zardost,  Rumi and other Gnostic prophets.

875 BCE    Aproximate date that Liliukh (Gnostic Elijah) & Lulaitha create their Mt Carmel and Betharbara monastic foundations which will eventually evolve into the Nazorean Sect and Beni-Amin Temple Order. (if Biblical chronology is correct.) Liliukh may have been an Aramaic speaking Assyrian since he is called the Tishbite which can mean stranger or alien. Gnostics of Carmel later would refer to themselves as "strangers" in a strange land.

872 BCE    Birth of Parsvanatha, the 23 Jain Buddha. He is supposed to have attained liberation about 246 years before Mahavira at Sammetasikhara which is known by his name Parsvanatha hill. He traced his lineage back to Kailash and the first of the 24.

836 BCE    First historical account of Medes (Madai) in Hamadan.

800 BCE    Twenty-eight "moon stations" in monthly lunar cycle recognized in Babylonia, India and China. Chaldeans recorded the movements of the sky. Beginnings of western astrology (28 Chinese Lunar Palaces)

772 BCE    Death of Parsvanatha, the 23 Jain Buddha.

753 BCE    Legendary founding of Rome by Romulus. This state will eventually overrun Nazoreanism in the west.

700 BCE    Jordanian city of Petra is carved out of sandstone by unknown Aramaic culture which would later be associated by some with the Nazoreans.

c630 BCE    Possible birth of Zarathustra, 630-553 B.C.E., a true Messenger of Light.  date uncertain

c599 BCE    The Jain Mahavira, born in circa 599 BC near Patna in Bihar

570 BCE    Lao-tzu (Taoist Philosopher). Teaches the Essene Life Stream Way under the name of Tao or Dao. Previous incarnation of Buddha and Mani according to Tun-huang texts. (Tao-Te-Ching) and a possible overlap with Shenrab Miwo according to some Tibetan scholars.  date uncertain

 586 BCE    Judah, Jerusalem Temple fall to Babylonia. Jews and some of their scrolls and  other Temple artifacts are exiled to Babylon, Temple destroyed  (Set the stage for false additions to scripture and tradition). Nazoreans on Carmelare not exiled.

c582 BCE    Possible birth of Pythagoras, 582-507 B.C.E., a true Apostle of Light and instigator of vegetarian Vegan monasteries. (Some give 570 BCE as possible date.) He was taught by Essens from Carmel and Zarathustrians from Babylon.

563 BCE      Siddhârtha Gautama, of the Sakya clan of what is now Nepal, founder of a form of Buddhism, claimed enlightenment in his thirty-fifth year. He is known to have studied with two Jain teachers, Alâra Kamala and Udraka Râmaputra, who probably taught him a form of Yoga. He taught watered down Jainism, which itself is watered down Bonism. Mahayana and Vajrayana teachings are now attributed to him erroneously.

c558   BCE    One early date for the restoration of worship in the butcher shop temple of Judea and the authority of Ezra.

562-561 BCE    Primary History of Judaism (Genesis-2 Kings) probably composed  by one author and  free of any later redactions. Author said to be TVS in Mandaic scrolls.

551-479 BCE    Confucius in China.

539-530 BCE    Cyrus of Persia who sponsored (and created) Judaism.

530 BCE    The Saka peoples appear North East of Iran as mounted nomads in 530 BC. Cyrus failed to subdue (and was killed) the Massagetae beyond the Oxus in 530 BC." The Kalachakra initiation is never performed in the Northeast Sector of a community.

c527 BCE    Mahavira died at Pawapuri (Bihar) at the age of 72 in 527 BC.

521 BCE    Sidhartha Buddha, teaching watered down Jainism about 6 years after Mahavira's death,  goes to the city Benares, India, first sermon in deer park.

c516 BCE    Ezra, from Babylon, offers a False Torah (Mosaic Law) to Jerusalem [Neh8].4th Ezra speaks of him "receiving" the 24 public and 70 secret books alluding to the possibility that Ezra is responsible for all non Essene additions (pericopes) to the old Testament.

515 BCE    Second Jerusalem Temple construction completed during Darius I reign in opposition to the true Essene Temple on Mt. Carmel. Then they appointed the priests to their divisions and the Levites in their orders.

500 BCE    Sun-Tse's Treatise on  The Art of War, first intelligence manual.

c497 BCE    Possible death fate of Pythagoras, b.570, inventor of Greek mathematics, musical octave, vegetarian, wearer of white, advocator of  cenobitic monastic living. Received training from Essene masters on Mt. Carmel and established the Bios Pythgorikas - the Pythagorean Lifestyle, a form of the Essene lifestyle.

482 BCE    Death of Gautama Buddha, Siddhartha, b.c563, Indian philosopher.

c450 BCE    Possible late date for Torah (Ezra-Mosaic-Tavis Law) compiled from E/J/P/D sources in Babylon. Final crystallization of the False Torah (Bible)which includes animal sacrifice that was rejected by Nazoreans.

c427 BCE    Possible birth of Plato, 427-347 B.C.E., tenth generation Pythagorean. Plato and Hermes were considered  prophets by the Manichaeans,a ccording to Ephraim of Syria.

c400 BCE    Buddhism comes to Nepal, according to some. Bon sources date it earlier.

399–295 BCE    Chuang-tzu (Taoist Littérateur)

390 BCE    Approximate date Plato's The Republic written, featuring such Illuminoid images as the Philosopher Kings, the Divided Line and the parable of the Cave.

c383 BCE    At Vesali the Second Buddhist Council is held declaring a minority orthodox ( Hinayana) and the majority heretic (Mahayana).

350 BCE    Greek Historian Timaeus makes earliest known reference to Druids in France.

331 BCE    Alexander declared son of God at oracle of Amun in Siwa, Egypt. Slightly significant to Essenes because of their connection to Amun, or Aumen (Essenes on Carmel are called the children of Aumen, or Beni-Amin in Mandaen writings.)

307 BCE    Museum and Library of Alexandria begun under Ptolemy Soter. A valuable archive to Egyptian Gnostics until their Christian rivals burned it to the ground.

264-272 BCE   Asoka's reign and Covenant of the Tenth Pillar mentioned in Nag. Sent Buddhist missionaries to Israel, Egypt and elsewhere, possibly influencing Nazorean brother-sisterhoods. Asoka's Pillar edicts.

c250 BCE    Synagogues, places to study false bloody Torah (Mosaic Law), appear in contrast to the appearance of truer studies under the auspices of King Asoka via the Buddhist canon (Tipitaka) being completed during the Third Buddhist Council at Patna. This canon was corrupt according to Mani, yet still valuable. Asoka, the emperor of India sends Buddhist missionaries as far as Marseilles (Roquepertuse)

c240 BCE    Buddhism was introduced into Ladák about the year 240 B.C., but its final domestication in the country, seems not to have been anterior to the first century before the Christian era.  Bon sources date it earlier.

217 BCE    Indian missionary is said to have preached in China, but the Emperor sent him away, and Buddhism in China did not become fully established till the year 65 A.D., when it was received with universal pleasure.[

c175-68 BCE    Two monastic Rules, or documents, are written. The Serak Yahad, the Manual of Discipline and the Damascus Document are recorded or borrowed by followers of the Teacher of Righteousness. These will later be found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. These echo more true Nazorean Rules(Beni-Amin Rule).

c167 BCE    With the "abomination of desolation" by Antiochus Epiphanes on December 8, 167 BCE, (1 Macc. 1:60; Ant. XII 5:4) the priestly service of the divisions again ceased.  Seen as a good event by Gnostics.

c164 BCE    Vegetarian Judas Maccabee recaptured the Temple three years later, and on Kislev 25, or December 14, 164 BCE, the false bloody altar had been rebuilt and purified.  Seen as a bad event by Gnostics.

150 BCE    The Buddhist Canon is said by some to have been further reduced to writing. A mixture of true northern school teachings with false southern school teachings.

127 BCE    First of the nine Kings of Tibet (Nyatri Tsenpo).  Bon sources mention 18 earlier kings.

c100 BCE    Rise of Mahayana Buddhism which has an affinity for Gnosticism. Based on earlier Bon teachings fermenting in the himalayas.

c66 BCE   Early (probably wrong) Mandaean date for John the Baptist born to a Jewish Father and Nazorean Mother. Is taken to be raised by Nazoreans when 3 years old to Betharbara. Returns when 22. The date of birth in 1 B.C. , as promoted by the Bible, is more traditional. John preached, according to a passage in the Ginza,  for 42 years . (Mandaean account conflicts with NT, Cayce & Suddi Material)

c44 BCE    John the Baptist begins preaching for 42 years, according to Mandaean legends. This is probably incorrect. (Mandaean account conflicts with NT, Cayce & Suddi Material)

32 BCE    The entire scriptural canon of the Theravada School was committed to writing on palm leaves in Pali at the Aloka Cave, near Matale, Sri Lanka (35-32 B.C.E.)  Mostly compiled from false southern school teachings.

20 BCE    Herod begins to rebuild the Great Bloody Temple in Jerusalem in an attempt to restore it to its former "splendor" as under the legendary Solomon. Seen as a bad omen to Nazoreans.

2 BCE    Probable date for birth of Yeshu the Nazorean, or Jesus, to Mariam (Virgin Mary) and Yoseph the Nazarites of Mount Carmel, probably in a Nazorean Monastery, perhaps on January 6, just after midnight.

1 BCE January 10th - "blood red" full lunar eclipse just  before Herod's death.

1 AD/C.E. First year in Christian calendar. This 1 A.D. date calculation for Jesus' birth by Dennis the Dwarf is most  wrong. Yeshu had to be born at least 2 B.C. to be born during Herod the Great's reign.

2 AD/C.E.   Yeshu (Jesus) Baptism by Yohanna (John the Baptist) when 3 years old and is recognized as an incarnation of Manda dHiya.  Yeshu (Jesus) begins to function as a Shganda (Deacon) in the Temple.

c8 AD   James the Just born to Mariam & Yoseph, according to Cayce accounts of a 10 year lapse after Yeshua.

c9 AD   Judas or Salome born to Marriame & Yoseph, according to Cayce accounts of a 11-12 year lapse after Yeshua.

c10-12   Mandaean legends say that John the Baptist baptized Yeshu again about this time (age 12 to 14).  Yeshu would have entered the Priesthood at this time as a Tarmidayya with uncut hair, vegan diet, and white Rasta clothes. Yeshu said to have taught in the Temple. The tradition that this was the Jewish Temple at Yerushalom is most certainly wrong, more probably the Nazorean Temple at Betharbara  instead.

c29 (January 6) Yeshu (Jesus) maswetted / Baptism in the side streams of the Jordan near Bethany (Betharbara) , being about 30 years of age. (January 6th is the traditional, pre 4th century date for both birth and baptism, and the Cayce date and Orthodox date for Yeshu's immersion) Circa January 6th to February 16th - Yeshu spends 40 days fasting in the "wilderness" according to Biblically preserved legends (This may have been later to coincide with the Shawui Lentide season).

c29   John the Baptist, Yohanna dMasbutta nears the end of his 7 year preaching mission. (Begins ministry at this time according to dubious Luke, but more like 22 AD. according to more reliable Mandaean records which seem to multiply his ministery time by 6) John is centered on Mt. Parawan (Bethany beyond Jordan) but connected to Mt Carmel.  Buddhism introduced to China, paving the way for Manichaeanism later.

c29 (February 17th)    Yeshu (Jesus') ministry begins. At the death of Yohanna (John the Baptist), Yeshu assumes leadership of Nazorean sect. Dosithius, the disciple of John the Baptist, starts his own school instead of embracing Yeshu as the successor to John. (Dorithius is the same school from which Simon Magus was connected and which would eventually become the Mandaeans.).

c20-29    Miryai converts from Judaism to Nazirutha.  Pontius Pilate is governor of Judea (from 26-36) who presides over the death of Yeshu, which to Gnostics is not salvatory.

c29- 30    Miryai's marriage to Yeshu and becomes his main disciple. She will eventually become the first buddha in his lineage.

30    Yeshu dies on Wed, 3 April 0030 = 14th of Nisan, 3790. Peter tells us in the Clementine literature that Jesus only taught for one year. This is echoed by other early tradition. The idea that Jesus taught for 3 years is a late idea derived from assumptions derived from teh faulty New Testament legends. His brother James the Righteous and Miryai  take over leadership of the Nazorean sect.

30 (Nisan 17th) Mud Skandola seals on Yeshu's grave, in Talpiot, were erased and a Laufa Mass done. Yeshu appears to Miryai and begins his spiritual ascent upward, leaving his physical corpse behind. (see: The Spiritual Ascension of Yeshu According To Gnostic Sources)

c31    Yeshu's bones transferred to Ossuary on one year anniversary of his death, 14th of Nisan, 3791.

c32   June 26th: Yeshu the Nazarite (Jesus) confers Enshroudment (Priesthood) on Apostles at Pentecost in the 339th (Greek) year, according to the "Teachings of the Apostles". (May be a false legend of the Paulien school)

44   Traditional date for James, brother of John, executed by Herod Agrippa I [Acts 12, 1-3].

c48     One late date for Paul's Conversion. Early church council in Jerusalem decides to expand missionary work to the Gentiles. Christianized Jews are excused from full obedience to Jewish law.

49   Emperor Claudius orders all Jewish Christians to be expelled from Rome.

c53    Miryai, Miriamene e Mara (Master Miriam), or Mary Magdalene, dies after being a legitimate sucessor of Yeshu and one of the recognized leaders of the Nazorean Sect. Her bones are interred next to Yeshu's in Talpiot under the name Miriamene e Mara (Master Miriam). ("These are the heads of very numerous discourses which (the Naassene) asserts James the brother of the Lord handed down to Mariamne” - The Refutations of all Heresies by Hippolytus (Book V section II)

58   Emperor Ming-Ti of China introduces Buddhism into his country.

c61    Mahayana Buddhism spreads to China. Human sacrifices as part of religious celebrations are prohibited by Roman law.

62   James, the successor to Yeshu, is killed. "Being therefore this kind of person [i.e., a heartless Sadducee], Ananus,  thinking that he had a favorable opportunity because Festus had died and  Albinus was still on his way, called a sanhedrin of   judges and brought into it the brother of Yeshu (Jesus)-who-is-called-Messiah, James by name, and some others. He made the accusation that they had transgressed  the law, and he handed them over to be stoned."

64   Roman emperor Nero (37 - 68) accuses the Christians of having started the fire which destroyed large sections of Rome, thus initiating widespread persecution.

66   Nazoreans go to Cocaba and Pella in Jordan with many other pacifist Nazoreans who were forced to leave Betharbara and Carmel for more peaceful lands.  Jews revolt against Roman government (66-70). Eusebius, says that the Nazarenes, like the Pharisee followers of Hillel, refused to join the rebels in the uprisings of 66 AD and 132 AD.

c66-95    In Ecclesiastical History Eusebius relates that the Nazarenes fled across the Jordan to Pella, a gentile city, at the start of the revolt in 66 AD. This major disturbance to the organizational aspect of Nazoreans may have contributed to Roman Christians becoming more independent. The first drafts of the Roman Gospels are written based on hearsay and misinformation, probably by Hellenistic groups unwilling to acknowledge Miryai, or Mary Magdalene, as the legitimate sucessor to James. (According to Islam, over 80 of these would be written before the final four were settled on) New (dubious)  lines from Peter and Paul (Gentile Pauline church) begin to be claimed. These would eventually evolve into the Catholic church in Rome.

68  Dead Sea Scrolls hid by Zealots, not Essenes, near abandoned Qumran as Rome advances. Qumran  destroyed by Rome, site of Dead Sea Scrolls found in 1949. (Nearby Nazorean Betharbara was abandoned before hand.)

c68  General exodus of the Nazorean break off group that followed Dosithius instead of Yeshu after John's death. They migrating northeastward to Media to eventually become the Mandaeans via Zazai. (This is the same school from which Simon Magus was connected as Dorithius' sucessor.)

70  General Titus, Vespasian's eldest son, conquers Jerusalem, destroys Herodian Temple and partially levels abandoned Nazorean Essene Sanctuary on Mt. Zion in the Essene Quarter. Mark, earliest known gospel, is composed according to orthodox tradition. Mark is suspect as an unauthentic account fabricated by those with no first hand knowledge of the things they were writing about.

c73  Masada, last remaining stronghold of Jewish Zealots, falls to Roman assault. Some Nazarenes supposedly return to Jerusalem under the leadership of  Shimeon, Yeshu's brother, or cousin, (or both if his father had two wives). They reportedly rebuild the Essene Sanctuary later known as the Church of the Apostles and the Cenacle. Successors to this Bishopric last here till 135.  Miryai was the legitimate sucessor to James as head of Nazoreans and probably did not return to Jerusalem/Betharbara area with Shimeon who apparently took over James roll as Bishop only.

c74   Mara Bar-Serapion, writing later than 73 CE to his son, says, "What advantage did the Jews gain from executing their wise king?... He lived on in the teaching which he had given."

c77  Gospel of John sections compiled some 50 years after the crucifixion by someone other than the disciple John, according to Cayce. It quotes the Torah and avoids traditional Nazorean quotes and thus is suspect as an imperfect forgery.

c90   Old Testament books, called "The Writings," are established as part of Roman Christian canon: Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Song of Songs, Ruth, Lamentations, Ecclesiastes, Esther, Daniel, Ezra, and Chronicles. This would not be done by true Nazorean Gnostics in the lineage of Life who rejected the Psalms in favor of the Qulasta and Odes.

c100   The Roman historian Tacitus, around A.D.100, reported that Vespasian, while leading the war against the Jews some forty years previous, had offered sacrifices on Elijah's open-air Altar at Carmel and there upon received an oracle indicating that he would become the next Roman emperor, which was fulfilled.

c100   Matthew  written 33 to 34 years after Mark, according to Cayce. It quotes the Torah and avoids traditional Nazorean quotes and thus is suspect as an imperfect forgery.

c100    Cerinthus  claimed Jesus was mortal man on whom a separate Christ descended. Around 100 AD, according to Epiphanius in his Panarion, there lived an Ossaean prophet, by the name of Elxai, who was married, and was accepted by both the Ossaeans and the Nasaraeans. He “introduced” the “oaths” to the substances of salt, water,earth, bread, heaven, aether, and wind; with seven “witnesses”: sky, water, holy spirits, angels of prayer, the olive, salt, and earth. Thus, Elxai, by being married, differed from what Ossaeans were in Josephus’ time, celibate; and could have indicated a change in the position on marriage by the Ossaeans at this time.  The four sects who embraced Elxai and his “doctrine of Christ, vegetarianism, encouraging marriage”, and the rejection of the “..false Law of Moses” were: the Ossaeans, the Nasaraeans, who were either his contemporaries or came before him; and the Ebionites and the Nazoraeans who came after him.

c101   Elchasai, or Elxai, came forward with his message and Book in the third year of Trajan (101), sees huge Yeshu & female Holy Spirit, rejects Paul and wheat, revivifies vegetarian Nazorean monastic movement in which Mani will be raised in after his birth in 216. Elkesai and the Elkasites represents a renewal of the traditional Nazorean Path. He was a legitimate prophet in the Lineage of Life that went from Yohanna, to Yeshu, to James, to Miryai, and eventually to Elxai. Most eyewitnesses to Yeshu are dead by this time and a major shift occurs in Nazorean lifestyle and culture.

112   Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus ("Pliny the Younger"), wrote in 112 CE that Christians sang "a hymn to Christ as to a god."

116-126   According to Iraneus, the Roman Christian Bishop Sixtus was the first to celebrate a Sunday Easter in Rome instead of the traditional Nisan 15 [full moon] date on the lunar [Shawui] calendar. Roman Christians are quite separate from their Nazorean and Elchasite cousins by this time.

120   Cornelius Tacitus, wrote in 120 CE, "Nero punished...a class of men, loathed for their vices, whom the crowd styled Christians.  Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of  Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus."   Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus, writes, "As the Jews were making constant disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus, he [Claudius] expelled them from Rome."  (circa 120 CE)

131   Roman laws and legal procedures codified. Bar Kochba uprising 132-135

132   Shimeon Bar-Kokhba and Rabbi Akiba Ben-Joseph lead Jews in a revolt against Roman rule. They capture Jerusalem and create an independent state of Israel.

135   Jerusalem razed to the ground, Judea erased from the map - remaining records destroyed or lost. Nazorean Bishopric of Jerusalem-Betharbara flee and the Roman form of Christianity takes ascendancy in the west. Probably no firsthand witnesses to Yeshu's life are still alive. True Nazorean life has shifted eastward to Elchasite monasteries in Iraq and elsewhere.  Basilides, a Gnostic, wrote Exigetica which apparently referred to Gospel stories like the Sermon on the Mount and the Rich Man and Lazarus.  Approximate date Ptolemy records 1,022 stars in Almagest; also recorded astrological ideas from Enuma Anu Enlil in his Apotelesmatika.

136-149   The prophet Valentinius taught esoteric Gnostic interpretations and attracted so many followers he almost became Bishop of Rome. He was a legitimate prophet in the Lineage of Life that went from Yohanna, to Yeshu, to James, to Miryai, and eventually to Elxai.

140   Taoist Alchemy text written by Wei Po-yang (fl. 140 CE). It still is practised today in its internal (yogic) form.

c142   Marcion, a Gnostic, published a proto-Gospel apparently similar to Luke, but shows no knowledge of the four Gospels and has no genealogy in the text.

c142   Shepherd of Hermas is written, presenting a highly developed system of bishops, deacons, and priests.

150  Roman Mithraism competes with Christianity. Yellow Turban Society subdues northern China, Triad cult formed in opposition.

c150  Nagarjuna founds the Madhyamika or Middle Way Mahayana school which teaches that true salvation can only be achieved by shedding all knowledge until only emptiness remains.

c150  Four "canonical" gospels are collected together by false non gnostic Christians. Original Nazorean texts fall into obscurity. By this time all first hand witnesses to Nazorean life in Batharbara and Carmel would have passed on, but second hand witnesses would have still been around in small Nazorean or Elchasite circles.

c150  School of Alexandria is founded in Egypt, quickly becoming a major center for both false Christian theology and Greek philosophy. Among its prominent teachers are the theologians Clement (died c. 215) and Origen (c. 185 - 254). They use a Harmony Gospel from Justin and Taitan.

150-160   Ptolemy, esoteric Gnostic wrote Commentary of John and a Letter to Flora. He quotes and names G.John as an example of the theory of emanation (here an Ogdoad, an Eight)“

160-169   Heracleon – esoteric Gnostic, quotes the Gospel of John

166-174   Pope Soter moved Easter from Nisan 14 to following Sunday. A major shift from the luni-solar Essene calendar used by early Nazarenes to the Roman "sunday" based weekly calendar later used by Manichaeans.

170   Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth, claims Christians were changing and faking his own letters just as they had changed the "scriptures of the Lord ". Tatian had been expelled from the Church already in 170 CE.

c172   Tatian broke with heretic Roman Christianity, returned home to Syria, reportedly started his own school the Encratites who were at least slightly Nazorean, and was known for his use of a collated or harmonized  four Gospels, the Diatessaron(meaning "harmony") He probably did not write this since his teacher Justin also used a Harmony. This Harmony was also attributed to Ammonius Sakklas who was a neo-Platonist  in Alexandria. "He [Tatian] is said to be the author of the Diatessaron, which some call the Gospel According to the Hebrews". (Epiphanius, PANARION, 46.1.9)

175   Lucian, writing about 175 CE, refers to "the man who was crucified in Palestine because he introduced this new cult into the world."

c175   Hegessipus wrote 5 books of "memoirs" (some fragments remain in Eusebius).

178   Celsus wrote the first attack on the Roman Christian cult.  In Alethes Logos, or True Word.

185   Irenaeus wrote his Against All Heresies  and denounces true streams of Gnosis.

c190   Pantaenus, founder of the Catechetical School, is succeeded by Clement of Alexandria who retains some esoteric and Gnostic teachings in his mainly Roman Christian school. Roman Christian council determine "official" date of Easter.

197   First recorded usage of the term "catholic" appears in the writings of Apollonius; used in reference to 1 John.

c200   Buddhism begins to percolate into Tibetan region and its teachings affect the  religion in the kingdom of Shang-Shung (South Tibet). Mani will later evolve these further toward Dzogchen.

c200  First book of the cabala, Sepher Yetzirah, possibly compiled. Greek & Aramaic Kabbalah already exist in Gnostic schools. New Testament canon is mostly fixed in currently known form.

216 A.D.  Mar Mani, the promised Parclete and Maitreya, was born on 8 Nissan, 216 A.D. in Mardinu, a little village in Iraq and grows up in an Elchasite monastery after age 4.

c222   Bardesanes died by about 222, an important esoteric figure and credited with the Nazorean like Hymn of the Pearl found in the Acts of Thomas.

228   The angel At-Taum appears unto Mani in a vegetarian Elchasite monastery.

240 Mani separated from the Elkasite community in his 24th year, at the end of King Ardashir's reign. In early April of 240, or 241 AD, the angel At-Taum again appeared unto Mani and commanded him, saying: "Now the time has come for you to go out and proclaim your authority. Peace be on you, Mani, from myself and from the Lord who sent me to you and who has chosen you for His Message. He has now bidden you to invite to your truth, and to proclaim the good news of the Truth from before Him, and   to persevere in that with all your zeal."

240-241   Mar Mani sailed to India, specifically to the Indus valley which is today's Beluchistan, where he converted a Buddhist King, the Turan Shah of India.

242   On the second Sunday after Easter, 20 March, A.D. (or perhaps April 9, 243) Mani first proclaimed  his gospel in the city of the King, Gundesapor, on the coronation day of Sapor I, when vast crowds from all parts were gathered together. A significant day in the resurgence of Nazorean Gnosticism.

244  The Living Gospel was written and illustrated in a Turkestan cave and contains an account of the mission of Yeshu (Jesus). Mani began this 22 chapter book and his letters by referring to himself as the messenger of Jesus. After Mani spent a year in a cave making paintings on its walls, writing his Gospel and illustrating his Ardahang,

245  Mani traveled to Shapur's court. It is said that the King saw  two torches of light over Mani's shoulders at their first meeting which influenced him to accept the prophetic calling of Mani. There Mani requested and was able to obtain certain royal letters to all the Persian governors telling them not to hinder his mission and to allow him free roam within the kingdom.

255  Zarathustrian magi led by Kartir persuaded Shapur to break with Mani and promote their religion in the empire, causing Mani to go into exile. In the next eighteen years the prophet returned to Khorasan and traveled in central Asia as far as western China, returning by way of Tibet and Kashmir. Kartir writes: "And Jews, Sramans (Buddhists), (10) Brahmins, Nasoreans (Orthodox Christians), (Gnostic) Christians, Maktak (Baptisers), and Zandiks (Manichaeans) in the empire were smitten, and destruction of idols and scattering of the stores of the devs and god-seats and nests was abandoned. "

272   Zazai immigrated from Media into the Euphrates Valley of Iraq and Iran about 272A.D. Zazai represents the Dorithian branch of the ancient Nazoreans,  followers of John the Baptist but not Yeshu. Has 6 other helpers and codifies later Mandaean texts. Their oldest colophons go back to him.

273 Hormizd I, governor of Khorasan, the royal Persain court once again supported the Manichaeans; but this support was short lived since he died after reigning but one year.

274   Vahram takes persian throne. He was not a kind king toward Mani and ended the period of toleration Mani and other sects had received. It was a time when the Zarathustrian Priesthood, under Karter, took control of the country and began a period of bitter persecution. Mani tried to meet with the new king at his winter palace in Ctesiphon but failed to do so. Mani was later accused and brought before King Vahram.

274   Aurelian … created a new cult of the “Invincible Sun.”

274    Zakwa taught Manichaeanism in Syria and southern Palestine in 274 while Mani was still teaching.

276   Mani was arrested at Gundev Shapur in 276A.D., was kept in chains until he died 26 days later.  Mani died in prison on February 26 in 277A.D. His death was told by two of his disciples - Amu and Ozei, in Mir.

276-289   Four years of persecution occurred after Mani's crucifixion before Sisin could fully re-organize the church.  Manichaeans told AnNadim that "when Mani was taken up to the Gardens of the Light, Sisin arose after him as the Imam before his taking up, and until he too received God's Religion and His Revelation were standing firm."

280   Psattiq carried the Manichaean teachings of the Light Land to Rome by 280 A.D.  He was in Egypt in 244 and 251 when the Fundamental Epistle was sent to him.

281   Sisin reigned as Manichaean Imam from 281 to 291, according to the "Book of Crucifixion". During the early years of Sisin Amu went on a missionary journey to central Asia and Addai taught and edited writings in Africa.

287   In 287 the African proconsul Julian warned Diocletian that this strange Manichaean  religion's ideas on sex, war, agriculture, and civic duties endangered Roman society. Diocletian issued a decree.

290   Manichaeism was flourishing in the Fayyum district of Egypt, and the Syrian Psalms of Thomas would soon be translated into Coptic.

291   Terrible persecution arose once again in the Persian empire in 291. Vahram II killed Sisin himself, and many Manichaeans were slaughtered. Bahram I is said to have buried 200 Manichaeans with their heads downward in pits and their feet tied to stakes." This evil king is reported to have then said: "See the garden that Bahram the king has planted!"

291-303   Innai reigned as Manichaean Imam from 291 to 303. He was known as a great healer. Soon after the murder of Sisin, the King took seriously ill and resorted to Innai's medical expertise to heal him. After his recovery he issued proclamations of tolerance for the Manichaeans and the faith again began to spread easily.

296   The fifth year of Innai's Imamship, Diocletian extended the Christian persecution to the Manichaeans, resulting in numerous martyrs in Egypt and North Africa.

296-303   During the Persian king Narsi rule, which extended from this same time of 296 to 303, the Manichaeans were left in peace in Persia. This peaceful period resulted in at least two commentaries being written, one on the Mysteries, and the other on the Treasure of Life.

296   On the 30th of march Diocletian decreed against the Manichaeans that: "We order that their organizers and leaders be subject to the final penalties and condemned to the fire with their abominable scriptures.

298   The religion spread to Lydia and the Balkanss where Manichaean burials were taking place as early as 298.

c300-400    Yoga (Yogocara), the second major Mahayana school, is founded by brothers Vasubandhu and Asanga. According to their teaching absolute reality is mind or consciousness therefore thought creates objects out of itself.  Buddhist tantras emerge in India, mingling Hindu Tantras with Buddhist thought.

300   By this date, a village in India was known as Mani-grama, or Mani's Town.

301   Armenia becomes the first country to make non Nazorean Christianity its state religion.

303   The new king Hormizd II ascended the throne and immediately executed Innai. The next four Manichaean leaders were also killed. Diocletian orders a general persecution of all Christians.

305  Anthony was establishing the first orthodox Christian monastery in Egypt. He is considered by them to be the father of the monastic movement, yet the Manichaean Church had been establishing monasteries all over the known world for decades before this time. Anthony was known for forbidding his monks to have any contact with Manichaeans since so many of them were being converted by the Manichaean Psalms which are so much more beautiful and inspiring than the poorer and meaner Jewish Christian Psalms.

306  Synod of Elvira the growing gentile Pauline church prohibits eating, marriage, sex between Christians & Semetic peoples,  which entailed exclusion of all Essene Nazarene Christians from the growing gentile church.

312   Manichaean monasteries were existent in Rome itself during the time of the Christian Pope Miltiades.

318   In A.D. 318, the then Bishop of Rome (now known as Pope Sylvester) is said to have met personally with eight Desposyni leaders - each of whom presided over a branch of the Church - at the Lateran Palace.

312   "Constantines vision at the battle of the Milvan Bridge in 312 AD led to his proclamation of Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire"

320  Apostle Thomas had died in Egypt and a new enemy of Mani, Hegemonius, was spreading slander and lies in a supposed portrayal of Mani's life called the Acts of Archelaus.

320-600   Birth of Vajrayana Buddhism.

321  Constantine decrees Sunday as official Roman-Christian day of rest.

323  Saint Pachomius (ca. 292-346) and his sister settle in Tabennesi in southern upper Egypt, establishing a cenobitic monastic system, somewhat after ancient Essene monasteries,  there where over 5000 monks and nuns lived at his death. His writings are later refurbished, possibly covering up more Gnostic leanings.

325 Council of Nicaea, called by Constantine against Arianism (336), called  "1st great Christian council" by Jerome, 1st ecumenical, 318 bishops attend. Nazarenes purposely excluded and legislated against.

325  Pachomius was founding his form of monasteries on the Nile and Constantine was convening the Nicene Council which would eventually empower Roman Christians with state support. They would later use this power to continue to persecute and ridicule the Manichaean movement.

330  Non gnostic Monasteries begin to resurface in Palestine.

333   Egeria's Description of the Liturgical Year in Jerusalem: Translation of an early pilgrims visit to Jerusalem about 333 C.E.

336   Council of Nicaea, called by Constantine against Arianism (336), called  "1st great Christian council" by Jerome, 318 non-Nazorean bishops attend. Nazarenes and Manichaeans were purposely excluded and legislated against.

334-413    Life of Kumarajiva, who translated more than 100 Buddhist texts from Sanskrit into Chinese.
Fa Hsing of China, at the age of 64 travels to India and studies Buddhism there for seven years. He brings back to China many signifcant Vinaya scriptures. He is the first Chinese monk to write a detailed account of his travels in India: A Record of Buddhist Kingdoms -- 399-414 AD

340   Coptic translations of Mani's  Kephalia, the Psalm Book and the Homilies had been published.

345   Serapion of Tmuis in Egypt and Titas of Bostra in Iraq were attacking the faith.

348 African accusers were attacking the faith.

350   The Manichaean scholar Aphtonius published his famous Commentary at Alexandria in 350, soon followed by Hierakas' Hexameron Commentary.  Probable date of the great Buddhist teachers Vasubandhu and Asanga, who were brothers. The former established the Vijnânavâda school and the latter founded the Yogâcâra school of Mahâyâna Buddhism.

354  Hilary of Poitiers would write that the Manichaean faith was a force to be reckoned with in southern France where it would survive far into the middle ages and give birth to later Manichaean like faiths such as the Cathars.

356  Vita S. Antoni [Life of St. Antony] - Athanasius of Alexandria:  (Written between 356 AND 362)

364-388 a Manichaean named Constantius was disguised as a Christian and helping  the Martari to secretly organize Manichaean Monasteries there.

365   Epiphanius of Salamis, writing about 365 AD wrote a hostile report of the teachings of Mani and other Gnostics in his Panarion. (see: Sect 66 of the Panarion. )

366   Mogao caves started in Dunhuang. A Tang Dynasty inscription records that the first cave in the Mogao Grottoes was made in 366 A.D. Despite erosion and man-made destruction, the 492 caves are well preserved, with frescoes covering an area of 45,000 square metres, more than 2,000 colored sculptured figures and five wooden eaves overhanging the caves.

367   Festal Epistle of St. Athanasius offers earliest known list of false New Testament canon in current form. Truer Nag Hammadi documents buried around this time in response to Athanasius' anti-gnostic letters translated and read in upper Egyptian Monasteries.

370   Manichaean Monasteries were being created in Anatolia by Eustathius.

370  Basil the Great is baptised and sets off to visit monks in Syria and Egypt who preserve some Essene traditions and customs. On his return he established cenobitic life in Cappodocia, writing the Long and Short rules about 370. This tradition is tainted with non-gnostic texts and teachings.

371   In the year 371 A.D. there, suddenly appeared five foreigners before the king Thothori Nyan tsan, who instructed him, how he might use for the general welfare of Tibet four objects, which, in the year 331 A.D. had fallen from heaven, enclosed in a precious chest, but of' the intrinsic value of which no one had hitherto entertained any adequate idea. These instructions being given, the five foreigners at once disappeared.

372  Valentinian I prohibited all Manichaean meetings, and during this period the famous Augustin adopted the Manichaean faith for a decade.

377  Herakleides was writing of their dualistic doctrine in Egypt.  In Alexandria Egypt one Didymus was opposing  two Manichaean sects there - the vegetarian Saddikini and the Sammakini who were said to be immune to poison.

378   Saint Melania (342-ca409) establishes a double monastery in Jerusalem for both monks and nuns to live together, continuing the semi-Nazarene Essene custom of monastic living. This tradition is tainted with non-gnostic texts.

380   Non Nazorean Christianity (Nazorean Culture Abandoned) becomes the official religion of the Roman Empire under the reign of Theodosius I. (The Falling Away, Demise of Original Christianity -)

381-389 Christians urged Theodosius I to take away Manichaean civil rights in 381. Theodosius I was decreeing more laws against the Manichaeans, that their monks be put to death in 382, that the remaining be exiled in 384, and in 389 all their property was to be confiscated in Rome.  The decree of death to all Manichaean monks in 382 may have been why Augustin abandoned the faith in that same year.

382   Theodosius I decreed Manichaean elders put to death.

382: Pope Damasus I has Jerome begin revision & unification of Latin Bibles

383 Evagrius Ponticus (345-399) arrives in Nitria and the Cells in the Egyptian desert. He transmits monastic Essene tradition to writing. This tradition is tainted with non-gnostic texts.

384   Vulgate Latin Bible, reformed by Jerome, becomes standard Western Christian Bible – earlier versions are destroyed. (Bible Fabrication)

383   Theodosius banished all Manichaeans. Exile was again decreed by Valentinian II.

385   Manichaean Bishop Faustus of Carthage is exiled to an island for his faith.

389   In Rome Manichaean  property was confiscated.

394    Emperor Theodosius declares Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire.

396   Meropius Paulinus (ca353-431), with his wife Therasia establish a house monastery at Nola.

399   By the end of the century Mani's  the Treasure was being taught in Spain, Portugal and Galacia by Mark of Memphis despite the persecutions of Christian Bishops like Evodius of Uzzala, and the Manichaean movement was continuing to spread veganism and the worship of the Hidden Living Ones throughout the western and eastern empires. During the last century Buddhist cave temples, the world's largest, are carved into the mountainsides in Dunhuang, China. (Manichaean Grotto Temples)The secret of silk-making leaks out along the Silk Road's westward route. Bamiyan, 240 kilometers northwest of Kabul, Afghanistan, had become one of the greatest Buddhist monastic communities in all Central Asia by the 4th century.

400   The Kingdom of Axum converts to Christianity. Nestorian Christianity becomes dominant Christian sect in Sassinid Empire.

c400   Manichaean Bishop Faustus tells us that the New Testament is not pure and that one should be careful what one receives from it.

404  Julia of Antioch converted the whole city of Gaza to Mani's Religion of Light with her teachings, and Philon was converting souls in the Sinai where the Treasure of Life and the Mysteries of Mani were being circulated.

405  Augustin wrote against the Manichaeans and against one of their priests named Felix who had been captured with five of Mani's wondrous scriptures.

407 Manichaean texts could only be circulated secretly. If found with them, one would be tried for heresy and possibly burned along with them.  Ado of Adiabene was teaching the faith near the Karun River of Iraq and the elect were known to be numerous at that time in Armenia.

415  Bishop Cyril of Alex. (444) expels Jews, kills Hypatia, of the Pythagorean school which preserved many Essene teachings, with oyster shells.

418   British monk Pelagius (c. 354 - 420) is excommunicated. Pelagius denied original sin and the need for baptism.

424  John Cassian is born. He later writes Institutions, Conferences, and Collations which detail monastic traditions passed on from ancient Essene Nazorean monasteries.

c430  The beginning of real vegetarianism in the Chinese Buddhist community as a result of the Nirvana Sutra availability.

431  Syrian Christianity splits into East (Nestorian) and West (Jacobites). Nestorians supposedly preserve the Essene Gospel of Peace and the remnants of the Shawui calendar of Yeshu-Miryai. Ecumenical Council of Ephesus denounces the teachings of Nestorius (d. 451), who argued that Christ had completely separate human and divine natures. In addition to voting that Christ was fully human and fully divine at the same time, it also voted that Mary was the mother of God as well as of Jesus Christ.

432  Melania the Younger establishes a convent for nuns on the Mt. of Olives, and one for men nearby in 436, continuing the Nazarene Essene custom of monastic living but based on false texts.

440   Mani's texts were still being circulated in Syria, Palestine and in North Africa, according to Rabboulas of Edessa.

443   Pope Leo searched out clandestine Manichaeans,a nd burned their beautiful books at the doors of his churches. He then banished all Manichaeans from Italy. His ways inspired another rash of persecution in Gaul, Sicily, Galacia,  and North Africa.

443  Valentinian III refreshed the older Honorian Law against the Manichaeans from 405.

446   Persecution of Buddhism by Toba Turkic king

448  Decree by Theodosius to exile the Manichaeans and a harsh persecution in Persian lands by Yesdijerd II. During the reign of Feroz a certain Battai, known as a Kantean Gnostic, became a Manichaean and edited the scriptures and established a new sect in the Church.

450-494   Yunkang cave temples begun.

450-750  Buddhist caves started in Kizil, Xinjiang

476-542   T'an-luan is first master of the Pure Land School

480     Buddhist missionary Bodhidharma arrives in China. The Zen school of Buddhism eventually arises from his teachings.

483  Saint Sabbas (439-532) establishes his monastic laura  at Mar Saba, south of Jerusalem, continuing the Nazarene Essene custom of monastic living. It is here that the Secret Gospel of Mark will be found in the late 20th century.

484-519  Acacian schism: over "Henoticon" divides Western and Eastern churches. Eastern churches preserving more of the original Nazarene doctrines than the Western Rite, but were still deviant.

c480  Benedict of Nursia is born. He will later write the Rule, the standard canon for western monasteries, based on the Rule of the Master which is itself based on older, now lost, links that go back to Essene Monastic Rules and otehrs such as the Serek Yahad of the DSS.

495   Pope Gelasius repeated Pope Leo's cruel torture against the Religion of Light in Rome. This was offset somewhat by great Manichaean growth and success in the courts and lands of Constantinople to the east. Thus the faith of Mani continued to spread despite bitter persecution.

494-524  Mazdak created an unusual expression of our Order that lasted about 30 years. Under the pretext of arranging a debate, they gathered Mazdak and his followers in the royal garden and buried them there alive. The King then had  80,000 Mazdakians and orthodox Manichaeans killedl. Mazdak's  teachings survived his death  and later inspired movements like Abu-Muslim Khorasani, Babak Khoramdin, and Sarbedaran in later years.

498  Nestorians settle in Nisibis, Persia

502  Narsai of Mealletha, Syrian poet, heads Nestorian school in Nisibis(498)

510  Pope of Rome had again found enough Manichaean books to again burn them in public.

515-528   Queen Hu of Toba sent the Buddhist pilgrim Sung Yun to northwestern India.

515-597   Life of Chih-i, who founded the T'ien-t'ai school in China. According to his teachings, apparent contradictions in the Buddha's teachings are actually different levels of the same truth.

520   Another public burning happened in 520.

525   Justin I again ordered death for anyone refusing to denounce Mani and his religion.

525  Dionysius Exiguus erroneously ets Christian calendar (a.d.) & Jesus birth @ 23Dec 1ce

526 Defection of one Prosper in 526.  His "Abjuration" became a model denouncement for all Manichaeans who converted downward to Catholicism.

529   Benedict founded Cassino and began a thrust of Catholic style monasticism. His Rule was based on the older Rule of the Master, which itself was greatly dependent on far older and truer Rules of our Order.  During this same period  Eustathius was accusing Severus of being a crypto-Manichaean.  Two copies of the Manichaean "Two Roots" were discovered in a Constantinople library  and one Zarachias wrote seven refutations of them while a fellow herisiologist named Paul the Persian was attacking the Manichaean preacher Photinus.

530  "At the second council of Constantinople, reincarnation, which had been previously accepted in Christianity, was officially ruled out.

538-597   Chih-i organizes the T-ien-t'ai School

543  Persian translation of the CMT existed.

543   The date of Prince Bodhi-Dharma’s journey appears as 543 BCE in the chronicles of Emperor Vu Yu’s reign.

552   Emperor Shotoko Taishi introduces Buddhism into Japan

563-567   Turks took over Soghdiana between 563 and 567, and showed tolerance for the many followers of Mani who lived in that land.

570   No overt expressions of Mani's teachings could exist in the western world then being dominated by the Popes and Pauline Christian bigotry. Certainly such exited, but not openly or overtly.  It could exist more openly in the near east in places like Antioch.

574-622  Prince Shotuku, the "founder" of Buddhism in Japan

584  A supposed miracle of a self lighting candle whilst a Manichaean priest sought permission of the Turks to teach the Religion of Light created an atmosphere where the doctrines of Mani were freely taught for many centuries under their tolerant rule.

586   Kingdom of Nu Kuo was known at the Tibetan Court. This 'Kingdom of Women' was in the Tsung-ling Mountains in northern Tibet. Queen lived in a nine-storied house."

590  Turks conquered Tokharistan, Balkh, Heart and other provinces, opening the door for them to become Manichaean. Syrian Nestorians brought into Armenia copies of an "Explanation of Mani's Gospel" at this time period.

591-604   As the century grew to a close, Pope Gregory I who sat on the papal throne from 590 to 604, again found it pleasurable to persecute and kill Mani's children and books who were again appearing in great numbers in Africa, Sicily and Calabria.

596 - 664     Hsuan Tsang, founds the Yoga (Fa-hsiang) school in China. He is the most influential pioneer in the translation of scriptures from Sanskrit to Chinese. He travelled throughout the northern and central regions of India, studied in monasteries for 17 years and finally brought 600 scrolls of scriptures back to China. He established a translation academy of more than 800 monks, responsible for translating a significant portion on Sanskrit scriptures into Chinese.

c600-700   Shangshung was conquered by the expanding Tibetan empire in the 7th Century AD. Scholars report that the teachings of Yungdrung Bon from Zhang-zhung were brought there from Tazik, or Iranian speaking Central Asia, to Zhang-zhung in Western and Northern Tibet by a number of mysterious white-robbed sages long before the political events of the seventh and eighth centuries. This would have been manichaean Elect.

600   Death of Shad Ohrmizd, founder of the more strict and Jain like Denewar sect of Eastern Manichaeism.

601 - 636 Isidore waged a hardened attack against all things Manichaean in Seville from 601 to 636

613- 681 Shan-tao founds the Pure Land sect (Ching-t'u) in China.

617   Birth of Tibetan King Srongtsan Gampo, who introduced Buddhism and died 698.

618  Tang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.) is established in China. Receptive to foreign cultural influences, Buddhism continues to flourish.

620  Manichaeanism had spread eastward over the Silk Road and had penetrated China. The Denawar expression of Manichaeanism which developed in these eastern lands along the Silk Road was being called T'i-na-pa in China.  The vegan philosophy of Mani was gaining ground all over the known world and defenders of Roman Christianity were working hard to destroy it by persecution, torture and propaganda.

624   "In 624 AD, a Moslem invasion weakened the Kingdom of Shambhala." Beginnings of the Kalachakra calendar in 624 AD have the same beginning as the Islamic Calendar.

630   Theodore of Raithai was condemning Manichaeanism  near Arabia in 630. Hiouen-tsang reports the followers of Mani were the dominant faith near Merv in western Turkestan.

632   Tibet declares Tantric Buddhism as the state religion.

635   A Manichaeanism delegation from Persia entered China at Chang-an, now Xian. Alwoben was the leader. All were dressed in white with icons of Christ and Miryai, and some saints, and their holy books, carried before them. The Tang ruler accepted their teachings and proclaimed them everywhere. This was the beginning of the Bright Relgion of Mani in China. This is recorded on the Stone of the Church of the East, carved in 781.

638  The emporor had a Persian (Religion of Light of Mani) temple built for Alossu (Alwoben?) from Da Qin.  The "Sutra of the Teachings of the World Honored One", is written "641 years" from Yeshu. The "Sutra of Origins", the "Sutra of Cause, Effect and Salvation", and  The "Sutra of Jesus Christ", all sealed up at Dun-Huang in 1005, may also have been translated at this time as well. (They came to light in the 1920's.)

638-713  Hui-neng, founds the Ch'an sect in China in reaction to scholastic trends of traditional Buddhism.

c640   Ramuia  edited and interpolated certain Nazorean texts preserved by Zazai, forming the present body of scriptures used by the Mandai. The Haran Gawaitha it speaks of a Zazai and six others who transcribed texts about 272 A.D., thus creating an apostate branch of the Order that turned into the modern Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran.

641   King Songtsen Gampo unifies Tibet and marries Chinese princess Wen Cheng and Nepalese Princess Bhrkuti who bring Buddha images. Nyingmapas accept as Buddhist those teachings of non-Indian origin (Manichaean?) that were spread  into Tibet during this reign, and later in the eighth century by Padmasambhava.

642   Tibetans destroyed Zhang Zhung in 642-645 AD and imported Mani's Bonpo.

650    Da Qin Manichaean Monastery, the second in China, is built int he heart of Taosism - Lou Gwan Tai precinct. The Stone speaks of similar ones soon to be built in every province and city of China.

650-699  During at least part of the last half of this seventh century an Abu Yahya arRais, or Abba John of Raid, was the known by Islam as the Imam, or Arkhegos,  of the Manichaeans.

651  Islamic Jihad under Khalid took Persia and became the state religion there, wiping out the old Mazdean enemy of the Manichaeans. Islam was tolerant of Manichaeanism  and considered it a religion of the book, protected by Quranic law. Islam even understood Manichaeanism to be a faith that worshipped one God,d espite the many titles of angels and divine beings utilized by the faith of Mani.

645  Tibet Buddhism was established in Llasa where it mixed with Manichaeanism which had entered into Tibet from the west and north, creating the Path of Vajrayana, or Tibetan Tantric Buddhism. The main center of Manichaeanism was more east and north of the Oxus, extending out into the Pamir plain. Many Chinese mercenaries who had come to that region to fight in the Persian wars embraced this faith of Mani.

650   Manichaeanism had entered China proper and would be a force to be reckoned with there for more than a thousand years. At this same time a Paul and his brother John of Callinice founded the Manichaean-like sect of the Paulicians in Armenia. Constans II immediately began waging war against them.

658  Kucha developed to be a leading center of Hinayana Buddhism and the paintings were found at the cave temples of Kizil (near Kucha).

661    Ummaiyad dynasty took power in 661, Manichaeanism was again branded as a heresy because of its past associations with the previous toppled government. The sect of Zandiqs, or Tsaddigin Elect, were labeled a pernicious heresy and its books were burned.

665   Manichaean teachings significantly spread into central Asia from China.

668   Taoist Book Hwa-hu-king was banned in China. This work was Manichaean and spoke of the "Three Times" and the "Two Sources". It also taught  that Lao-Tzu, the founder of Taoism, later reincarnated as Mo-Moni, or Mar Mani (Mani the Lord) and as Buddha.

670-692   Manichaeanism existed in eastern Turkestan where the Uighur Turks were intermixing with Iranians and Scyths. Manichaeanism, along with Buddhism, became extremely prevalent in this area. Manichaeanism tended to express itself in Buddhist terminology in this land. This Buddhist Manichaeanism mix, of which Mani would have been proud, had a profound influence of Mahayana Buddhism which would soon become the dominant form of Buddhism. Manichaean elements are especially discernable in Buddhist schools such as the pure land sect and continued to influence the unique development of Vajrayana Buddhism in Tibet.

675   Development of Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism

676   In 676 AD, the then Japanese emperor Tenmu proclaimed an ordinance prohibiting the eating of fish and shellfish as well as animal flesh and fowl. Subsequently, in the year 737 of the Nara period, the emperor Seimu approved the eating of fish and shellfish.

682-745   Kok Turks abandoned Buddhism and returned to nomadic religion.

684   Persecutions of Bonpos begins inTibet udner its seventh King.

690 Manichaean sect of the Denewar had crept back into Iraq to some degree.

694-700   Aftadan, or Fu-tuo-tan, one of the 70 Overseers of the Manichaean Church, had translated the "Two Sources" into Chinese and had taken it to the Chinese Court by 700. On his way to China he traveled through Kashgar, Kucho and Karashahr where Manichaeanism was strong. The land of Maralbashi and the Sassian Kingdom, east of Kashgar, was totally Manichaean. The Religion of Mani was the state religion there. It  also had translations of Manichaean texts in its own tongue by this time. In this Manichaean land a whole month was known as a month of fasting, and Manichaean terms from Sogdia were found in the official state Calendar.

699   At Constantinople a Leontius stated near the close of the century that the Manichaean canon of scripture included the Gospel of Thomas, Philip, the Gnostic Infancy, and the Heptalogue of Agapius.

700-800  Sufi mysticism begins. 8th Century: Inception of Dzogchen. One of the most controversial traditions of the Tibetan Nyingma and Bon lineages.

700-799   In the 8th century, the Bon Dzogchen  teachings, originating with Mani, were introduced into Tibet from Zhang-zhung by the masters Tapihritsa and Gyerpungpa.

705-715 a Manichaean elect named Zad-hormizd founded a new sect of Manichaeanism at Ctesiphon, Iraq that was even more strict than the eastern Denewar sect. This new sect of Zad-hormizd  attracted many from the Media Hills and from Kurdistan.

710   Manichaeans in Mesopotamia split into two denominations from 710-880. The more lenient and official one led by Mihr who presided from 710-740, and the other more strict breakoff by Zadhormuzd and then Miklas. Monastic followers of the Mihr migrated into Turfan sometime between 763 to 840, causing scandal with their habit of doing daily chores instead of being waited on like the Turfan Monastics. They were called Syrians by the Turfanites.

715-731   The Roman Church, under Pope Gregory II was still actively persecuting Manichaeans in Sicily and in the west during his tenure.

719  Ti-sho, King of Tokharistan, sent one of the Manichaean 12 Apostles to China with letters of recommendation that the Emporer build a Manichaean temple there. Within two years at least some Manichaean Temples existed in China, being known as the Ming-kiao, or Religion of Light.

722   Zad-hormizd  successor was Miqlas who took leadership in 722.

727   Hadda was a center of Hinayana (Small Vehicle). Bamiyan, described by Xuan Zang in the 7th century, practiced Hinayana Buddhism whereas by 727 AD, another visitor Hui-chao described the monastery devoting to Mahayana (Big Vehicle) Buddhism.

728   Birth of Tibetan King Thisrong de tsan, who lived in the years 728-786 A.D. reviver of Buddhism.

730   The Paulicians of Armenia continued to grow, being led by Constantine and Simeon about 730, who were succeeded by Paul II, then Gegnasius and Theodore.

731 CMT was translated into Chinese by imperial order.

732 An edict restricted the worship of the Buddha Mani to foreigners known as the "Masters of the Hu of the West". Other texts circulated also. The Denewar sect was officially allowed into Bagdad during this period provided they kept separate from the stricter Miqlasis sect and remained loyal to the Mihr sect and Imam in Babylonia who were officially recognized by the Islamic government. By the middle of the century the Miqlasis were led by their Imam Buzurmihr, whilst the Mihriyand were led by Abu Sa-id Raha from Rai and then Abu Hillal adDehuri from Africa. These two sects had at least some influence on the teachings of various Sufi orders which began to arise about this time.

747   The eighth century saw the glorious rise of Padmasambhava and Yeshey Tzogyal in the land of Tibet where they vivified the Manichaean and Buddhist mixture that came to be known as Vajrayana, the third and highest vehicle of Buddhism. Their particular expression became so strong by 747 that more outward and traditional forms of Manichaeanism no longer prevailed in the more southern portions of their land of snows.

751   "Kashgar, Khotan, Karashahr, and Kucha (the four garrisons) were defeated by the Arabs in 751 and the whole of inner Asia was lost."

757   Manichaeanism  was still the strongest religion and was the state religion of the Uighur Kingdom which by 757 stretched from northern Tibet all the way to the Yellow River in China. (Some give the date of 762 for the Uighur King conversion to Manichaeanism.)

c757   Birth of female buddha and possible incarnation of Miryai Magdala - Yeshey Tzogyal  (757- 817, Tibet).

c759   Thus 'Shambhala' must be a special name for the Uighur Kingdom centered at Khocho that flourished circa 850-1250." Defeated the Turks in Mongolia in 744 AD...Converted to Manichaeism in 759 AD...

c.760 Anan Ben David founds the Kairite movement in Judaism as a protest against rabbinic law and to assert the unique authority of Holy Scripture. The Kairite movement seems influenced by certain Dead Sea Scroll texts. Not Gnostic, but anti mainline Judaism.

760-780 Manichaean texts were being translated into Turkish by such Manichaean scholars as Jouei-si. This scholar, and three other monks, were sent to Turfan near Kocho by the Uighur King. The eastern capital of the Tang dynasty was reading  the Shapur-aqan, the Gospel, and the Epistle to Hata at this same time.

761-762   Uighur King in northern Tibet accepts fully the Manichaean religion, submits to the elect, and declares the Manichaean Religion of Light the official state religion of his empire. It will last untill 840.

762  Pehlevi Book of Prayers was begun in Turfan where the Manichaean Leader, or "King of the Religion", resided within the Uighar State that had embraced and championed Manichaeanism. Thousands of Buddhists are known to have converted to it at this time.

765    Permission to build temples in four other provincial capitals in Tangtseu wre granted. These were designated to be built according to Manichaean standards at Hou-pei, Kiang-su, Kiang-si, and Tcho-Kiang. These were built for the "Light of the Great Clouds" which was the name of the monastic Order of Manichaean monks and nuns known for their white robes and coiffures.

c765   Constantine V brought many of these Paulicians from Melitene to Thrace where they flourished and would later influence the Bogomile sect.

768   Temples of Mani arose in Lo-yang and Tch'ang-ngan. Manichaean Temple in China

772 Exact and literal translations of Manichaean texts began to surface in Arabic around Bagdad and many were converted.

774   King Trisong Detsen invites Padmasambhava, yogin of Swat, to Tibet.

775-779   Construction of Samye monastery begins.

775   Paul II's grandson Zacharias was their leader of quasi-Manichaean sect, followed by Joseph and Baaness his disciple

775-785   Al-Mahdi killed thousands of these during his reign from 775 to 785 and secret Manichaeans were being accused or hunted throughout this Islamic state.

777   Padmasambhava takes tantric Buddhism into Tibet where some form of Dzogchen from Mani already exists.

779  Bön was generally discouraged and a further serious attempt was made to eradicate it. This was the second persecution of Bön, by King Trisong Detsen.

781  During the Tang dynasty (618-906), Dunhuang surrendered to the Tibetans after ten years' resistance.

785   Samye, Tibet's 1st monastery, built by Trisong Detsen and Padmasambhava. Great Convocation, 3000 monks ordained. Translating begins.

790-795   Translations and new creations of Manichaean texts were finished at Turpan and Kuchu under the auspice of the Master Yazd-Mari-Aryansha at Turfan.

799  Manichaean "Masters" were being ordered by Chinese authorities to pray for rain, indicating their prestige, numbers  and renown in that land.

729 The planetary week of the Manichaeans was established in China with Manichaean names.

759   Chinese Buddhist monk Wu-kung visited Gandhara between 759-764, he found there Buddhist temples, which as he believed, were built by the Turkish kings.

c799   Zhang Zhung Nyan Gyud, the Oral Transmission of Zhang Zhung, the oldest and most important Dzogchen tradition and meditation system in Bon, exists. This series of teachings was systematized the Zhang Zhung master Gyerpung Nangzher Lodpo, who received them from his master Tapahritsa in the eighth century.

800  Manichaean skill and reverence for their texts was still being admired even by their enemies who would complain of their great beauty and precious metal and jewel inlays.

c800   Hiwi Al-Balkhi scandalizes Jewish communities by openly attacking the morality of Scripture and issuing an expurgated version for use in schools that omits "offensive" materials.

806   The Manichaean presence in the Uighur kingdom had continued unabated. By 806 it was reported that the Manichaeans there drank only water and used no milk or meat in any form. They were also said to not eat until evening.

807   The Chinese government built many temples for the Manichaeans as acts of piety. Two were requested of them on 22nd of February, 807. Also in 807 the Paulicians were given full civil rights under Sergius and Theodotus their leaders.

809   There was a rebellion in the area of Samarqand, in central Uzbekistan, where Manichaeans were calling themselves Sabaeans so as to fall under the Quranic toleration afforded this group, By calling themselves  Sabaeans the Manichaeans were being truthful inasmuch as the roots of their order went back to the Sabbaean Baptists sects of the middle east.  All were forced to spit on an icon of Mani or be put to death. The Miqlasi Imam of that period was Iazdanbakht, He was known for his dreams and criticized for them in Mihrite Manichaean criticisms.

812   A brutal persecution arose under one Michael which resulted in 10,000 Manichaeans being slain who would not curse Mani's name.

813   Birth of Jamgom Kontrul (1813-1899).

815  Paulicians rebelled and had to flee the country to escape persecution which would last another 10 years. They returned to Melitene.

816 Death of the Sufi Ma'ruf al-Karkhi.

820    Manichaeans were at peace in a dynasty of Turks at Khorassan.

830   Mani's writings were still being read in Constantinople in 830 by Nicephorus and others.

833   60,000 of Nârseh's followers were killed by the Muslims, forcing the rest, along with Nârseh, to flee into the Byzantine Empire

840-841  Uighar Kingdom of Manichaeans was overrun and by the next year China had begun to pass laws against them forbidding them to live anywhere except Kansu and Uighur. Uighur Turks were driven out from Mongolia and many settled in the area of the northern Tarim oases, mainly Turfan from 850 to 1250.

842   Two of five Manichaean Temples  in Yangtesu were closed in 842 and the monks were driven northward.  Fall of Tibetan dynasty. Killing of Langdharma (glang.dar.ma) whose name means 'youthful ox'.

843  Religion of Light of Mani, which came to China in 635, was declared totally forbidden, all her books and images were to be burned, her shrines closed, and her members property confiscated. The Manichaeans continued to meet at night and in disguise.  During the next seven years the Uighurs scattered south, south west and south east and the kingdoms of Khocho, Kantcheou, Khotan and Yurfan were created, all Manichaean states.

843  70 Manichaeans were killed in Bagdad which caused them to go incognito in the dress of their Muslim neighbors.

845  As the Tang Dynasty declines further, the Imperial government suppresses Buddhism, concerned about the religion's growing power. They destroy 4600 temples and persecute almost 300,000 monks and nuns.

848   Dunhuang taken back from the Tibetans when Chinese rule was restored in 848

850   Ismaili and Fatimid missionaries throughout Islamic Empire preach revolution against the ruling Sunni order and Abbasid state. (Isma'ilism)

850   Manichaeanism becomes the state religion of the Kingdom centered in Kocho, It remains the official state religion for 400 years, until 1250. Christian, Buddhist and Manichaean texts exist side by side in this kingdom. "The Tarim River in East Turkestan. Thus 'Shambhala',a ccording to some,  must be a special name for the Uighur Kingdom centered at Khocho that flourished circa 850-1250."

860's or 870's a great collection of Manichaean texts were deposited at Turfan whilst these same texts were be condemned and burned in the west under Basil I.

868  The oldest printed book in the world: a Chinese translation of the Diamond-Cutter Sutra

872 A history of the Zandiqs was written by one AlYaqubi. By then end of this century the Manichaean texts were no longer available or known in the west.

900-902   At the beginning of the tenth century there were at least 300 Manichaeans in Bagdad. All these, and other Manichaeans were exiled out of Iraq in 902. Some went to Khorassan and some went to Samarqand with their Imam, only to have 500 of their number arrested.

c900   Beginning of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, a Manicheian sect, roots of Cathari.

907  China's enlightened Tang Dynasty collapses (907 A.D.). Buddhism declines further, and Central Asia loses its preeminence as the crossroads of Indian and Chinese culture. The Chinese government bans foreign religions. The Uigher people of Xinjiang, who ironically were responsible for the spread of Buddhism into parts of central Asia, now embrace Islam. Kirghiz Turks establish kingdoms in the nearby trading cities of Dunhuang and Turpan.

910  Cathar movement had arisen in the west.

913  Nepalese wanders discover ancient Bonpo texts. Others begin to be found soon after.

920   Manichaeans supported an unsuccessful revolt in China, and were accused of celebrated sexual nocturnal rites.

In 930 the Manichaeans had a powerful and successful state in Toghuzghuz with its king Nsar among their converts.  This state forced the Khorassan government to cease exiling Manichaeans from its borders, and instead accept a tax from them.  Four of Mani's books were known in Bagdad at this time, including Giants, Mysteries, Treasure and Shapur-aqan.

940  AnNadim found them still in the public library there, together with the Pragmateiq, Precepts, and 76 Epistles.

950   Manichaeans were also being accused of using their books for sorcery.

951   On April 4th, 951 a delegation of Manichaeans set out from Kansu with gifts to appease the Chinese government.

960   Cathari type Manichaean movement  grew greatly in 960 due to the preaching in Thrace, Bosnia and Bulgaria by "Bogo-mil", "the friend of God". Such spread into Istria and Venetia as well. Cathars or Albigensians was the name given this particular heretical sect which flourished in the 12th and 13th centuries, mainly in Italy and regions of southern France.

961  Manichaean King of Religion sent more gifts from western Tibet. These attempts were apparently successful since by 971 they were again exorcising demons in China.

966   Kalachakra becomes widely known in India

971   Manichaeans were again exorcising demons in China

981   Manichaean Temples were also reported in Turkish areas and Khorassan in 981-984.

987  Gardizi the Arab found that most in the capital city were still Manichaean and that 300 or 400 would meet daily at the house of the Prefect to recite Mani's books, salute him, and then return home.

988   AnNadim, utilizing the records extant there, published his account of Mani in his Fihrist. He knew only 5 Manichaeans in Baghdad then, called Achari, but others lived as Sabbaeans in smaller villages.

988   Manichaean haven in Khorassan destroyed by political upheaval.

999   As the century drew to a close, the writer Biruni claimed that it took him 14 years to acquire a copy of Mani's Mysteries. Western Uighur was still mostly Manichaean, as were many in Tibet and Turkestan, but few could be found further west outside of Samarqand.

c1000   Approximate founding of Yezidi cult by Sufi Sheikh Adi in Iraq. Abode of Learning active in Cairo. Spread of Cathari Manicheism throughout Europe. Leif Ericson explores North America.

1005         The 'Cave for Preserving Scriptures', Dunhuang library, sealed up in western China. Two short Dzogchen Tantric texts, the Rig-pa'i khu-byug and the sBas-pa'i sgum-chung, are among them, along with  Manichaean texts including the Traite, The "Sutra of the Teachings of the World Honored One", The "Sutra of Origins", the "Sutra of Cause, Effect and Salvation", and  The "Sutra of Jesus Christ" is among them. Kalachakra Tantra is said to have been brought from Shambhala in Central Asia to Nalanda in India in the tenth century by the Mahasiddha Tsilupa.

1008   Emperor Lin-she-tch'and put two Manichaean books into the Taoist canon of scripture.

1012  Marpa the translator born.

1012   The Kalachakra system first appeared in India at the beginning of the 11th century

1017   Bon revival began with the discovery of a number of important texts by Shenchen Luga (969-1035).

1019 Revised Taoist canon was secretly ciculating in Fukien and was put into Lao-Tzu's great temple in Honan.

1022   New Manichaeans were first discovered in Aquitania and Orleans, in 1022, in Arras, 1025, in Monteforte near Turin, 1030, in Goslar, 1025.  Thirteen New Manichaeans were condemned to the stake at Orleans in 1022. Similar executions occurred in other places. At Milan the heretics were left the choice either to bow before the cross, or to die; but the majority plunged into the flames.

1025  More orthodox Taoists and Buddhists rejected Mani's two books and returned the canon to its former state.

1025    Supposed Cathari heretics, who acknowledged that they were disciples of the Italian Gundulf, appeared at Liège and Arras. Upon their recantation, perhaps more apparent than real, they were left unmolested.

1026  Kalachakra Tantra introduced into Tibet. Beginning of Tibetan calendar in 60 year cycles

1038-1041   Atisha comes to Tibet and founds the Kadampa school (which later becomes the Gelugpa order)

c1039   Marpa the translator (1012-1099) founder of the Kargyu school, travels to India, studies under Naropa.

1040   Birth of Milarepa, 2nd hierarch of Kagyu order and a renowned poet.

1055   Birth of Marchik Labdron (1055-1153) founder of the Chod lineage, the main lineage founded by a woman.

1035   Cathari  was being openly taught in Turan Italy. The Bogomili in the East professed this dualism in a modified form. In the West, the Albigensians  in Italy and almost all the non-Italian Cathari were rigid Dualists; mitigated Dualism prevailed among the Bagnolenses and Concorrezenses, who were more numerous than the Albanenses in Italy, though but little represented abroad.

1038   The A-krid system was founded in the 11th century by Dampa (Holy Man) Meu Gongjad Ritro Chenpo (1038-1096), who extracted the original teachings from the Khro rgyud cycle of teaching by Tonpa Shenrab.

1040  Milarepa (1040-1123) becomes greatest poet and most popular saint in Tibetan Buddhism.

1045 The sectarians appeared again at Châlons under Bishop Roger II (1043-65), who in 1045 applied to his fellow-bishop, Wazo of Liège, for advice regarding their treatment. The latter advised indulgence. No manifestation of the heresy in North France is recorded during the second half of the eleventh century; its secret existence, however, cannot be doubted.

1030-1040   Upper Italy was, after Southern France, the principal seat of the heresy. Between 1030-1040 an important Catharist community was discovered at the castle of Monteforte near Asti in Piedmont. Some of the members were seized by the Bishop of Asti and a number of noblemen of the neighbourhood, and, on their refusal to retract, were burned.

1038   Dampa Meu Gongjad Ritro Chenpo (1038-1096), founder of Atri (A-khrid) Dzogchen.

1052 In Germany it appeared principally in the Rhine lands. Some members were apprehended in 1052 at Goslar in Hanover and hanged by order of the emperor, Henry III.

1072   Menri Monastery which was established in Central Tibet, in 1072. This monastery was destroyed by a flood in 1386, and then rebuilt by Nyame Sherab Gyaltsen (1356-1415) in 1405, finally became the foremost Bonpo  monastery in Central Tibet.

1080-1088   Dzogchen branch of Dzogchen, founded  by terton Zhoton Nogrub Dragpa after "the Great Vast Expanse of the Highest Peak which is the Great Perfection," rediscovered by the great Terton Zhodton Ngodrub Dragpa in the year 1080. This discovery was part of a famous cycle of treasure texts hidden behind a statue of Vairochana at the Khumthing temple at Lhodrak. This root text is said to have been composed in the eighth century by the Bonpo master known as Lishu Tagring.

1098  Ordo Virtutum 13 by Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179):

1111 Death of al -Ghazali, critic of speculative theology and of philosophy, and also in particular of the militant Shi'ite Isma'ilism. He was accounted a renewer of the faith in the spirit of the Sunni tradition and Sufi piety.

1114 Several Cathari had been captured in the Diocese of Soissons were seized and burned by the populace while their case was under discussion at the Council of Beauvais. Others were either threatened with, or actually met a similar fate at Liège in 1144; some of them were spared owing only to the energetic intervention of the local bishop, Adalbero II. During the rest of the twelfth century, Cathari appeared in rapid succession in different places.

1119 -- Knights Templar founded in Palestine.

1120   Manichaeans, whose chiefs wore black robes and violet headgear, were involved in the Fang-la revolt in China.

1140 -- Rapid growth of Cathari sect begins.

1141   Birth of Eisai, or Yesai (1141-1215) who  founds the Rinzai Zen School of Japanese Buddhism. He briefly oversees Dogen as his Abbot.

1149 -- First Cathari bishop established.

c1150   Cathari was dominant in southern France and also strong in Italy and Lombardy.

1150   Crusaders on a pilgrimage to Mount Carmel in 1150 A.D. found a small monastery there housing Byzantine priests, who said that when their predecessors first arrived they had found the site occupied by a community of Jewish Christians who were conducting a house of studies. They had claimed to be the spiritual heirs of a Jewish monastic Order which had lived and studied there since before the birth of Yeshu. These early Christians had told the Byzantines that the settlement could trace its history back to the days of Elijah and his School of the Prophets.

1159   Thirty Cathari, German in race and speech, left an unknown place, perhaps Flanders, to seek refuge in England. Their proselytizing efforts were rewarded by the temporary conversion of one woman. They were detected in 1166 and handed over to the secular power by the bishops of the Council of Oxford. Henry II ordered them to be scourged, branded on the forehead, and cast adrift in the cold of winter, and forbade any of his subjects to shelter or succour them. They all perished from hunger or exposure.

1166   Followers of Mazdak still survived in Samarqand, Tashkent, Ilak, and Susiana. Some Mani books were still known in Antioch in 1166-1199.

1160    Hong-mai called the Religion of Light, started by Mo-Moni the fifth Buddha, a perverse sect. The fifth Buddha refers to the Maitreya prophesied by Buudha. Manichaeans claimed Mani was this promised savior.

1160   Bema rite of Mani was celebrated at Koln, Germany.

1162   Henry, Archbishop of Reims, while on a visit to Flanders, found Cathari widely spread in that part of his ecclesiastical province. Upon his refusal of a bribe of six hundred marks, which they are said to have offered him for toleration, the heretics appealed to the pope, Alexander III, who was inclined to mercy in spite of King Louis VII's advocacy of rigorous measures.

1166 An intense condemnation of the Manichaeans was launched which condemned them for being stubborn vegetarians and condemning the meat eating of the Confusians. They were also said to conduct "vile rituals" at night and to wear white robes with black hats.

1167    Manichaeans had their own church council at Toulouse, attended by 5 French Bishops and two from Lombardy and Constantinople.

1167   At Vézelay in Burgundy seven Cathari were burned in 1167. Towards the end of the century the Count of Flanders, Phililp I, was remarkable for his severity towards them, and the Archbishop of Reims, Guillaume de Champagne (1176-1202), vigorously seconded his efforts. Confiscation, exile, and death were the penalties inflicted upon them by Hugues, Bishop of Auxerre (1183-1206).

1180 Some persecution arose against Manichaean.

1182   Canticle of the Sun. Admonitions.  Francis of Assisi (John Bernardone) (1182-1226):  Founder of the Franciscan order, which emphasized self-renunciation and poverty.

1184  Waldenses excommunicated, suppressed.

1200 CE: Zen Buddhism (Ch'an) introduced to Japan. Japan Chronology

1200   Birth of Dogen (1200-1253) who founds Soto Zen School of Japanese Buddhism

1207  Pope Innocent III had the men of north France go into southern France and destroy the Cathari there. At Bezier's capture 20,000 were massacred.  With Carcasonne's fall 400 were burned alive and 50 hanged, and so on throughout the region.

1210   Manichaean Account of Willem van Ruysbroeck

1226   Some of these crusaders stayed on at Carmel, and eventually sent a constitution to Rome for approval in 1226 A.D. It is said that the pope was going to reject it until the Virgin Mary appeared to him and instructed him to approve it. Eventually the Vatican allowed a statue of Elijah to be placed in its wall, with a plaque identifying him as the founder of the Carmelite Order. (Carmelite History)

1230 John of Lugio, or of Bergamo, introduced innovations into the traditional Cathari  system, which was defended by his father Balasinansa, or Belesmagra, the Catharist Bishop of Verona. Towards the year 1230 John became the leader of a new party composed of the younger and more independent elements of the sect.

1233 -- Founding of the Inquisition to suppress Cathari and other heresies.

1239   The execution of about one hundred and eighty Cathari at Montwimer in May, 1239, was the death-blow of Catharism in those countries. Southern France, where its adherents were known as Albigenses, was its principal stronghold in Western Europe. Thence the Cathari penetrated into the northern provinces of Spain: Catalonia, Aragon, Navarre, and Leon. Partisans existed in the peninsula about 1159. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, King Pedro II of Aragon personally led his troops to the assistance of Raymond VI of Toulouse against the Catholic Crusaders, and fell at the battle of Muret in 1213.

1244 -- Massacre of Cathari at Montsegur, France.

1244 CE   Dogen (1200 - 1253) founds the Soto Zen sect of Buddisim in Japan and will write Pure Standards as a Rule for Zen monasteries.

1248   "Jomo Menmo Pema Tsokyi was born in the Earth Male monkey year (1248 CE) and passed into the sky-dimension in 1283 CE. She was born in the magical vicinity of the cave in which both Padmasambhava & Yeshey Tzogyal once stayed.

1250   According to the Dominican inquisitor, Rainier Sacconi, himself a former adherent, there were in the middle of the thirteenth century about 4000 perfected Cathari in the world. Of these there were in Lombardy and the Marches, 500 of the Albanensian sect, about 200 Bagnolenses, 1500 Concorrezenses, and 150 French refugees; at Vicenza 100, and as many at Florence and Spoleto.

1250   End of the Manichaeanism state religion of the Kingdom of Kocho which lasted 400 years.

1252    A savage persecution took place in Italy.

1258  Mongol conquest of Baghdad...Kublai Khan's elder brother founded the Ilkhan dynasty in Iran. Despite some partiality to the Christians, he was a Iranian Buddhist.

1260   Kublai Khan's mongol hoard destroyed the Manichaean state of Toghuzghuz, but small enclaves of Manichaeans persisted in western Tibet and Khotan.

1258   The last mention of Manichaean books in China took place in 1258.

1275   Assembly of traveling mason guilds in Frankfort. Zohar, second book of the cabala, compiled by Moses de Leon in Spain.

1285   The banned book Hwa-hu-King which speaks of Mani having incarnated as both Lao-Tzu and Buddha was once again banned. A copy has come down to us from the Dun-Huang cave discovery in 1907.

1290   Book of Peregrinations in Eastern Parts speaks of Mandaeans, by Ricoldo de Montecroce.

1295  "Iranian Buddhism, introduced by the Mongol Il-khans, is swept away when the dynasty converted to Islam in 1295 AD."

1300    White Lotus Society founded in China. Inquisition begins suppression of witches and other pagan groups.

c1300-1399   New Bon (bon gsar-ma) arose since the fourteenth century, relying upon the discoveries of a different Terma system than the above. As a whole, this system is quite similar to the Nyingmapa one and here Padmasambhava is also regarded as an important figure.

1302-1364 AD  "The Tibetan Ruler Jangchup Gyaltsen revives ancient Tibetan practices.

1323   Most Cathars had been destroyed from Europe.

1329  First appearance of the Tarot in Germany.

1368   Edict in China again condemned Manichaeans and its related sects of the  White Lotus and of the Black and White Clouds, followed by one in 1374 and a final one in 1390. It accused the Manichaeans of burning incense to foreign images and icons, practicing magic, and doing unseemly things in the dark of night until dawn.

1420   Some Cathari still existed in Bosnia and Bulgaria.

1431   Death of Hafiz, Sufi poet.

1446  The Cathari, 40,000 in number, left Bosnia and passed into Herzegovina (1446). They disappeared only after the conquest of these provinces by the Turks in the second half of the fifteenth century.

1577   Teressa of Avila completes her Interior Castle which will later be canonized by the Order of O:N:E:..

1646   The sects of the  White Lotus and Black Cloud still existed.

1534   Ignatius Loyola founds the Jesuit Order.

1543   Pope Paul III issues the index of prohibited books.  First Protestants are buned at the stake by the Spanish Inquisition.

1593   Two Carmelite mystics, John of the Cross & Teresa Avila, reformed a portion of the Catholic Carmelite Order, restoring many of the former disciplines such as strict vegetarianism. This reformation became an independent Religious Order in 1593.

1597   Anonymous alchemist seeks to start Rosicrucian-like society in Europe.

1622   From 1622 to 1671 AD, some Mandai texts were sent to the Catholic Church center in Rome by monks.

1642   The Mongol Gushri Khan of Qoshot established the 4th Dalai Lama as the ruler of Tibet. Consolidation of religious and secular power.

1646  Earliest known Masonic Lodge to allow non-professional or "free" masons, in Warrington, England.

1660   Abraham Echellensis published 3 Mandai texts in Rome in 1660 AD.

1670   Carmelite Archangelus, a Christian monk,  purchased some Mandaic Texts from Mandaeans of Basrah for the first time sent such to someone in Europe Called Robert Huntington.

1692   The Salem Withcraft Trials.

1727   In 1727, when Tibet was invaded by Dzungars, a Mongolian tribe, the practice of Bon was  prohibited. Many Bon teachers were executed at this time, and the Nyingmapas were persecuted as well.

1765  Karsten Naibour visited Basrah and copied Mandai alphabet by a goldsmith. (The mysteries of the Mandaic language.)

1769  Two copies in Coptic of Books of Yeu (Bruce Codex) had  obtained near the ancient Egyptian city of Thebes in 1769.

1785   The Manichaean Pistis Sophia text also has been found in Egypt, along with many others. Two copies of the Book of Pistis-Sophia, in Coptic, had been acquired in 1785.

1813   The sect of the White Lotus stormed the Imperial palace in Peking.

1813-1899  Jamgon Kongtrul (Lodro Thaye) Rime Tradition in Tibet

1860  An anti-Manichaean book appeared n China speaking of the Manichaeans as an existing sect.

1867   Petermann wrote and published the Ginza in Mandai (Aramaic) language in 1867 AD. For publication of his Genza, Petermann used 4 copies kept in Paris library

1887 Golden Dawn founded in London by Mathers and others.

1895   After Petermann, Theodor Noldeke from Germany published the book of Mandai grammar called mandaisch grammatik in 1895 AD.

1896: Fragments of the Damascus Damascus Document in a geniza storeroom in Cairo.

1900   The 'Cave for Preserving Scriptures', was discovered by a Taoist monk at Dunhuang, China named  Wang Yuanlu in 1900. The cave contains more than 50,000 sutras, documents and paintings covering a period from the 4th to the 11th centuries. It was one of China's most significant archaeological finds. These precious relics are of great historical and scientific value. (Manichaean & Buddhist Library an Dunhuang (Tun-huang))

1902-1904   Original Manichaean documents from Turfan were again published and made available to the world.

1904    Euting published some copies of Qulasta and Diwan Abathur(1904, Estrasbourg). Euting's translation was more fluent than other translations of the 17th century in Vatican. Euting had much proficiency in Aramic language.

1905   Mark Lidzbarski edited some how the Petermann's translation. He presented a new translation based on the 4 copies of Ginza kept in Paris in 1905 AD.

1906-1919   Much of the Hand-copied ancient books, manuscripts, literary works, Buddhist and secular decorative art works, and ancient manuscripts were removed from the Dunhuang grottoes by Aurel Stein, Paul Pelliot, Sergei Feodorovich Oldenburg and other archaeologists.  Discoveries of the texts from Dunhuang caves in western China, including some Manichaean. (see 1005 date)

1910  Fragments of the Damascus Document published.

1910-1912   Chinese troops occupy Tibet, shoot at unarmed crowds on entering Lhasa.

1915   Lidzbarski published Yahya's book in 1915 AD. The Lidzbarski's next book was published in 1920.

1933   3500 pages of Manichaean material, which would eventually be canonized by the Order of Nazorean Essenes,  were recovered from Egypt.

1934   The Manichaean text Homilies published from the Chester Beatty Collection and  include more than 1040 pages discovered in Medinet Madi Egypt, more or less well preserved. Although existant from the 1930's, by 1986 only 330 pages have been published.

1938   The Manichaean text Psalm-Book II published from the Chester Beatty Collection.

1945  On the west bank of the Nile, in Upper Egypt, on or near the site of the ancient town of Chenoboskion were found the Naj' Hammadi (Nag Hammadi) papyri, a collection of 13 codices of Gnostic and Manichaean Texts which would eventually be canonized by the Order of Nazorean Essenes.

1950   Red China invades Tibet; Tibetan army destroyed in battle at Chamdo and Vajrayana begins to spread.

1955   Yesai Nasrai, founder of the Order of Nazorean Essenes,  is born in San Antonio Texas on Sept 6, 10am.

1958   Secret Gospel of Mark (from Clement of Alexandria). This letter was found by Morton Smith in the Mar Saba monastery, southeast of Jerusalem.

1981   On January 25, 1981 Sons Ahman Israel, an attempted revival of the Elect level of the Ancient Manichaeans,  was officially restored. (see: Article on Order of ONE in the Encyclopaedia of American Religions - entry 1172)

c1987   Order of Nazorean Essenes founds small monastic center in northern Arizona and begins giving temporary Vows and begins collecting and collating ancient Gnostic, Mandaic and Manichaean  texts and teachings. Extensive attacks and slander campaigns from non-gnostic Christians begin.

c1992   Order of Nazorean Essenes ceasing giving temporary Vows and dissolves monastic Order. Former members allowed to remain on land for several years.

c1999   Order of Nazorean Essenes goes online with an extensive website and soon creates the Manichaean Orthodox Church as a sub order and Listener level of the Order of O:N:E:.

2000   Order of Nazorean Essenes begins translation of the Ginza Chapters, the ancient Aramaic Bible of the Nazoreans, and continues to refine, coordinate and comment on Naziruthian doctrines, making them more available on the www.

2001   Order of Nazorean Essenes completes translation of the ancient Aramaic Doctrine of Kings containing long lost sayings of Yohonna(Book of John the Baptist), Yeshu, Miryai and other Nazorean prophetic ones and begins its online Catechism courses teaching ancient Nazorean, Gnostic and Manichaean doctrines. Listener level Rituals published online.

2003   Order of Nazorean Essenes begins relocation from northern Arizona to northern California  to attempt to create there a new Mt. Carmel Monastic foundation and physical manifestation of Nazirutha ("Holy Order of Yeshu & Miryai" - developing spiritual community and retreat center).

2007   Order of Nazorean Essenes acquires new land for a spiritual community in rural northern California.