In the modern days, there are many religions mixing together forming into different cultures. However, traced back to the Silk Road period, these religions have been appeared. Now, let us have a deep research.

Mysterious Manichaeism along Silk Road

Just hearing this name, most of tourists are not familiar with it. Derived from the dualistic teachings of the Persian prophet mani, who postulated the existence of two natures, lightness and dark, Manichaeism decrees that the universe is the temporary result of an attack from the realm of darkness on the realm of light. Mani proclaimed himself the last in a line of prophets that included Manichaeism, which became the state religion of the Uighur Empire for the following century. The last organize Manichaean communities seem to have died out in southern China in the 16th century. The sacred texts of Manichaeism were originally composed in Syriac Aramaic, but as they spread west were translated into Greek, Coptic and Latin. To the east their history serves well to illustrate the multicultural nature of Silk Road society, as they passed through Iranian, Parthian, Sogdian, Uighur and Chinese translations.

Glorious Buddhism along Silk Road

Buddhism is very familiar for the modern tourists. It developed from the teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the future Lord Buddha, who was born around 563 BC, A PRINCE OF THE Shakya clan in the Kapilavastu Kingdom on the Indo-Nepal border lands. Although raised amid the comforts of the royal court, Siddhartha was deeply troubled by the misery and poverty he encountered beyond the palace gates, and embarked on a long quest to identify the cause of suffering. Eventually, at the age of 35, he discovered the Middle Way, a path of moderation that lies between indulgence and mortification, and results in enlightenment. The philosophy that he taught gradually spread across northern India and under the Buddhist emperor Asoka, beyond to Sri Lanka, Burma and Bactria. From Bactria it gradually spread along the Silk Road west to the shores of the Black Sea and Mediterranean, and east to the Tarim Basin and China. Buddhism reached China around the 1st century AD, but extensive contacts date from the 2nd century, with the establishment of the Buddhist Kushan Empire. The earliest Buddhist missionaries to follow the Silk Road to China were Parthian, Sogdian and later Kuquan.

With the development of the society, they got certain spread and public recognize. They are rented as the most holy religion in the public.