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Romanization. Sovetsko–kitayskiy raskol. The Sino-Soviet split was the gradual worsening of relations between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) during the Cold War. This was primarily caused by doctrinal divergences that arose from their different interpretations and practical applications ...
Line drawing copy of two frescoes from cave 38B at Bezeklik Grottoes. Manichaeism ( / ˌmænɪˈkiːɪzəm /; [ 4] in New Persian آیینِ مانی Āyīn-e Mānī; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Móníjiào) is a former major world religion, [ 5] founded in the 3rd century CE by the Parthian [ 6] prophet Mani (216–274 CE), in the Sasanian Empire.
Schism. A schism ( / ˈsɪzəm / SIZ-əm, / ˈskɪzəm /, SKIZ-əm or, less commonly, / ˈʃɪzəm / SHIZ-əm) [ 1] is a division between people, usually belonging to an organization, movement, or religious denomination. The word is most frequently applied to a split in what had previously been a single religious body, such as the Great East ...
Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. The Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, officially the Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace (1851–1864), was a theocratic monarchy which sought to overthrow the Qing dynasty. The Heavenly Kingdom, or Heavenly Dynasty, [ 1][ a] was led by Hong Xiuquan. Its capital was at Tianjing, present-day Nanjing.
t. e. The Dorje Shugden controversy is a controversy over Dorje Shugden, also known as Dolgyal, whom some consider to be one of several protectors of the Gelug school, the school of Tibetan Buddhism to which the Dalai Lamas belong. Dorje Shugden has become the symbolic focal point [ 1][ web 1] of a conflict over the "purity" [ 2] of the Gelug ...
t. e. The Assyrian Church of the East[ a] ( ACOE ), sometimes called the Church of the East[ 5][ 6] and officially known as the Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East ( HACACE ), [ 5][ 7][ b] is an Eastern Christian church that follows the traditional Christology and ecclesiology of the historical Church of the East. [ 9]
Modern ecumenic relations. v. t. e. The East–West Schism, also known as the Great Schism or the Schism of 1054, is the break of communion between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches since 1054. [ 1] A series of ecclesiastical differences and theological disputes between the Greek East and Latin West preceded the formal split that ...
Iconoclasm. Icon of the Triumph of Orthodoxy depicting the "Triumph of Orthodoxy" over iconoclasm under the Byzantine empress Theodora and her son Michael III, late 14th to early 15th century. Iconoclasm (from Greek: εἰκών, eikṓn, 'figure, icon' + κλάω, kláō, 'to break') [ i] is the social belief in the importance of the ...