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The sources I've read say that Manicheism was a syncretism of Christianity, Zoroastrianism and Buddhism[0], rather than Buddhism being derived from it. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buddha_in_Manichaeism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Buddha_in_Manichaeism