Mani's Parents is a color painting on silk drawn in the coastal areas of southern China during the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties.

Morita's research results were published in "Piecing a Picture Together: A New Manichaean Perspective on a Chinese Religious Painting in the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco",[2] a view which was also adopted by the religious art historian Zsuzsanna Gulácsi in her work "Mani's Pictures".

The drawing technique and artistic style are the same as those in "The Legend of the Holy One", "The Birth of Mani" and the "Manichae Universe".

The first half of this entry states that Man-yin's strict observance of the precepts of fasting and purification enabled her to conceive the saint Mani, which is the message the painting is supposed to convey.

In addition, the painting lacks the important element of the white elephant entering the dream of the Māyāvādīs, which is usually depicted in the birth of the Buddha, indicating that it is not a Buddhist painting..[3] Eight silk hanging scrolls with Manichaean didactic images from southern China from between the 12th and the 15th centuries.