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Chinggis Khan in the Identity Practices of Modern Buryats
Inner Asia, 2006AbstractIn the identity discourse of Post Soviet Buryatia the modelling of ethnic boundaries has priority, and the ethnic marker ‘Buryat’ is increasingly replaced by the wider marker ‘Buryat- Mongol.’ In this way a revitalised historical memory allows the synonymising of ethnicity and political identity.
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Attempts to Buddhicise the Cult of Chinggis Khan
Inner Asia, 1999AbstractBuddhism and the cult of Chinggis Khan are part of the Mongolian cultural and religious heritage. Through extensive textual and historical analysis, N. Hurcha argues that the cult of Chinggis Khan instituted in the thirteenth century has survived repeated attempts of Buddhist monks to incorporate it into the Buddhist ritual and cosmology.
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Incense Offering to the Lord Chinggis Khan
2020Abstract This chapter translates two liturgies representative of one of the great transmutations of Inner Asian history: Chinggis Khan’s transition from brilliant conqueror to wrathful manifestation of a Buddha. As wrathful Buddha, Chinggis Khan acts as a hybrid protector—at once a Cakravartin Wheel-Turning King, a pious Buddhist laymen,
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Chinggis Khan and the Idea of World Domination
Vostok. Afro-aziatskie obshchestva: istoriia i sovremennostThe article proposes a solution to the question of Temujin/ Chinggis Khan’s plans for world domination. Based on reports of a number of medieval sources, the author comes to the conclusion that his military campaigns pursued specific goals mostly to take revenge on numerous enemies and were not a part of a common aggressive plan.
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Mongolia at 800: The State and Nation Since Chinggis Khan
Inner Asia, 2006AbstractAs we are commemorating the 800th anniversary of Temüjin’s ascent to power, we are being told that that event marked the birth of the Mongolian state, the Yeke Monggol Ulus. There can, of course, be no question that this event happened and that it marked, like the Otrar Incident a dozen years later,2 a major qualitative change in the history of
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