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'I Have My Own Spaceship'

open access: yes, 2018
This paper is about folk healers in Kalmykia, southwest Russia, locally referred to as medlegchi, and their eclectic healing methods that combine elements of the earlier religions of Buddhism, shamanism and folk beliefs with modern theologies, ideas and ...
Terbish, B
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The People of the Oirot Khan [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
departmental bulletin ...
6684, Tyukhteneva, S. P.
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SES no.86; Preface [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
othe
1000030188750   +11 more
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Ethnic Identities of Oirats and Kalmyks in the Tibetan Religious Tradition: Mitsangs of Drepung Gomang Monastery

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2020
Introduction. Contemporary Kalmyk studies are characterized by that there are still a number of insufficiently explored issues dealing with the shaping of the Kalmyk ethnos, including that of identities of their ancestors within materials related to ...
Elza P. Bakaeva
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Historiography of Modern Kazakhstan: Revisiting Some Studies in the History of the Dzungar Khanate [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Insight into relations between the Dzungar and Kazakh Khanates in the 17th - mid-18th centuries shows the important and essential historical role performed by the Oirats in Central Asia during the period under consideration.
E. N. Badmaeva
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Czarist Missionary Contact with Central Asia: Models of Contextualization?

open access: yes, 2007
Although the Western church knows little of these ventures, Russian Orthodoxy in fact has a rich missionary heritage. There have been instances of great courage, passion, and cultural sensitivity in Orthodox attempts to bring the Gospel to the Muslim ...
Johnstone, David M.
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The Evolution and Transformation of the Ethno-Geological Systems of the Trans-Ural Forest-Steppe into Civilized Chronotopes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The article discusses the results of a post-dissertation doctoral study on the thousandyear evolution of the ethno-geological systems of Trans-Urals forest-steppe based on the ethno-system analysis method of territorial development and the structural ...
Zavyalova, O G
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Ph. D. of History, Head of Ethnology sector of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences

open access: yesOriental Studies, 2018
This article deals with the problems of the origin of Tsokhurovski ulus of the Kalmyk khanate, its history in the 18th century, as well as the problems of the formation of ethnic groups in a nomadic state.
Valery Batyrov
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Kalmyk-Tibetan Relations at the Turn of the 17th and 18th Centuries [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
The article deals with an episode in the history of Tibetan-Kalmyk relations at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries. Galdan  Boshugtu Khan’s death and the 6th Dalai Lama’s formal assumption of political power in Tibet in 1697, arrival of Arabjur’s ...
V. P. Sanchirov, V. T. Tepkeev
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