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Seven Decades of Oirat Studies in China: 1949–2019
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. Historically, the Oirats of China mainly live in the territory of Xinjiang, in the provinces of Qinghai, Gansu, and in the Western part of Inner Mongolia. Some of the Olets (descendants of Dzungars) live in the steppe part of the Emin Gol
Alatengaoqier, Baazr A. Bicheev
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Revisiting G. S. Lytkin’s Catalogue of Manuscripts Used by Faithful Oirats
Монголоведение, 2023 Introduction. Oirat-language (Clear Script) sources have been cataloguized by A. G. Sazykin, V. L. Uspensky, N. S. Yakhontova, K. V. Orlova, D. N. Muzraeva, and others. The Mongolian Collection of the Gorky Scientific Library at St. Petersburg University
Aisa O. Doleeva
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Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2023 The history of Russian Mongolian studies occupies an important place in modern World Mongolian studies. The history of Russian Mongolian studies is associated with the names of famous scientists (N.Ya. Bichurin, O.M. Kovalevsky, D.
D. Urnokhdelger
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The Buddhist factor in Oirat legislation
RUDN Journal of World History, 2020 The legislative acts, adopted by the Oirad in the middle of the XVII - the middle of the XVIII centuries, proceeded from the real external and internal political situation, depended on the influence of religious and social conditions. Laws of 1640 should be recognized as the most universally recognized and authoritative ones, since they were supposed ...
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Petr Darvaev, About the origin of Derben (dorvn) Oirat
, 2020 Petr says that the name Derben Oirat derives from the phrase ‘four close tribes’ that lived in the Altai region. Each of the tribes had their own totemic animal, including the crow, the swan, the wolf and the deer.
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Spear Fighting in the Military Art of the Kalmyks and Dzungars of the XVII – early XIX centuries
Монголоведение, 2023 Introduction. The article examines the features of the formation and evolution of the Oirat light cavalry armed with spears of the Late Middle Ages and early Modern times. The purpose of the study is to identify the role of spear fighting in the military
Bobrov Leonid A.
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Sūtra of Eight Luminous of Heaven and Earth as a Source on Tibetan Pantheon
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. A Tibetan version of the apocryphal Sūtra of Eight Luminous of Heaven and Earth to have been included in Gzungs-′dus and Mdo-mangs collections of minor non-canonical texts is a ritual text containing lists of various supernatural beings of ...
Saglara V. Mirzaeva
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Myths and tales about the animals of the Oirats of Xinjiang
Филология: научные исследования, 2023 The subject of the study is the fabulous folklore of the Oirats of Xinjiang. The object of the study is the specificity of mythological and fairy-tale texts about animals. It should be noted that the fabulous folklore of the Oirats still remains little known to domestic researchers, despite the fact that attempts to study it began in the middle of ...
Tamara Mikhailovna Sadalova +1 more
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Russian-Oirat Relations in 1607–1608
Bulletin of the Kalmyk Institute for Humanities of the Russian Academy of Sciences, 2015 The article deals with the initial period in the history of Russian-Oirat relations in South-Western Siberia, which still remains poorly explored in the historiography due to the lack of sources. The author made a conclusion, that the fact of the Oirats’ presence on the Siberian border of Muscovy was caused by taishas’ desire to preserve their ...
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Noyon Galdama in Written and Oral Traditions of Mongolic Peoples
Oriental Studies, 2022 Introduction. Oirat old-script texts tell us about the prominent historical figure of Noyon Galdma (Kalm., Oir. Һалдма, Һалдмба; Mong. Галдамаа, Галдамбаа), son of Khan Ochirtu-Tsetsen, grandson of Khan Baibagas of the Khoshuts and Khong Tayiji Erdeni ...
Elza P. Bakaeva
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