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RUDN Journal of World History, 2020 The period starting from the second half of the XIV century. and up to the middle of the 15th century, had held under the sign of the fall of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty in China, and it was the most important one in the history of the Eastern Mongols and ...
Baatr Uchaevich Kitinov
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Reforms of the Modern Oirat-Kalmyk Language and Literature in the 20th century
Монголоведение, 2020 Introduction. The Oirats are Western Mongols, today living between the Altai mountains, the river Volga, the Kukunor Area, the Ili River and Kyrgyzstan.
Johannes Reckel
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Монголоведение, 2020 Introduction. Oirat folklore traditions include typologically different tales that remain vastly understudied. Folklore materials of Xinjiang Oirats used to be printed in Clear Script type up to the late 1980s, but currently those are primarily ...
Danara V. Ubushieva, Danbuerjiafu
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Kalmak and oirats: toponym in the religious history of the peoples of Central Asia
RUDN Journal of World History, 2018 The word Kalmak is spread in a number of medieval Muslim sources. In research of the scholars this word is understood as an indicator of development or separatism (piece, backward), or religious orientation (not Muslims) for Oirats or some kind of ...
Baatr Uchaevich Kitinov
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Oriental 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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Tradition and Symbolism of Sheep Scapula Divination: a Case Study of Bayangol Mongols from Xinjiang
Монголоведение, 2020 Introduction. In the cultural tradition of Mongolic peoples, there is a rite of sacralizing certain parts of animal bones, and related ritual actions and prohibitions.
Gongmujafu Gombojav
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The Oirat epic cycle of Jangar
, 2021 We call Jangar an epic cycle because it is composed of many cantos with close mutual connections. The story as a whole concerns the khan Jangar and his twelve warriors' heroic deeds: how they build up the khan's palace, how they defeat threatening invaders, how they conquer others' territories, and how they woo and marry beautiful maidens according to ...
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RUDN Journal of World History, 2017 The article examines the problem, which so far had not been studied by the historical science - the fate of the Elet Oirats, who, according the Oirat and Kalmyk sources, suddenly had departured “to the west”.
B U Kitinov
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Oriental Studies, 2023 Introduction. The paper develops the idea of a hypothesized ethnogenetic succession of the Chonos and related groups from the legendary Bӧrtä-Čïno within the ‘Mongol’ Y-chromosomal subclade of R2a-M124 among Kalmyks (Oirats and Mongols at large ...
Dzhagrunov Sanal V.
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Ganapati Dharani Sutra: Oirat Texts
Монголоведение, 2023 Introduction. The tradition of worshiping Ganapati in Buddhism, including in religious traditions of Mongols, is an interesting — though understudied — issue. In Hinduism, this ancient deity was believed an evil demon (Vinayaka) inclined to create obstacles.
Baazr A. Bicheev, Gerelmaa Guruuchin
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