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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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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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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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Gennadiy Korneev, About pre-Buddhist beliefs among Oirats
, 2020 Gennadiy says that in the past various Mongol groups, including the Oirats, adhered to many religions including Tengrianism, shamanism, Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Manichaeism, Christianity, and Islam.
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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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Law in the Golden Horde and oirat states of the middle ages. Part 1
Nomadic Civilization: Historical Research, 2022 The article discusses the most important sources of Mongolian and Oirat-Kalmyk medieval law – the Great Yasa of Genghis Khan and Iki Tsaajin Bichik of 1640, which played a significant role in the formation and development of the legal system of nomadic ...
E. N. Badmaeva +2 more
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Mergen Ulanov, The Role of the Oirats in Spreading Gelug Buddhism
, 2019 Mergen says that of all schools of Buddhism, Gelug was the most open to the masses. Whilst other schools, which were more closed, did not send out missionaries, Gelug pursued this line of activity.
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History of the Oirats in the 15th - 16th century [PDF]
, 2011 The Bachelor work History of the Oirats in the 15th - 16th century introduces the issue of history of Mongolian-speaking groups. Work focuses particularly on the West Mongolian tribes of the Oirats. The ethno "Orates" was a general name of several groups
Dordzhieva, Yulia
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‘Kalmyk Shapka Bolshaya’: An Oirat Helmet from the Moscow Kremlin Museums Collection
Oriental Studies, 2020 Introduction. The article explores a helmet of the last quarter of the 17th century stored in the Moscow Kremlin Museums collection and mentioned in the Armory Chamber’s documents as ‘Kalmyk shapka bolshaya’ (Russ.
Leonid A. Bobrov, Sergei P. Orlenko
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Монголоведение, 2021 Introduction. The sacred nature of power is one of the main features of the empire. Since ancient times in the Chinese state the sacralization of power is presented in the religious-philosophical doctrine of the Emperor as the Son of Heaven who rules the
Natalia V. Kuznetsova
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