A History Of Mongolian Shamanism

Author : Dalai Chuluunii,Erdene-Otgon Dalai
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 77 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789811694608

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A History of Mongolian Shamanism by Dalai Chuluunii,Erdene-Otgon Dalai Pdf

This book discusses the evolution of Mongolian shamanism from the distant past to the collapse of great empires such as the Yuan Dynasty in the fourteenth century, drawing on archeological findings and historical resources like the Mongolian Secret History. Further, it introduces readers to the cultural and ideological differences between Mongolian shamanists, who believe in the Eternal Blue Sky, and modern Mongols, who follow Buddhist teachings. In closing, the authors put forward the idea that Mongolian shamanism could have helped build great empires, emphasizing, e.g., shamanism’s influence on Mongolian culture and literature in the Middle Ages.

Author : Otgony Purev,Gurbadaryn Pu̇rvėė
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Mongols
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121880343

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Mongolian Shamanism by Otgony Purev,Gurbadaryn Pu̇rvėė Pdf

Mongolian shamanism.

Author : Sarangerel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594775383

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Riding Windhorses by Sarangerel Pdf

The first book written about Mongolian and Siberian shamanism by a shaman trained in that tradition. • A thorough introduction to Mongolian and Siberian shamanic beliefs and practices, which, until the collapse of the Soviet Union, were banned from being practiced. • Includes rituals for healing and divination techniques. In traditional Mongolian-Buryat culture, shamans play an important role maintaining the tegsh, the "balance" of the community. They counsel a path of moderation in one's actions and reverence for the natural world, which they view as mother to humanity. Mongolians believe that if natural resources are taken without thanking the spirits for what they have given, those resources will not be replaced. Unlike many other cultures whose shamanic traditions were undermined by modern civilization, shamans in the remote areas of southern Siberia and Mongolia are still the guardians of the environment, the community, and the natural order. Riding Windhorses is the first book written on Mongolian and Siberian shamanism by a shaman trained in that tradition. A thorough introduction to Mongolian/Siberian shamanic beliefs and practices, it includes working knowledge of the basic rituals and various healing and divination techniques. Many of the rituals and beliefs described here have never been published and are the direct teachings of the author's own shaman mentors.

Author : Manduhai Buyandelger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226013091

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Tragic Spirits by Manduhai Buyandelger Pdf

A “highly readable ethnographic study” of the resurgence of shamanism among nomadic Mongolians in a time of radical political and economic change (The Journal of Asian Studies). Winner, Francis Hsu Book Prize from the Society for East Asian Anthropology Shortlisted, ICAS (International Convention of Asia Scholars) Book Prize The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where Tragic Spirits takes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it—the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression. Attributing their current misfortunes to returning ancestral spirits who are vengeful over being abandoned under socialism, the Buryats are now at once trying to appease their ancestors and recover the history of their people through shamanic practice. Thoroughly documenting this process, Buyandelger situates it as part of a global phenomenon, comparing the rise of shamanism in liberalized Mongolia to its similar rise in Africa and Indonesia. In doing so, she offers a sophisticated analysis of the way economics, politics, gender, and other factors influence the spirit world and the crucial workings of cultural memory. “An excellent addition to studies in the area . . . emotive, accessible and well-researched.” —London School of Economics Review of Books

Author : Shaman Byampadorj Dondog
Publisher : Vajra Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Shamanism
ISBN : 9937623294

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Reflections of a Mongolian Shaman by Shaman Byampadorj Dondog Pdf

Shaman Byampadorj's wonderful book personal reflections, shaman poems, and advice. He is of the greatest living shamans Mongolia today, and has made major contribution the revival and preservation ancient tradition, legacy that was strongly oppressed by the Communists during long period of Soviet domination. In one Byampadorj's reminiscences this book he mentions how his mother passed in early 1990, just after Communism fell and regained religious freedom. He mentions how his mother so delighted see a new temple being re-consecrated, and spiritual practitioners once again being allowed to engage in their religious practices without fear reprisals. Byampadorj concludes account stating that his mother passed away quietly and peacefully day, reciting her mantras as she slipped to the side. Byampadorj does not dwell on the years of oppression; rather simply alludes them statements like this made in passing. many great Mongols, he prefers to focus on happier thoughts. Shaman Byampadorj's book has seen half dozen editions in Mongolia, and in each edition had new songs and poems added, well some older ones dropped out. have mainly chosen materials from the third and fourth editions.

Author : Otgony Pu̇rėv (Khar Darkhad.),Gurbadaryn Purvee,Elaine Cheng,Pea Desantis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Mongols
ISBN : OCLC:156985554

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Mongolian Shamanism by Otgony Pu̇rėv (Khar Darkhad.),Gurbadaryn Purvee,Elaine Cheng,Pea Desantis Pdf

Author : Elisabetta Chiodo
Publisher : Brill Schoningh
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 3506760521

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Qorčin Mongol Shamans and Their Songs by Elisabetta Chiodo Pdf

Author : Judith Hangartner
Publisher : Global Oriental
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004212749

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The Constitution and Contestation of Darhad Shamans' Power in Contemporary Mongolia by Judith Hangartner Pdf

This book offers an in-depth insight into post-socialist rural shamans in Mongolia thereby making a rare but important contribution to the ethnography of both Inner Asia and Southern Siberia. It examines the social making of shamans, in particular those of the Shishget depression of the northernmost borders of Mongolia.

Author : Kevin Turner
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-12
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781583949986

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Sky Shamans of Mongolia by Kevin Turner Pdf

Part travelogue, part experiential spiritual memoir, Kevin Turner takes us to visit with authentic shamans in the steppes and urban centers of modern-day Mongolia. Along the way, the author, a practicing shaman himself, tells of spontaneous medical diagnoses, all-night shamanic ceremonies, and miraculous healings, all welling from a rich culture in which divination, soul-retrieval, and spirit depossession are a part of everyday life. Shamanism, described in the 1950s by Mircea Eliade as "archaic techniques of ecstasy," is alive and well in Mongolia as a means of accessing "nonordinary realities" and the spirit world. After centuries of suppression by Buddhist and then Communist political powers, it is exploding in popularity in Mongolia. Turner gives compelling accounts of healings and rituals he witnesses among Darkhad, Buryat, and Khalkh shamans, and goes on to provide us with his insights into a universal shamanism, principles that lie at the heart of shamanic traditions worldwide. This astounding, inspiring book will appeal to shamans and shamanic therapists, students of Mongolian culture and comparative religion, and fans of off-grid travel memoirs. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Author : Caroline Humphrey,Urgunge Onon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Dagur (Chinese people)
ISBN : UOM:39076001851802

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Shamans and Elders by Caroline Humphrey,Urgunge Onon Pdf

This work is a ground breaking study of Mongolian shamanism and society, past and present. Lavishly illustrated and containing a wealth of new information, it presents a fresh understanding of the widespread phenomenon of shamanism. It looks at gender and ritual, female shamans and goddess worship, death and funeral rituals, the importance of old men and ancestors, and Daur notions of landscape within their direct experience and beyond.

Author : Sarangerel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781594775444

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Chosen by the Spirits by Sarangerel Pdf

• Mongolian shamaness Sarangerel provides a hands-on guide for serious students of the shamanic path. • Includes complete directions for traditional Siberian rituals, meditations, and divination techniques never before published. • Shows how to recognize and acknowledge a call from the spirits. • Offers traditional wisdom for nurturing a working relationship with personal spirit helpers to promote healing and balance in a community. The shaman's purpose is to heal and restore balance to his or her community by developing a working relationship with the spirit world. Mongolian shamanic tradition maintains that all true shamans are called by the spirits--but those who are not from shamanic cultures may have difficulty recognizing the call or nurturing the essential shamanic relationship with their helper spirits. Buryat shamaness Sarangerel has written Chosen by the Spirits as a guide for both the beginning shaman and the advanced practitioner. Although raised in the United States, she was drawn to the shamanic tradition, and in 1991 returned to her ancestral homeland in the Tunken region of southern Siberia to study with traditional Buryat shamans. Her first book, Riding Windhorses, provided an introduction to the shamanic world of Siberia. Chosen by the Spirits delves more deeply into the personal relationship between the shamanic student and his or her "spirit family." Sarangerel recounts her own journey into shamanic practice and provides the serious student with practical advice and hands-on techniques for recognizing and acknowledging a shamanic calling, welcoming and embodying the spirits, journeying to the spirit world, and healing both people and places.

Author : Morten Axel Pedersen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801460937

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Not Quite Shamans by Morten Axel Pedersen Pdf

The forms of contemporary society and politics are often understood to be diametrically opposed to any expression of the supernatural; what happens when those forms are themselves regarded as manifestations of spirits and other occult phenomena? In Not Quite Shamans, Morten Axel Pedersen explores how the Darhad people of Northern Mongolia's remote Shishged Valley have understood and responded to the disruptive transition to postsocialism by engaging with shamanic beliefs and practices associated with the past.For much of the twentieth century, Mongolia's communist rulers attempted to eradicate shamanism and the shamans who once served as spiritual guides and community leaders. With the transition from a collectivized economy and a one-party state to a global capitalist market and liberal democracy in the 1990s, the people of the Shishged were plunged into a new and harsh world that seemed beyond their control. "Not-quite-shamans"—young, unemployed men whose undirected energies erupted in unpredictable, frightening bouts of violence and drunkenness that seemed occult in their excess— became a serious threat to the fabric of community life. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in Northern Mongolia, Pedersen details how, for many Darhads, the postsocialist state itself has become shamanic in nature.In the ideal version of traditional Darhad shamanism, shamans can control when and for what purpose their souls travel, whether to other bodies, landscapes, or worlds. Conversely, caught between uncontrollable spiritual powers and an excessive display of physical force, the "not-quite-shamans" embody the chaotic forms—the free market, neoliberal reform, and government corruption—that have created such upheaval in peoples' lives. As an experimental ethnography of recent political and economic transformations in Mongolia through the defamiliarizing prism of shamans and their lack, Not Quite Shamans is an attempt to write about as well as theorize postsocialism, and shamanism, in a new way.

Author : Manduhai Buyandelger
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226086552

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Tragic Spirits by Manduhai Buyandelger Pdf

The collapse of socialism at the end of the twentieth century brought devastating changes to Mongolia. Economic shock therapy—an immediate liberalization of trade and privatization of publicly owned assets—quickly led to impoverishment, especially in rural parts of the country, where Tragic Spirits takes place. Following the travels of the nomadic Buryats, Manduhai Buyandelger tells a story not only of economic devastation but also a remarkable Buryat response to it—the revival of shamanic practices after decades of socialist suppression. Attributing their current misfortunes to returning ancestral spirits who are vengeful over being abandoned under socialism, the Buryats are now at once trying to appease their ancestors and recover the history of their people through shamanic practice. Thoroughly documenting this process, Buyandelger situates it as part of a global phenomenon, comparing the rise of shamanism in liberalized Mongolia to its similar rise in Africa and Indonesia. In doing so, she offers a sophisticated analysis of the way economics, politics, gender, and other factors influence the spirit world and the crucial workings of cultural memory.

Author : Katherine Swancutt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780857454829

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Fortune and the Cursed by Katherine Swancutt Pdf

Innovation-making is a classic theme in anthropology that reveals how people fine-tune their ontologies, live in the world and conceive of it as they do. This ethnographic study is an entrance into the world of Buryat Mongol divination, where a group of cursed shamans undertake the 'race against time' to produce innovative remedies that will improve their fallen fortunes at an unconventional pace. Drawing on parallels between social anthropology and chaos theory, the author gives an in-depth account of how Buryat shamans and their notion of fortune operate as 'strange attractors' who propagate the ongoing process of innovation-making. With its view into this long-term 'cursing war' between two shamanic factions in a rural Mongolian district, and the comparative findings on cursing in rural China, this book is a needed resource for anyone with an interest in the anthropology of religion, shamanism, witchcraft and genealogical change. Katherine Swancutt is a Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford. She has carried out fieldwork on shamanic religion across Inner Asia, working among Buryats in northeast Mongolia and China since 1999, and among the Nuosu of Southwest China since 2007.

Author : Neil S. Price
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Ethnoarchaeology
ISBN : 0415252555

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The Archaeology of Shamanism by Neil S. Price Pdf

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