Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Contents VII
4. Material Culture: Shagreen in the Bābur-nāma 1
5. Polysemy of the Word “Täŋri” 19
6. Return of State-Supported Buddhist Rituals to Modern Mongolia 29
7. Disasters — Acts of Heaven? Records of Disasters in the Draft History of Qing 39
8. Totemism of the peoples of Altai origin 59
9. From the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration system to the Mongolian and the Manchu ali-gali script 65
10. Moghul Tribal Traditions in Mirza Haydar Dughlat’s Tarikh-i Rashidi 75
11. Two Primary Accounts on the Sino-Mongolian Negotiation (1449–1450) 93
12. On the Buddhist Feature of the Uighur Pintung Documents 101
13. An Old Uyghur text fragment related to the Tocharian B “History of Kuchean kings” 111
14. Shamanism in the Secret History and the Kojiki 125
15. Tibetan Buddhism and Nomadic Mongolian Regimes 143
16. Old Turkic runic inscriptions in the Altai Mountains and their reflection of traditional beliefs and religion of the ancient Turkic population: the case of the inscription Kuttuu-I 153
17. State and Church in Mongolia, a multidimensional relationship 161
18. Роль мечетей Кыргызстана в религиозном воспитании молодежи 171
19. Tengrism in the life of Turkic peoples 177
20. “Meskhetian Turks”: an analysis of their ethnic self-identification and religion based on a sociolinguistic survey in 2013–2018 183
21. Polyglot Names of Imperial Horses and Dogs 199
22. A New Analysis of the Kalbak Taš XV (A-33) Inscription 223