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The Mongols Name: Mongols, Mongolians, Tartars Population: 207,000 Localization: The Mongols have an independent country, Mongolia, but most of them live in China, where they are a minority. They live mainly in: Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and some prefectures of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region and Qinghai Province. In Russia, in the Buryat Republic. |
The Mongolian people living in Xinjiang were formerly known as Oirat or Ojila. Their population is near 170.000 people. They are divided in three main tribes: The Zhungar tribe has been living in Xinjiang many centuries, the Turgut, that come back from the Volga River at the end of 18th century, and the Chahar tribe who moved from Inner Mongolia and Hebei province.
Introductory
Articles
A synopsis of Ran Ping's biography of Genghis Khan
Legend of Mongolia (蒙古往事) is a fictionalized biography of Genghis Khan, the leader who united the fiercely independent tribes known today as the Mongols, thanks to his iron resolve, military savvy, shrewd alliances, and willingness to shed blood.
Phags-pa Script: Tibetan Links to Kublai Khan’s Unified Script for his Empire
Kublai Khan commissioned the creation of a unified script for the vast Mongolian-controlled, multilingual Empire of the Great Khan (1271-1368), known in China as the Yuan Dynasty. To do the Khan’s bidding, Tibetan Lama Drogön Chögyal Phagpa extended his native Tibetan script to encompass the sounds of the empire’s disparate languages such as Turkic, Mongol, Chinese and Tibetan.
Scholars Researches available in the Web
C.R. Bawden.- The supernatural element in sickness and death according to Mongol tradition
Folk medicine and formal medicine have long existed side by side in Mongolia, where the introduction of sophisticated science and culture was not followed by the immediate disappearance of popular native beliefs.
Chao Gejin.- Mongolian Oral Epic Poetry: An Overview. Oral Tradition, 12/2 (1997): 322-336
Mongolian tuuli, or epic poetry, the most important genre in Mongolian literary history, is a vast tradition of orally composed works...tuuli relates these nomadic peoples’ glorious past: their ideal heroes—the bravest hunters and herdsmen—and their ideal world.
Yang Enhong.- A Comparative Study of the Singing Styles of Mongolian and Tibetan Geser/Gesar Artists. Oral Tradition, 13/2 (1998)
The epic King Geser has been in wide circulation in Chinese Inner Mongolian and Tibetan areas thanks to its continuous singing by generations of local artists. Because artists have brought their individual cultural contexts into it, the epic exhibits distinctive ethnic qualities in different places.
Fedotoff, Alexander.- Motif of Miraculous Birth in Mongolian and Korean Myths and epic.
Among a great variety of motifs which construct main mythic and epical characters I have chosen a motif of miraculous birth. This motifis connected with the idea of a special predestination, which is inherent to mythic narrative works, as well as to heroic epic and historical legends.
The subject of this paper are the changes in property rights systems in livestock and pastures in Western Mongolia in the post-socialist period. The aim is not to point at the contradiction of private herd ownership and communal grazing, or the superiority of private property rights.
Walther
Heissig.- New
Material on East Mongolian Shamanism
In the past fifty years some interest has been manifested
in the existence of a branch of East Mongolian shamanism. This is the
shamanism of the Mongol population north and east of the Hsingan mountain
range up to the Yablonoj Mountains.
Walther Heissig.- Tracing Some Mongol Oral Motifs in a Chinese Prosimetric Ming Novel of 1478
Hok-Lam Chan.- Siting by Bowshot: A Mongolian Custom ans its Sociopolitical and Cultural Implications.
Mongols
who were under Chinese influence also practised geomancy... divination
based on terrestrial color and shape was widely spread among the people.
Kortlandt, Frederik.- Are
Mongolian and Tungus genetically related?
Nassen-Bayer and kevin Stuart.- Mongol Creation Stories : Man, Mongol Tribes, the Natural World, and Mongol Deities
The translators introduce a loosely connected series of Mongol stories about the creation and the beginning of the world. The interest of the stories lies in particular with the parallels they offer to stories that are widely known in East Asia.
S. Ju. Nekljudov.- The Mechanisms of Epic Plot and the Mongolian Geseriad. Oral Tradition, 11/1 (1996): 133-143
The Geser epic, which came to Mongolia from Tibet underwent radical changes in the Mongols’ own tradition. Of the twelve main chapters familiar to us in the literary tradition of the Mongols, only five have Tibetan counterparts, and these also include a large number of plot schemes of Mongolian origin.
Rinchindorji.-
Mongolian-Turkic
Epics: Typological Formation and Development. The academic
community has long noticed the resemblance between Mongolian and Turkic
epics. Some believe that the Mongols and the Turkic people share a narrative
tradition that accounts for their commonalities.
Schmieder, Felicitas.- The
Mongols as non-believing apocalyptic friends around the year 1260
Jim
Taylor.- GRASSLAND
POLICY, PRIVATISATION AND NEW ECOLOGY IN
INNER MONGOLIA. This paper argues that the recent policy
trend toward grassland ‘privatisation’ and the household enclosure
movement are generating conditions for greater inequalities and the decline
of natural resources.
Free Thesis and dissertations:
Ganzorig Davaa-Ochir.- Oboo Worship: The Worship of Earth and Water Divinities in Mongolia. University of Oslo. 2008.
In this thesis I will discuss religious beliefs and practices related to oboo worship, from its construction as a shrine for local deities to the religious and political rituals associated with oboo worship. Oboo (ovoo in spoken Mongolian) means literally ‘a cairn’ in Mongolian. This is a common stone structure that marks sacred places and travel routes or territorial boundaries in Inner Asia. The worship of oboo, i.e. sacred cairns, is currently one of the most widespread ritual practices in Mongolian popular religious life.
Books and references
Free excerpts of books about the Mongols
Allsen, Thomas.- Culture and Conquest in Mongol Eurasia.
Count of Lesdain.- The Mongol of Ordos in 1908 (From Pekin to Sikkin)
Free books about the Mongols
Abbott,
Jacob.- Genghis
Khan
Basic
Bibliography of the Mongols
Photo Exhibitions
Ethnic
China photo exhibitions
More Photo exhibitions
Music
Mongols
music
A guide to download their music
Films and Video
Documentary
Films about the Mongols
Available dvds and vcds about the Mongols
Image of the the Mongols in the cinema
Art and Handicrafts
The
Mongols in the art
Art Exhibitions
Travel
Travel
to Mongols lands
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