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<blockquote data-quote="tetsujin28" data-source="post: 1953466" data-attributes="member: 1478"><p>It's especially tricky trying to discern exactly what Mongol beliefs were, other than 'pagan', i.e. not Christian. All current research points to shamanism being a relatively recent construction relying upon contact with lamaism. It's also important to keep in mind that shamanism (in the form encountered in the Altai region), is more a <em>technique</em> than a <em>belief</em>, and that even only fifty years since the publication of many of the major papers, it has changed drastically. Also the work of Mircea Eliade, author of the seminal work on shamanism, is pretty much in academic disrepute.</p><p></p><p>The ancient beliefs of the Mongols (and the entirety of Central Asia) is pretty much impossible to reconstruct. Many of our religious works from Central Asia are in Tocharian, and written either in Brahmi or Kharosthi, and are either Buddhist or Manichean. Of course, Mani was highly influenced by early Christianity, but other than the texts from the Tarim Basin, all the information we have on Manicheaism is attacks from Christian apologists. Regarding the early (pre-Buddhist contact) religion in the area, good work is being done by Esther Jacobsen in the area of the Gorno-Altai.</p><p></p><p>Of course, we do have numerous texts from the Nestorian Christian communities in Syriac, Sogdian, Middle Persian, and Turkish, as well as in Chinese at Chang'an, and it is known that there were Nestorian Christians amongs the followers of the Mongol Khan. The language most responsible for the spread was Sogdian.</p><p></p><p>A good source for debating the validity of 'shamanism' is <em>The Concept of Shamanism: Uses and Abuses</em>, edited by Henri-Paul Francfort and Roberte Hamayon.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tetsujin28, post: 1953466, member: 1478"] It's especially tricky trying to discern exactly what Mongol beliefs were, other than 'pagan', i.e. not Christian. All current research points to shamanism being a relatively recent construction relying upon contact with lamaism. It's also important to keep in mind that shamanism (in the form encountered in the Altai region), is more a [i]technique[/i] than a [i]belief[/i], and that even only fifty years since the publication of many of the major papers, it has changed drastically. Also the work of Mircea Eliade, author of the seminal work on shamanism, is pretty much in academic disrepute. The ancient beliefs of the Mongols (and the entirety of Central Asia) is pretty much impossible to reconstruct. Many of our religious works from Central Asia are in Tocharian, and written either in Brahmi or Kharosthi, and are either Buddhist or Manichean. Of course, Mani was highly influenced by early Christianity, but other than the texts from the Tarim Basin, all the information we have on Manicheaism is attacks from Christian apologists. Regarding the early (pre-Buddhist contact) religion in the area, good work is being done by Esther Jacobsen in the area of the Gorno-Altai. Of course, we do have numerous texts from the Nestorian Christian communities in Syriac, Sogdian, Middle Persian, and Turkish, as well as in Chinese at Chang'an, and it is known that there were Nestorian Christians amongs the followers of the Mongol Khan. The language most responsible for the spread was Sogdian. A good source for debating the validity of 'shamanism' is [i]The Concept of Shamanism: Uses and Abuses[/i], edited by Henri-Paul Francfort and Roberte Hamayon. [/QUOTE]
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