Author : Carolina Caetano
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 3710883253
This is the story of a two week visit to Mongolia. A country that is often equivaled to Genghis Khan and not much after that, Mongolia is a whole world in itself. From the astounding nature to the hearted food, always good for hangovers, these short passages reveal an unknown country worth knowing.
Author : Tomás Ramiro Vides
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 22,45 MB
Release : 2024-09-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3711555438
In this pages you will meet a magician and its going to be confusing. The shapes of magic are countless. Knowing that, Ramiro doesn ́t try for a second to classify some of them, or even to give you a tool on how to recognize them. He is joyfully jumping into what he believes its worth living, "the feeling of magic". He is writing now in third person because it just felt like that right now. He is me, well... both of us. I ́m not trying to confuse you. That is only the way it comes out. I have a weird sense of freedom while writing here. Enjoy!
Author : Lara Prior-Palmer
Publisher : Ebury Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,3 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785038860
Lara Prior-Palmer was seeking the unknown. In search of adventure aged nineteen, she entered the world's toughest horse race - a 1000km. ride through extreme conditions in the Mongolian wilderness.
Author : David Shi
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 26,22 MB
Release : 2016-05-14
Category :
ISBN : 9780990313625
From the ancient Mongol empire to the Manchurian Qing Dynasty, the people of North Asia have shaped the history of the world. With an extraordinary range of beliefs and practices, both indigenous and influenced by their geographic neighbours, the Animist, Shamanic, and Buddhist folk magicians of Mongolia, Manchuria, and Eastern Siberia preserve a vital religio-magical practice by which people seek and obtain blessings, protection, luck, love, and health. This book will open your eyes to diverse cultural customs and spell-casting methods that you may never have known existed.
Author : Jack Weatherford
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 45,71 MB
Release : 2016-10-25
Category : History
ISBN : 0735221162
A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known. Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark not just on the battlefield, but in the societies they have transformed. Genghis Khan conquered by arms and bravery, but he ruled by commerce and religion. He created the world's greatest trading network and drastically lowered taxes for merchants, but he knew that if his empire was going to last, he would need something stronger and more binding than trade. He needed religion. And so, unlike the Christian, Taoist and Muslim conquerors who came before him, he gave his subjects freedom of religion. Genghis lived in the 13th century, but he struggled with many of the same problems we face today: How should one balance religious freedom with the need to reign in fanatics? Can one compel rival religions - driven by deep seated hatred--to live together in peace? A celebrated anthropologist whose bestselling Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World radically transformed our understanding of the Mongols and their legacy, Jack Weatherford has spent eighteen years exploring areas of Mongolia closed until the fall of the Soviet Union and researching The Secret History of the Mongols, an astonishing document written in code that was only recently discovered. He pored through archives and found groundbreaking evidence of Genghis's influence on the founding fathers and his essential impact on Thomas Jefferson. Genghis Khan and the Quest for God is a masterpiece of erudition and insight, his most personal and resonant work.
Author : Peter Kingsley
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 21,60 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781890350208
Revealing a forgotten truth in the present day, this account illuminates the crumbling political and economic structures of the West, shedding light on an ongoing and arduous search for a sense of purpose. Recounting a true story, this exploration tells of a wandering Mongol shaman who made a dramatic appearance around the Mediterranean centuries before the time of Christ. Highlighting how this nomad came as an envoy on a mission of purification, this study records how he met with a man who became tremendously influential in Western science, philosophy, culture, and religion: Pythagoras. The essence of Western civilization is said to have originated from this meeting, and this examination argues that today’s conflicts and tensions have stemmed from taking this monumental occasion for granted, forgetting that there must be a greater meaning to life than everyday efforts and struggles. Reflecting on a time when Eastern and Western cultures were one, this evocation contends that there is still a common spiritual heritage to all civilizations. A unique collaboration between the author and archaeologists, historians, and shamans from around the world, this document has the potential to change the future for all.
Author : Sarangerel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 24,53 MB
Release : 2000-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1594775389
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 : Christel Braae
Publisher : Aarhus Universitetsforlag
Page : 1000 pages
File Size : 16,17 MB
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 877184497X
This is a study of a unique collection of Inner Mongolian artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark. They are described, analyzed and presented in a catalogue of more than 800 items, documenting the daily life of pastoral society in and around the tent, in the herding of the animals, in caravan trade and in hunting, crafts, sports and games, and in ritual life. Information about the objects was obtained during two expeditions to Inner Mongolia in the 1930s led by the Danish author Henning Haslund-Christensen, who had many years' experience of travel and expedition life in Mongolia. This is also a detailed account of the expeditions; of the routes, means and measures, as well as the worries and hopes of the participants; of their struggles with scientific aspirations; and of the conditions for collecting against the backdrop of the Chinese civil war and the Japanese occupation. The First and Second Danish Expeditions to Central Asia took place in 1936-1937 and 1938-1939 respectively. These expeditions were the sole foreign parties with access to the area at the time, and therefore their members were among the few observers of Inner Mongolian pastoral society at a time and place for which information was, and still is, scant and fragmented. Hence, the material objects and data obtained are of great scientific importance in the documentation of the life and material culture of Inner Mongolian herders in the 1930s - the main subject of the present book.
Author : Bawden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 29,99 MB
Release : 2013-10-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1136602623
This introduction to both written and oral Mongolian literature from the thirteenth to the nineteenth century provides a rare insight into the changing world views of the Mongolian people: from clan society to Soviet culture. Translated by renowned scholar Charles Bawden, the work is organised into Histories, Legends, Didactic literature, Epics, Shamanistic Incantations, Folk tales, Myths, Sino-Mongolian Prose Literature, Lyrics and Other Verse and Reminiscences, concluding with a modern short story. This important work, which makes the rich tradition of Mongolian literature available for the first time, will be essential reading for many years to come.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 740 pages
File Size : 18,12 MB
Release : 1939
Category : Japanese
ISBN :
