A Tibetan offering ritual to Dayan Degereki, a Mongolian local deity
A Tibetan offering ritual to Dayan Degereki, a Mongolian local deity
Author(s): Róbert TörökSubject(s): Cultural history, Customs / Folklore, Historical Linguistics, History of Religion
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: Deity Dayan Degereki; mountain cult; gtor ma-offering; religious syncretism; Tibetan impact on Mongolian Buddhism; folk religion;
Summary/Abstract: In this article an offering text written in Tibetan by Mongolian monks will be presented. The Tibetan text is given in Latin transcription accompanied by an English translation and a few preliminary notes. This Buddhist text was dedicated to Dayan Degereki, a Mongolian deity, who appears, due to religious syncretism, once as a fertility god and a guarding spirit of the shamanic initiations, once as a protector deity of the Buddhist law. This text forms the backbone of my PhD dissertation to be submitted soon, which will offer an analysis of the present text in a wider context of religious syncretism.
Journal: Acta Orientalia Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
- Issue Year: 62/2009
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 45-87
- Page Count: 43
- Language: English
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