Religion and State in the Altaic World : Proceedings of the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference (PIAC), Friedensau, Germany, August 18–23, 2019

"This collection of papers presented at the 62nd Annual Meeting of the Permanent International Altaistic Conference explores the complex relations of religion and state in history, language and society of Altaic cultures, reflecting the unique interdisciplinary approach of the PIAC. It examines aspects of shamanism, religious belief, totemism and religious influences on contracts in historical literary monuments as well as in contemporary sources." -- Provided by publisher Preface Contents Material Culture: Shagreen in the Bābur-nāma Polysemy of the Word “Täŋri” Return of State-Supported Buddhist Rituals to Modern Mongolia Disasters — Acts of Heaven? Records of Disasters in the Draft History of Qing Totemism of the peoples of Altai origin From the Sanskrit-Tibetan transliteration system to the Mongolian and the Manchu ali-gali script Moghul Tribal Traditions in Mirza Haydar Dughlat’s Tarikh-i Rashidi Two Primary Accounts on the Sino-Mongolian Negotiation (1449–1450) On the Buddhist Feature of the Uighur Pintung Documents An Old Uyghur text fragment related to the Tocharian B “History of Kuchean kings” Shamanism in the Secret History and the Kojiki Tibetan Buddhism and Nomadic Mongolian Regimes 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 State and Church in Mongolia, a multidimensional relationship Роль мечетей Кыргызстана в религиозном воспитании молодежи Tengrism in the life of Turkic peoples “Meskhetian Turks”: an analysis of their ethnic self-identification and religion based on a sociolinguistic survey in 2013–2018 Polyglot Names of Imperial Horses and Dogs A New Analysis of the Kalbak Taš XV (A-33) Inscription