Sacred heights in the topography of flatlands. Ovaa kurgans in the Kalmyk Buddhist landscape
Since their migration to the northern Caspian, the Kalmyks have attributed the ritual, political and functional roles of the sacred cairns (Mo. ovoo, Kalm. ovaa) of Inner Asia to steppe kurgans, or ancient burial mounds that abound throughout the North Caucasus and Caspian Depression, the oldest dat...
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Études mongoles et sibériennes, centrasiatiques et tibétaines
2021
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