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In his lifelong study of Mongol culture, Walther Heissig has focused on two closely related areas: Mongol religion and Mongol epics/epic poetry. With regard to the former, he considered shamanism and popular religion to be of such importance that he allotted more than half of his treatise on Mongol religion (HEISSIG 1970) to these topics. Although his recent work has tended to concentrate increasingly on the presentation and analysis of Mongolian epic traditions, the present collection of articles is proof that he has retained his interest in religion, and in particular in Mongol ...

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