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Inventing Sulde Woshipping Tradition among Alasha Mongols


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Bulag, Uradyn E. 

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Duan Gerel is in charge of the Torghut White Sülde worship in Bayan Nurgan, which he established following the model of Chingis Khan’s White Sülde in Ordos. He explains that a couple of years ago, he often dreamed about a special triangle iron object wrapped in silk but he never recognised what it was. After consulting many local knowledgeable people and lamas, he got to know that his ancestors used to worship a sülde but lost it after hiding it in a cave during the Cultural Revolution. In 2008, he went to Ordos to learn how to worship sülde and built 9 white süldes next to his house. Due to the local governmental restriction, he had to organise his first inaugural ritual under the name of “herders’ summer tour” (牧家游). Nowadays, there are annual, monthly and even daily rituals at small scale, but a grand ritual is held once every 13 years.

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sülde, Ordos, Torghut White Sülde worship, Bayan Nurgan, rituals

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Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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