Maria Beltsikova, About my clan protectors and the persecution of monks
Authors
Terbish, Baasanjav
Editors
Churyumova, Elvira
Korneev, Gennadiy
Contributors
Churyumov, Anton
Publication Date
2017-12-01Publisher
Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge
Language
Kalmyk
Type
Video
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Terbish, B. (2017). Maria Beltsikova, About my clan protectors and the persecution of monks [Video file]. https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56138
Abstract
Maria says that the terrain around the village of Bolshoi Tsaryn is flat, with no mounds or barrows. The nearest river is in a place called Yangal. Maria’s husband was from the Taltakhin clan whose patrons are the goddesses White and Green Tara. The patron of Maria’s mother’s clan is Anja Burkhn.Maria reminisces about her childhood when one day she saw papers flying on the steppe presumably from the nearby temples that had been ransacked by the Bolsheviks. She was warned by her mother not to touch any paper. In 1929 the local monks were arrested and sent into exile. Those who were spared hid their identity and stopped performing religious rituals.
Keywords
Clan, deities, persecution
Sponsorship
Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
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This record's DOI: https://doi.org/10.17863/CAM.56138
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Licence URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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