The Mongolian programme continued building momentum at this year's festival, with two finalist projects being presented at ...

In a documentary commemorating his 70th birthday "Shoigu 70. Rules of Life", one of the Kremlin’s top warmongers pats himself ...

She could have been a shaman. She might have had the ability to heal people ... while others think she must have had Mongolian characteristics. The facial reconstructions carried out have not been ...

Shamanism, also known as Tengerism, is something people usually have heard of, but very few have experienced it. In fact, this is a kind of spiritual belief stemming from the Stone and Bronze Ages and ...

Erdeng is a shaman from the grasslands of West Ujimqin Banner near the Mongolian border in China. When he was young, he studied under a respected shaman in Mongolia. Baolidao, Erdeng’s son ...

About 50% of the populace is Tibetan Buddhist, 40% are atheist (thanks no doubt to 70 years of Communism under the Soviets), with the remaining 10% evangelical Christians, Tengrists/shamans, Muslims, ...

From the Steppes With Shamanism: the Hu Makes Hits With Praises to the Sky Deity (RNS) — An eight-man heavy metal band from Mongolia known as The Hu has done what few thought could happen in the ...

In the Mongolian tradition, shamans use rituals and trance states to communicate with the dead or spiritual beings. Although the players don’t claim to be shamans, the pounding “Shoog ...

Though anthropologists use “shaman” (a word of Tungusic origin) to define this phenomenon, in Mongolian culture, our traditional belief system is called Boo murgel, which involves ...

The Russian president reportedly visited shamans, who claim they can communicate with the spiritual world, in Mongolia and Siberia to discuss military tactics. He even sought their blessing to use ...

Last fall, photographer Pat Kane spent a month living with nomadic herders on the vast, barren steppe in western Mongolia, where he slept in a traditional ger (a circular, portable tent), and took ...

While the majestic Mongolian steppes provided an epic backdrop ... like it’s already there… The man who officiated was a shaman named Shiva.” Photo by Sabrina Chiongbian Camila walked ...