Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of "Mother Mongolia"

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Hidden in Plain Sight: The Story of "Mother Mongolia"

Original language description

This article describes and analyzes a devotional image currently kept in the library of Gandantegc'inlen Monastery in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Created during the late Communist period, the image, entitled "Mother Mongolia" (Mongol ee), is actually an imageof Green T?r? in disguise. The image of Mother Mongolia should be located within the paradigms of both traditional Mongolian visual culture as well as the visual culture of the USSR (of which Mongolia was a satellite state). In this article, I examine the visual strategies of subterfuge employed by the unknown creator of the image of Mother Mongolia in order to be able to display an image of Green T?r? openly, during an era when the display of such images would normally have been forbidden. At the sametime, an analysis of the discourse that formed around this image as part of the interview with the Buddhist monk B. Mo'nhbaatar reveals the cognitive and religious-philosophical strategies that formed an integral part of the reception or

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AC - Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology

OECD FORD branch

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Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2013

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Mongolo-Tibetica Pragensia

ISSN

1803-5647

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Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

22

Pages from-to

85-106

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