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The Secret History is regarded as the single most significant native Mongolian account of Genghis Khan. Linguistically, it provides the richest source of pre-Classical Mongol and Middle Mongol. [2] The Secret History is regarded as a piece of classic literature in both Mongolia and the rest of the world, and has been translated into more than ...
The two would meet every weekday at three to sip tea and perhaps read from the Chinese classics or dynastic histories. Cleaves introduced Hung to the Mongol histories, and Hung published several articles in this field. Hung's article on the Secret History of the Mongols, however, drew conclusions which Cleaves did not feel were correct. Out of ...
The History and the Life of Chinggis Khan: The Secret History of the Mongols. Brill Archive. ISBN 978-90-04-09236-5. Bradbury, Sue (1993). Chinggis Khan: The Golden History of the Mongols. Folio Society. Humphrey, Caroline; Onon, Urgunge (1996). Shamans and Elders: Experience, Knowledge and Power Among the Daur Mongols. Clarendon Press.
Christopher Pratt Atwood is an American scholar of Mongolian and Chinese history.Currently the Chair of the University of Pennsylvania's East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department, he has authored six books and published more than 100 articles on a wide variety of topics.
The "three peaks" of Mongol literature, The Secret History of the Mongols, Epic of King Gesar and Epic of Jangar, [3] all reflect the age-long tradition of heroic epics on the Eurasian Steppe. Mongol literature has also been a reflection of the society of the given time, its level of political, economic and social development as well as leading ...
Alan Gua and her sons, from Jami' al-tawarikh, by Rashid-al-Din Hamadani. Alan Gua (Mongolian: Алун гуа, Alun gua, lit. "Alun the Beauty".Gua or Guva/Quwa means beauty in Mongolian) is a mythical figure from The Secret History of the Mongols, eleven generations after the blue-grey wolf and the red doe, and ten generations before Genghis Khan.
Jamukha was born in the Jadaran, a sub-tribe of the Khamag Mongol confederation, and was an anda (i.e. blood brother) to Temüjin.. According to The Secret History of the Mongols, when Börte, wife of Temüjin, and Sochigel, his step-mother, were abducted, by the Three Merkits; Wang Khan, Jamukha and Temüjin combined forces against the Merkits to recover Börte.
Damdinsüren wrote poetry that was well received in Mongolia. He also produced prose and literary studies, and a translation of The Secret History of the Mongols into modern Mongolian. The language of his poems and prose was largely based on the oral literary traditions of Mongolia, which he developed into a classical language of the Mongolian ...