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PRELIMINARY NOTES ON TIBETAN AFTER-DEATH RITES AND THEIR TEXTS IN MONGOLIAN BUDDHIST PRACTICE Mongolian culture** or Mongolian Buddhism*, as well as works on Mongolian burial traditions or connected Mongolian Buddhist practices, such as a small booklet for informing believers on after-death Buddhist rites**, and the comparative and very detailed work of the Inner-Mongolian Quréabilig on the burial practices of the Mongols”?. I also used, for given after-death reading titles, several publications issued for believers informing them on readings in the monasteries and their purposes.** Connected Preliminary Researches The planned research follows from my research activity ongoing for years now with the aim of studying the ceremonial system of the revived Mongolian Buddhism and the operation of its monasteries and temples. As a Tibetologist and Mongolist, apart from studying related written sources, I executed fieldworks in Mongolia 6 times until now working in monasteries, libraries and archives researching the present-day religious life and ceremonies of the revived Mongolian Buddhism, the history of the old Mongolian monasteries ruined in the 1937 purges and their monastic life, ceremonial and ritual practice — partly through fieldwork in present-day monasteries and on old monastic sites and partly through interviews executed with old surviving monks and done between 2006-2009 together with Krisztina Teleki. As for the study of the Mongolian Buddhist ceremonial system, the topic of the planned research also belongs to, I summarized the results of my several years’ fieldwork in all active temples of Ulanbatar and several countryside temples in my PhD dissertation written on the ritual and ceremonial practice in present-day Mongolian monasteries (A Comparative Study of the Ceremonial Practice in Present-day Mongolian Monasteries). This research mainly focused on the regular ceremonies of Mongolian temples (annual, seasonal, monthly, weekly, and daily chantings) and also on the readings that take place in them on the request of For example Bat-Irédiii, J. — Ariyasiiren C.: Mongol yos jansilin ix tailbar tol’. Ulsin Ix Surgülin Xewlel, Ulanbatar 1999 [The Great Explanatory Dictionary of Mongolian Customes]. [Without author] Buddin Sasin, soyolin tailbar tol’. (Buddin sudlal cuwral 2.). Mongol Ulsin Ix Surgil’, Ulanbatar 2000 [Encyclopaedia of Buddhist Religion and Culture (Collection of Buddhist Religious Studies 2.)]. 36 Enxnasan, D.: Xoidin buyan. Ulanbatar 2010 [Merits in Future Lifes]. Quréabilig, G. N.: Mongyoléud-un oroSiyulya-yin soyol. Ober mongyol-un soyol-un keblel-ün goriy-a, K6éke-Qota 2003 [Mongolian Funeral Customs]; in Cyrillic translation: Xurcbileg, N.: Mongolcidin or$ülax jan tiilin soyol. Ulanbatar 2010 [The culture of the Burial Customs of the Mongols]. Dasjegwe, X.: Xdgdsan Siitleg niigdsan siisegin san x6mrégés / Sakni ulamjlalt yos, jan iiilin tol’. Mongolin Süsegtni Xolbö, Ulänbätar 1997 [From the Treasury of the Secret Religion and Hidden Belief / Dictionary of Traditional Buddhist Customes and Rituals]; Arwis, A. (ed.): Mongolin xid dacangüdad xurax xuralin tine, nersin jagsalt, towé agiilga. Ulanbatar 2001 [Prices, List of Titles, and Short Contents of Ceremonies Held in Mongolian Monasteries]; [Without author] Jas/in nomo xdna unstilax we? Uldanbatar xot dax’ buddin Sasni stim xidiidin towé lawlax. Ulanbatar 2000 [Where to Request Readings? A Short Description of the Buddhist Temples of Ulanbatar]. 355
