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PROLEGOMENON To the second volume of the series Aspects of Mongolian Buddhism With the second international conference dedicated to Buddhism among the Mongolian ethnic groups (April 2017) we celebrated the living religious practice.’ Since its advent, Buddhism was practice-orientated and involved all layers of the society —irrespectively of the area and political or cultural milieu spread in. All the Mongols living around the world in Mongolia and other countries can practice Buddhism: Mongolia is a Buddhist country and the Mongolian minorities in China and Russia have various possibilities for religious engagement. The Buddhist religious practice embraces a variegated scale of forms, starting with the monastic practice up to the everyday rituals, prayers, mantras repeated by believers. The incorporating nature of Buddhism produced many local variants, and the strong Pre-Buddhist belief system changed the original philosophy and religion considerably. The Mongolian areal variants include many territorial and ethnic-specific elements of religious systems surviving in the Buddhist rituals. Mongolian Buddhism is an important historical and cultural phenomenon that is inseparable from Mongolian identity and many aspects of “Mongolness” can not be understood without knowing the Buddhist practice in detail in both diachronic and synchronic aspects. The festive and everyday practice implicates traditional and innovative components which is an inexhaustible topic for studies. With the present volume we offer a glimpse into various ways, elements, and interpretations of historical and contemporary, monastic and lay, festive and everyday practice of Mongolian Buddhism. The second volume of the series Aspects of Mongolian Buddhism follows in many respects the features of the first volume: Aspects of Mongolian Buddhism 1. Past, Present and Future. Ed. Birtalan, Ägnes — Teleki, Krisztina — Majer, Zsuzsa — Fahidi, Csaba — Räkos, Attila. Budapest, L’Harmattan 2018. 474 p. (ISBN 978-2-343-14326-2). All languages, Mongolian Buddhism is studied in, have their place in an academic work. The attendance of the conference is reflected in the large scale of topics and similarly to the previous volume we included articles of researchers who have not been able to participate in the conference. The editors of the book follow the policy of publishing contributions of the younger generation of Mongolists and Buddhologists as well. ! Various materials concerning the events, cf. on the site: https://www.facebook.com/pg/belsoazsia/photos/?tab=album&album_id=1397919163602109 11
