The Tengir Ordo ( —
Tengri
Tengri (; Old Uyghur: ; Middle Turkic: ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Proto-Turkic: / ; Mongolian script: , ; , ; , ) is the all-encompassing God of Heaven in the traditional Turkic, Yeniseian, Mongolic, and various other nomadic religious beliefs. So ...
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Orda) is a
Tengrist
Tengrism (also known as Tengriism, Tengerism, or Tengrianism) is a belief-system originating in the Eurasian Steppe, Eurasian steppes, based on shamanism and animism. It generally involves the titular sky god Tengri. According to some scholars, ...
neopagan
Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, spans a range of new religious movements variously influenced by the beliefs of pre-modern peoples across Europe, North Africa, and the Near East. Despite some common simila ...
religious movement established in 2005 in
Bishkek
Bishkek, formerly known as Pishpek (until 1926), and then Frunze (1926–1991), is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. Bishkek is situated near the Kazakhstan ...
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Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan, officially the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia lying in the Tian Shan and Pamir Mountains, Pamir mountain ranges. Bishkek is the Capital city, capital and List of cities in Kyrgyzstan, largest city. Kyrgyz ...
with International Scientific Center of Tengrist Studies, but already previously incorporated as Tengir-Ordo Association for the Preservation of the National Heritage that in 2003 in Bishkek held the first international scientific symposium on Tengrism "Tengrism—the worldview of the Altaic peoples".
Its founder is
Dastan Sarygulov, an active promoter of Tengrism, has authored a book on Tengrism, and in 2005–2006 was the state secretary and chair of special state working group dealing with ideological issues.
The movement was inspired by the ideas of one of the first ideologists of pre-Islamic religion in the post-Soviet space, the Kyrgyz writer Choiun Omuraliev alias Choiun uulu Omuraly, described in his book "Tengrism” (1994).
D. Sarygulov interprets Tengrism as the native religion of the Kyrgyz and being an optimal way to promote an anti-capitalist lifestyle and a natural response to globalization processes.
Tengir Ordo aims to promote the values and traditions of the Tengrist period of Kyrgyzstan and spread pre-Islamic cultures among the Central Asian
Turks for making them closer together again.
It publishes a Tengrist calendar.
See also
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List of Tengrist movements
Tengrism—the Turkic- Mongolic ethnic religion—may include both old folk traditions and neo-Tengrist movements, which try to reconstruct old native beliefs.
Movements are distributed according to their ethnicity with year of foundation.
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References
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Modern pagan organizations established in 2005
Religious organisations based in Kyrgyzstan
2005 establishments in Kyrgyzstan