Mongolian and Tibetan shamanic revival accounts under the PRC

Record summary

The early People’s Republic period generated documentation about the regulation, suppression, and partial survival of Mongolian shamanic practices and Tibetan ritual specialists. These materials may include reports on spirit-mediums, divination, healing, and monastery-linked ritual knowledge, particularly before and during the Cultural Revolution. The lead matters for comparing esoteric traditions through administrative archives rather than occultist literature. Interpretation is difficult because official reports often classify ritual as superstition and may omit practitioners’ own categories or chronology.