Literary Mongolian II

4 credits · Undergraduate

This course provides a chrestomathy to Literary Mongolian, its periods and genres. Covering pre-classical, classical, and modern eras, study will include official and epistolary documents from the Mongol empire, Yuan and Qing dynasties, and the 20th century; Buddhist scripture from the Sakya and Géluk traditions; specimens of literature and prosody; and sources of Mongolian history. In the process of reading period and genre texts the course will introduce Literary Mongol paleography and bibliography and research methods for Mongol Studies. The course is intended for students with facility in literary Mongol.