The Black Master

The Black Master is a Festschrift with 16 papers written by colleagues or former students of Professor György Kara, including some of the most renowned scholars in the field. The themes of the articles reflect the wide scope of Györgi Kara's research, with texts on Central Eurasian linguistics, history or ethnology. A list of his publications completes the volume.From the table of contents (17 contributions):C. Atwood, Poems of Fraternity: Literary Responses to the Attempted Reunification of Inner Mongolia and the Mongolian's People RepublicB. Baumann, "Nakshatra Astrology" in Antoine Mostaert's Manual of Mongolian Astrology and DivinationÁ. Birtalan, An Invocation to Dayan Derx Collected from a Darkhad Shaman's DescendantM. Dobrovits, The Tölis and the TarduS in Old Turkic InscriptionsJ. Elverskog, Sagang Sechen on the Qing ConquestJ. Janhunen, On the Development of the Sibilant System of Qinghai BonanM. Kiripolská, A Few Remarks on Some Mongolian Texts in StockholmR. I. Meserve, The Snowcocks of Central Asia and MongoliaD. Prior, Tonyuquq's Humiliation and an Old Turkic EtymologyA. Róna-Tas, Turko-Mongolian Etymologies: Turkic yarpV. Rybatzki, Personal Names and Titles of the Naiman in the Secret History of the MongolsY. Saitô, On the Word in West Middle MongolianA. Sárközi, Proper Names in the First Chapter of the Mongolian SuvarnaprabhasottamasutraA.G. Sazykin, Mongolian Xylographs in St. Petersburg's Collections