BETWEEN TURKESTAN AND TIBET: THE SALARS

Monograph — exhibition catalogue is devoted to the history, culture and ethnography of the peoples of Chinese Turkestan and Tibetan foothills and first of all to the Salar — a small people group (about 110 thousand people) of the Oghuz, South Turkic origin. The book is based on the material of the expedition organized in 2008 and studies of the rich collections of Saint-Petersburg Kunstkamera.

	Yuriy Chistov, Hao Shi-yuan. A Word to the Exhibition Guests
	Expeditions Are Not Over
	In Kashgharia and the Tibetan Foothills
	I. Between Turkestan and Tibet
	Buddhism on the Silk Road
	Kumbum Monastery (Taersi)
	Islam — Ramadan — Night of Measures
	Tuyoq — “Mecca” for Chinese Turkestan
	II. The Salars
	The Silk Road
	Faith
	The Legend
	Woman in Keyta
	Home and Tea
	Language and Song
	Edham Tenishev and Salar Heritage
	A Conclusion About the Future
	III. Attachments
	Vladimir Kislyakov, Efim Rezvan, Polina Rud. Тhe Peoples of Chinese Turkestan in the Collections of the MAE RAS (Short Preliminary Catalogue)
	Vladimir Korenyako. On the Collection of E. R. Tenishev in the State Museum of Oriental Art
	Video topics by Yuri Krylov for the exhibition project "Between Turkestan and Tibet: The Salars":
	The Salars. A joky trailer of the project
	Buddhism on the Silk Road
	Kumbum Monastery (Taersi)
	Islam — Ramadan — Night of Measures
	Tuyoq — “Mecca” for Chinese Turkestan
	The Legend
	Faith
	Salar House
	Woman in Keyta
	Language and Song
	Edham Tenishev