Resources
Dictionaries:
- Jerry Norman: “Concise Manchu-English Lexicon”, Publications on Asia of the School of International Studies, no. 32, 1978.
- Иван Захаров: “Полный маньчжурско-русскiй словарь” Санктпетербургъ, 1875 (Ivan Zakharov “Complete Manchu-Russian Dictionary”, St. Petersburg 1875) (the PDF file is about 40MB)
First serious Manchu – Western language dictionary, with very detailed definitions, but the digitised version isn’t very user-friendly. - “Manchu-Mongolian-Chinese Triglot Dictionary of 1780” Arranged by Manchu words (CNEAS Monograph Series No. 30), Compiled by H. Kuribayashi and Hurelbator.
Manchu and Mongolian romanized, the PDF files are searchable. In the translation of “The Book of the Nishan Shaman” we use the abbreviation MaChMo while referring to this dictionary. - “Han i araha sunja hacin i hergen kamciha manju gisun i buleku bithe” or “The Imperial Dictionary(lit. mirror-book) of Five Languages”.
Manchu-Tibetan-Uyghur-Mongolian-Chinese dictionary from the 18th century. It surely is a marvelous dictionary, but try to find anything in it… it will take you a couple of hours to get to the right part. - P. Schmidt: “Chinesische Elemente im Mandschu”, in: Asia Major vol.7,8 1933. part 1, part 2, part3
A very useful glossary, though some of the theories seem a bit far-fetched. - Manchu-Chinese-Sanskrit-Mongolian glossary of Buddhist terms. from “Pentaglot Dictionary of Buddhist Terms”, Delhi, 1961.
- В.И.Цинциус: “Сравнительный словарь тунгусо-маньчжурских языков” Ленинград 1975, 1977 (V. I. Cincius /editor/ “Comparative Dictionary of the Manchu-Tungus Languages” Leningrad 1975, 1977)
- Erich Hauer: “Manchu-German Dictionary” (In progress)
Spoken Manchu / Sibe:
- “The Impact of English on Minority Languages in China” – a chapter from thesis by Jeffrey Allan Gil.
- manjugisun’s YouTube channel.
Texts in Manchu:
- “Musei ejen Isus Heristos i tutabuha ice hese” – Gospel according to St. Mark: scans in colour (38MB) or black and white (9MB).
- P.G. von Möllendorff: “A Manchu Grammar with Analysed texts“, Shanghai, 1892.
- Thomas Taylor Meadows: “Translations from the Manchu“, Canton, 1849
- Manchu Buddhist Canon
- “Twenty-One Hymns to the Rescuer Saint Tārā, Mother of Buddhas” – a sutra in Manchu, Tibetan and Chinese.
Nixan saman:
- Scanned manuscript of the most complete, original Manchu version, written by Dekdengge for Prof. Grebenshchikov in Vladivostok in 1913. (uploaded by bucin)
- 河内良弘: “ニシャン・サマン傳 譯注” (Kawachi Yoshiro, The Tale of the Nishan Shaman), in: 京都大學文學部研究紀要, 26: 141-230, Kyoto University, 1987.
Romanization of the manuscript, with Japanese glosses, used as basis for our translation. - М. П. Волкова : “Предание о нишанской шаманке“, Ленинград, 1965 (M. P. Volkova “Predanie o nishanskoi shamanke”, Leningrad, 1965).
Russian translation of the legend, with foreword. It contains numerous inaccuracies and misinterpretations. - The Manchu version retold for younger readers.
- Dagur version, the legend begins on page 101 of this paper. (Sino-Platonic.org)
A summary of Nanai(/Hezhen) version (page 22 of the document).
(Please, let us know if you have the full Nanai version; it can be found in “松花江下流的赫哲族“, Nanking, 1934, or “Münchener Beiträge zur Völkerkunde“, 1988 issue.)
Another Manchu (or Evenki) version of the legend can be found here. - 津曲敏郎: “Nišan Saman i Bithe における満州語詩の分析” (An Analysis of the Manchu Poems in Nišan Saman i Bithe) in: 北海道大學文學部紀要, vol. 28, 1980 (in Japanese)
Shamanism:
- S. M. Shirokogoroff: “Psychomental Complex of the Tungus” and other works by the great Russian ethnographer can be found here.
- Mihály Hoppál: “Shamans and Tradition“
- 宋和平 (Song Heping): “Dances of Manchu Shamans”
—————: “A Preliminary Analysis of the Oral Shamanistic Songs of the Manchus”
—————: “满族萨满神歌内容浅析” – Chinese version of the above
—————: “满族女神佛哩佛多卧莫西妈妈论析“ - Lisha Li: The symbolization process of the shamanic drums used by the Manchus and other people in North Asia
- An article on siša, shaman’s belt with bells (in Chinese)
- “Echoes of primitive drums“
- 满洲萨满教背灯祭 – a video
- 萨满教文化巡礼 – a documentary film
Manchu customs:
- Northeast Manchu New Year’s Customs (in Chinese)
Conferences:
Newspaper articles:
- Race against time to save Manchu language (china.org.cn)
- In China, the Forgotten Manchu Seek to Rekindle Their Glory
Please let us know if you have any other valuable papers, articles, webpages concerning Manchu we didn’t include above.
