Depictions and Sacred Texts of Śrīdevī Preserved in the Collections of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

Teleki, Krisztina (2025) Depictions and Sacred Texts of Śrīdevī Preserved in the Collections of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. ACTA ORIENTALIA ACADEMIAE SCIENTIARUM HUNGARICAE, 78 (2). pp. 321-348. ISSN 0001-6446

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Abstract

Śrīdevī, especially in the form of the Military Sorceress Queen, Rematī, became a popular wrathful deity and Dharmapāla of the Tibeto-Mongolian Buddhist pantheon. Śrīdevī’s Mongolian cult was described in Russian by Surun-Khanda Syrtypova in 2003, based on written materials preserved in the archives of the Institute of Mongolian Studies and Tibetology of the Siberian Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The present article provides an inventory of the tangible heritage that has remained from Śrīdevī’s old cult (17–20 th century) in the institutes of Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. Among the sacred texts one can find sources written by Tibetan and Mongolian monks in the Tibetan language and Mongolian translations or individual texts. The three main museums exhibiting religious artefacts preserve 150 relevant images, crafted mostly in the 19 th century.

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