On February 27, 2014, Dr. Tatiana Pang will read a lecture The Manchu Imperial and Popular Shamanism, 17th  to 20th Century [Императорский и простонародный шаманизм манчжуров (XVII—XX вв.)] at the Russian Geographic Society.

PICTURES 

The Shaman woman from the Manchu manuscript brought by A.V. Grebenshchikov from his expedition to Manchuria in 1907, published in the monograph "Nišan saman-i bithe - The Tale of the Nišan Shaman", edition and translation by M.P. Volkova, Moscow 1961

A building where shamanic offerings were made at the Shengyang Imperial palace (photo by T. Pang, 2005)