Between the Himalayas and Inner Asia: The Mongolian Case

Cultural interaction between Inner Asia and the Himalayas, the central topic of the Third International Colloquium of SEECHAC, is always relevant in discovering the Mongolian case. The Mongols as heirs to the Inner Asian nomadic economic and cultural heritage in many respects have also been the transmitters of ideas and concepts starting from religions like Buddhism, Manichaeism and Nestorian Christianity up to the sometimes hardly recognisable minor motifs of religious, literary or artistic traditions. The mediating role the Inner Asian nomads had played for centuries became controlled by the Mongols from the 13thcentury with the establishment of the Great