The Tengir Ordo ( ky, Теңир Ордо} —

Tengri Tengri ( zh, 騰格里; otk, 𐰚𐰇𐰚:𐱅𐰭𐰼𐰃, Kök Teŋri/Teŋiri, lit=Blue Heaven; Old Uyghur: ''tängri''; Middle Turkic: تآنغرِ; ky, теңир; tr, Tanrı; az, Tanrı; bg, Тангра; Proto-Turkic *''teŋri / * ...

's Orda) is a

Tengrist Tengrism (also known as Tengriism, Tengerism, or Tengrianism) is an ethnic and old state Turko- Mongolic religion originating in the Eurasian steppes, based on folk shamanism, animism and generally centered around the titular sky god Tengri. ...

neopagan Modern paganism, also known as contemporary paganism and neopaganism, is a term for a religion or family of religions influenced by the various historical pre-Christian beliefs of pre-modern peoples in Europe and adjacent areas of North Afric ...

religious movement established in 2005 in

Bishkek Bishkek ( ky, Бишкек), ), formerly Pishpek and Frunze, is the capital and largest city of Kyrgyzstan. Bishkek is also the administrative centre of the Chüy Region. The region surrounds the city, although the city itself is not part of ...

Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan,, pronounced or the Kyrgyz Republic, is a landlocked country in Central Asia. Kyrgyzstan is bordered by Kazakhstan to the north, Uzbekistan to the west, Tajikistan to the south, and the People's Republic of China to the east. ...

with International Scientific Center of Tengrist Studies, but already previously incorporated as Tengir-Ordo Association for the Preservation of the National Heritage that in 2003 in Bishkek held the first international scientific symposium on Tengrism "Tengrism—the worldview of the Altaic peoples". Its founder is

Dastan Sarygulov Dastan Islamovich Sarygulov ( ky, Дастан Дастан Ислам уулу Сарыгулов, translit=Dastan Islam uulu Sarygulov, born 1947) is a Kyrgyz businessman and politician. After graduating as an engineer in 1970, he made a career ...

, an active promoter of Tengrism, has authored a book on Tengrism, and in 2005–2006 was the state secretary and chair of special state working group dealing with ideological issues. The movement was inspired by the ideas of one of the first ideologists of pre-Islamic religion in the post-Soviet space, the Kyrgyz writer Choiun Omuraliev alias Choiun uulu Omuraly, described in his book "Tengrism” (1994). D. Sarygulov interprets Tengrism as the native religion of the Kyrgyz and being an optimal way to promote an anti-capitalist lifestyle and a natural response to globalization processes. Tengir Ordo aims to promote the values and traditions of the Tengrist period of Kyrgyzstan and spread pre-Islamic cultures among the Central Asian

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for making them closer together again. It publishes a Tengrist calendar.

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* {{Neopaganism Tengriism Modern pagan organizations established in the 2000s Religious organizations established in 2005 Religious organisations based in Kyrgyzstan

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