PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
The resemblance and Central Asian transmission routes have motivated a hypothesis, but direct evidence connecting the Buddhist term to the Evenki word remains insufficient.
/ˈʃɑːmən/ · noun
English shaman, recorded by 1698, is ultimately from Evenki šamān. European scholarship later generalized one Siberian term across many unrelated spiritual traditions.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Documents the unresolved deeper-origin debate.
pp. 137–139 — three theories and direct-evidence gapStops the established route at Evenki.
Word History — ultimately Evenki šamānExplains how the Evenki term acquired a global scholarly scope.
Abstract and chapter 1 — Western generalizationThe Sanskrit comparison is a speculative competing graph edge, not part of the promoted linear ancestry.