Tengri can either refer to the sky deity or refer also to other deities (compare this with the concept of Kami). Altaian Burkhanism and Chuvash Vattisen Yaly are movements similar to Tengrism. Still practiced, it is undergoing an organized revival in Buryatia, Sakha (Yakutia), Khakassia, Tuva and other Turkic nations in Siberia.
Tengrism has been advocated in intellectual circles of the Turkic nations of Central Asia ( Kyrgyzstan with Kazakhstan) and Russia ( Tatarstan, Bashkortostan) since the dissolution of the Soviet Union during the 1990s. All modern adherents of "political" Tengrism are monotheists. The term also describes several contemporary Turko-Mongolic native religious movements and teachings. Abdulkadir Inan argues that Yakut and Altai shamanism are not entirely equal to the ancient Turkic religion.
According to many academics, Tengrism was a predominantly polytheistic religion based on shamanistic concept of animism, and during the imperial period, especially by the 12th–13th centuries, Tengrism was mostly monotheistic. In Irk Bitig, a ninth century manuscript on divination, Tengri is mentioned as Türük Tängrisi (God of Turks). It was the prevailing religion of the Turks, Mongols, Bulgars, Xiongnu, Huns and possibly the Hungarians, and the state religion of several medieval states: First Turkic Khaganate, Western Turkic Khaganate, Eastern Turkic Khaganate, Old Great Bulgaria, First Bulgarian Empire, Volga Bulgaria, and Eastern Tourkia (Khazaria), Mongol Empire.
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