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Manjusri Monastery

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Next to the reconstructed museum stands the impressive (although in ruins) Togchin temple ruins, originally built in 1749 with architecture that recalls the temples of Tibet. In all, the ruins of 17 buildings, distributed over a rising terrain, can be identified throughout the vast area of the
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Today, the monastery serves as a tourist and hiking destination with an on-site hostel. The monastery was returned to the Buddhist temple and the surviving objects within the monastery complex (the restored temple, the remains of walls and buildings, images of Buddhist deities and sacred
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of wisdom, was first established by the sainted monk Luvsanjambaldanzan in 1733 as the permanent residence of the Reincarnation of the Bodhisattva of Wisdom. It came under the personal administration of Mongolia’s religious leader, the
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Most of the area surrounding the monastery is part of the Bogdkhan Uul Strictly Protected Area which contains abundant wildlife, streams and cedar trees. In 1783 the local Mongolian government of the
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and in 1992 the executed monks were officially rehabilitated. In 1998 the ruins of the monastery were protected by the state. To date, only the main building has been rebuilt and is now a museum.
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Not far from that is a 2-ton bronze cauldron created in 1726 engraved with a Tibetan inscription. It was used to provide food to the pilgrims and could boil up to 10 sheep and 2 cattle at a time.
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monastery. In the cliff above the monastery are several 18th Century Buddhist cave paintings and reliefs, as well as Buddhist inscriptions in Tibetan language, which escaped destruction in 1937.
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established in 1733 and destroyed by Mongolian communists in 1937. Its ruins are located approximately 15 kilometers (as the crow flies, 43 kilometers by car) south of the Mongolian capital
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In the summer of 2009 the Mongol and British Scouts began work on repainting the temple. Also, a collection of donations to help fund the restoration of the wooden fence with a stone wall.
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in Mongolia. Between 1929 and 1930, Tserendorj had his personal property confiscated by the state and in 1936, at the start of
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on various counter-revolutionary schemes, including sending messages for assistance to
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inscriptions on the rocks) continue to be revered as objects of worship.
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Restoration of the individual buildings began in 1990 shortly after the
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a protected site, making it one of the world's oldest protected areas.
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Chinese troops released him as they fled invading forces loyal to
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Affiliation
Tibetan Buddhism
Bogd Khan Mountain
Zuunmod
Töv Province
Mongolia
Manjusri Monastery is located in Mongolia
Geographic coordinates
47°45′52″N 106°59′32″E / 47.76444°N 106.99222°E / 47.76444; 106.99222
Style
Mongolian
gompa
Ulaanbaatar
Bogd Khan Mountain

Mañjuśrī
Bodhisattva
Jebtsundamba Khutuktu
Bogd Khan
Bogd Khan
occupying
Roman von Ungern-Sternberg
Manzushir Khutagt Sambadondogiin Tserendorj
Mongolian Revolution of 1921
Bogd Khan
Japan
institutional Buddhism
Stalinist purges
Khorloogiin Choibalsan

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