Mongolia's Culture and Society

Politics & Social Sciences

Hyer, Paul

Jagchid, Sechin

Social Sciences

Dawson Publishing,Folkestone

Physical description; xviii, 203 p. : map ; 24 cm. Subject; Kanjurwa Khutughtu 1914-1978.

A Mongolian Living Buddha: Biography of the Kanjurwa Khutughtu

Biographies & Memoirs

State Univ of New York Pr

The Khutughtus were highly ranked in the Lama Buddhist hierarchy. Considered equal to or higher than secular princes, they wielded great influence in both ecclesiastical and secular life in Inner Mongolia until the end of World War II. The career of the Kanjurwa Khughtu (1914-1980) covers an especially important period in Inner Mongolia. He was born soon after the Chinese Republican Revolution and the painful years of Mongolia’s Independence Movement. He saw the period of war lords in China, followed by the struggles for Chinese unification, the rise of the Kuowuntany party and the establishment of the Central Government in Nanking. Notable in this period was the spectacular rise of the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Movement. The communist conquest of China had a decisive impact on the Kanjurwa’s career and resulted in his flight to Taiwan, where he remained until his death. This unique work grew out of a two-year series of Mongolian-language interviews with the Kanjurwa, taped at his monastic residence.

A Mongolian Living Buddha

Mongolia's Culture And Society

Book by Jagchid, Sechin and Paul Hyer

Religion & Spirituality

Westview Press

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