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REFLECTIONS ON THE PHILOSOPHICAL VIEWS
AND WoRKS BY Two MONGOLIAN BUDDHIST
THINKERS (17™ AND 20™ CENTURIES)
T. Bulgan
National University of Mongolia, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies;
Dsanabadsar University, Gandantegchenling Monastery, Ulaanbaatar
I have great pleasure and honor to participate in the Budapest international seminar
under the great motto “Mongolian Buddhism: past, present and future” hosted by the
Eötvös Lorand University, the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Hungarian scien¬
tific research organizations on the blissful occasion of the 380" anniversary of Ondér
Gegeen Dsanabadsar (Khal. Ondér gegén Janabajar), the Mongolian Great thinker
and spiritual leader of the 17-18" centuries, held in Budapest, the beautiful capital
city of Hungary.
I would like to express my special thanks and gratitude to Professor Birtalan Agnes
and Dr. Dezső Tamás, Dr. Teleki Krisztina, and to the other members of the Hungarian
organizing committee of this international conference, all those who worked hard and
made a great contribution to organize this workshop successfully.
On this occasion, I would like to extend my sincere thanks to all distinguished
scholars, professors from Hungary and foreign countries, who gathered here in Buda¬
pest for this great forum on all aspects of Mongolian studies, like religion, history and
culture, and who dedicated much time of their life to a great deal of study and work on
this field of Mongolian Buddhism, irrespective of their own personal beliefs.
My presentation aims at giving a brief analysis of the philosophical works and views
of two Mongolian Buddhist scholars who lived in the 16" and 20" centuries.
Firstly, I would like to pay homage to the great Ondér Gegeen Dsanabadsar (1635—
1723) who was the spiritual leader of Mongolian Buddhism, a great thinker, embodi¬
ment of a living Buddha of Mongolian Buddhism in the 3" period in the history of
Mongolian Buddhism, and one of the prominent masters of Mongolian culture in the
16-17" centuries.
Dsanabadsar or the first Jebzundamba was a great spiritual leader, wise scholar, states¬
man, artist and religious teacher of Mongolia. He was a direct descendent of Chingis
Khan and from this genetic source inherited his talents as statesman. Meanwhile, many
scholars made and are making great contribution to study and learn on his marvellous
works on linguistic, art, spiritual, cultural as well as philosophical identities.
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