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BABY CLOTHES AND OTHER POSSESSIONS OF ÖNDÖR GEGEEN DSANABADSAR
— the object with turquoise”’ of Öndör gegen: 1, with a small longish socket
— gun: 2
— ritual dagger talisman: |
— one-way [prayer] wheel with silver case: 1, with a brown sandalwood holder with
silver case
The seal of the Ministry of Ecclesiastic Affairs.”
Such inventories of 30 temples in Urga are available in the National Library and
National Archives of Mongolia. The list of the Dalai éj yurt temple indicates the
historical importance of the content of the cases. However, it is not sure if any of
these valuable items have survived for today as their stories after 1918 are unknown.
S. Gonéig monk (1909-2015) of Gandantegéenlin Monastery who resided in Siiténi
aimag at Gandan remembered a temple called Dalai &jin dugan in Süteni aimag, where
many children used to jangle. However, he could not recall whether Dsanabadsar’s stuff
were kept there in the 1930’s, “perhaps a round cap of Dsanabadsar.”
An archival file written in 1938 lists certain buildings of Gandan and Jün Xürg,
the two monastic parts of Urga that were demolished and transferred to different
organizations by the Ministry of Interior in 1938. According to these files,” the
buildings of Siiténi aimag were transferred to the Central Committee of the Party, the
Government of Mongolia on 14 October 1938. The text mentions a temple building,
two large buildings, two middle-size buildings, a wooden yurt with clay, a wooden yurt
and its entrance, a courtyard with four gates and entrances, and also wooden boxes.
The further story of the buildings and the equipment is unknown.
DSANABADSAR’S ITEMS AVAILABLE TODAY
The Bogds used to inherit the books and other possessions of their previous incarna¬
tions. Many of the belongings of the Eighth Bogd Jawjandamba xutagt were sold on
auctions after his passing away in 1924, whilst others were transferred to his Green
Palace from his other palaces. People living in the countryside hided valuable objects
during the monastery demolitions, and offered them to monasteries and museums
after the democratic changes in 1990. In these ways a few valuable possessions of
Dsanabadsar remained for today in and around the monastic sites related to him: Urga,
Erdene Ji, Bariin xiiré, Jin xiiré, Towx6n, Amarbayasgalant, Dambadarja, Sar’ dagin
x1d, and others.
The identification of this object requires further research.
Teleki, Krisztina: Introduction to the Tibetan and Mongolian Inventories of Urga’s Temples. Rocznik
Orientalistyczny LXVI (2). Warsaw 2015, pp. 180-205. Teleki, Krisztina: Introduction...
National Archives of Mongolia, X-1, D-6, 401. Gandan xüreni süm dugan ba xasä baisingüdig Dotod
yämnäs 28 ond alban gajriidad Siljiilsen tuxai aktiid (1938), p. 5.
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