Oldal 414 [414]
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Lusos BELKA Each one of Jisl’s trips to Mongolia was different, was comprised of different goals and each progressed differently. The first trip in 1957—1958 was part of an overall trip to Asia, more than six months in duration, the main goal of which was to: “determine on site the conditions for the deployment of the Czechoslovak-Mongolian expedition, as had been suggested in 1956 by a member of the Mongolian Scientific Committee (equivalent to the Academy of Sciences) B. Rinchen, and as well as by a member of the Oriental Institute of the Academy of Sciences of Czechoslovakia, Pavel Poucha, in his memorandum submitted to the Archaeological Institute upon his return from Mongolia. That meant that I had to determine the position of the president of the Scientific Committee in terms of this enterprise as well as the degree of his potential involvement, and in the case of a favorable outcome, immediately select some areas of investigation. My further task was to open in Ulaanbaatar a promotional exhibition of the Czechoslovak Ministry of Education concerning Czechoslovak archaeological methods, which had been sent here in advance.””"” We can ascertain Jisl’s schedule by glancing at his itinerary after he returned, which is contained in the first report of his working trip to the Mongolian People’s Republic in 1957. Jisl was in the Mongolian People’s Republic from August 5" 1957, to September 5 1957, and then, after his travels in China, from February 10" to February 13" 1957: “August 6 — August II, 1957: Arrival with Khambalama, the abbot of the monastery. Viewing of Gandan Monastery and the ‘Lama’s Museum’ [Choijin Lama Monastery, LB] August 15 — August 18, 1957: Trip to the east by automobile with B. Rinchen. Viewing of the ruins of the fortress towns Zun Kherem and Bars Khoto August 19 — August 21, 1957: Ulaanbaatar. Photographs taken in the Lama’s Museum. Viewing of the Palace of Bogd Gegeen August 22 — September 1, 1957: Trip by automobile with the archaeologist Perlee ... Erdene Zuu Monastery.”!® The scientific culmination of Jisl’s activity in Asia was the first (and indeed the last) Czech-Mongolian archaeological expedition which studied the monument of prince Kiiltegin (8" century), located in the Orkhon River valley, about 380 km southwest of Ulaanbaatar. Jisl, Lumir: Zpräva z pracovni cesty do Mongolska, Cinske lidove republiky a Sovétského svazu, vykonané od 3. srpna 1957 do 19. unora 1958 [Report on study trip to the Mongolian People’s Republic, the Chinese People’s Republic, and the Soviet Union, August 3, 1957 — February 19, 1958]. Unpublished and undated typescript in Czech, Prague 1958, p. 6. Contained in Jisl, L.: Zprava z pracovni cesty [Report on study trip] 1958; the itinerary is on pp. 1-4. 412
