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SUSAN C. BYRNE to compare and contrast the situation found in Baganuur in 2016 as well as my own experience of visiting revived temples from 1993 to the present.* The paper will also examine some of the issues impacting on the revival as raised by the temple heads and their views on the state of Buddhism in Mongolia twenty-five years after it was re-introduced. Khögshin Khüree, Möngönmor’t District, Töw Province The full history of Khögshin khüree, the name most commonly used by locals, also known as Kherlengiin Dsüün khüree and Öwgön khüree,* remains to be written although partial accounts exist in a number of sources. It is known that the original founder of this monastery, Chin Wan Gombodorj, gifted it in 1729 to the young Second Bogd Gegeen (1724-1757) who renamed it Yengar Shaddüwdarjaalin and this became his principal residence: [kh khiiree. One source is in the book,® which draws its information on monasteries from secret reports written by monks and others across Mongolia in the late 1930s presently stored in the Archives of the General Intelligence Office. The account of Khégshin khiiree was written by a group of monks in June 1937: “tsorj Rentsenjaw, vice monk Nyamtseren, 7sogchin gesgiii Ochir, Namjil, Dagwa, Chuluundor], typist Tsewenjav, Batstikh wrote the story.” These monks were forced to get together and write “the account in 15 days by searching through old accounts, interviewing old people and recounting old stories.” The foundation date for Khégshin khiiree is variously given as 1665, 1701 and 1711.’ The monastery, as was common practice in Mongolia from the 17" century, moved several times before settling above the River Kherlen at the foot of the Togos Khairkhan Mountain. It became one of the largest religious centres in Central Mongolia and is said to have had over 1,460 monks at its height in 1862 with six branches. 3 T worked with Tibet Foundation, a London based charity from 1993 to 2005 on their Buddhism in Mongolia programme and was an initiator of the Documentation of Mongolian Monasteries Project (DOMM) conducted in 2007. I visited many old and active monasteries in Ulaanbaatar and in different regions of Mongolia whenever the opportunity arose. 4 Rinéen, B. — Maidar, D.: Ugsatni sudlal xel Sinjlelin atlas. Ulanbatar 1979, 445. Erdenebileg, B. (ed.): Mongolin stim xidin tiixés ... (Barimtin emxtgel). (Second edition). Tagnilin yerönxi gajar, Tusgai arxiw, Ulanbatar 2014; Pozdnjejev, A. M.: Mongolija i mongoly. Rjezultaty pojezdki v Mongoliju, ispolnenniyje v 1892-93 gg. Vol. 2. Sankt-Petersburg 1896-1898; Chuluun, S. — Yusupova, T. I. (eds.): Klyagina-Kondratiyeva, M. L.: Mongolian Buddhist Culture: A Study of Monasteries and Temples in Khentii and Khangai. National Museum of Ethnology (Senri Ethnological Reports 113), Osaka 2013; Piirew, O. — Oyiinbileg, R.: Téw aimgin Möngönmor t sümin tüx. Ulanbatar 2003; DOMM TOMM 051 Khögshin khüree Additional Materials (http://www.mongoliantemples.org/ampdfs/%D0%A2%D3%A8%DO%IC%DO%9IC_057_AM.pdf). Erdenebileg, B.: Mongolin stim xidin tiixés, pp. 97-101. Cf. Pozdnjejev, A. M.: Mongolija i mongoly. 22
