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REFLECTIONS ON THE REVIVAL OF KHÖGSHIN KHÜREE trip, whose parents had a small resort in the area, had never visited the site and only vaguely knew where it was.) The only marker on the site is a lopsided board placed there by men who had been monks in the monastery prior to 1937. It is ahomage to Öndör Gegeen Dsanabadsar whose second reincarnation is considered the founder of the monastery: "First Bogd educator, Öndör Gegeen, we worship you. Your disciples Ombo, Sandar, Jamsran." I learnt more about the layout of the monastery and the true size of the site from a Bristol University research team doing archaeological research there. A Google Earth image clearly shows the extent of the built area in the traditional upside down U-shaped outline of Mongolian style monastic complexes with the temples in the centre and lines of monks’ residences fanning out from the core on the east, north and west sides with the south (always the main gateway way to a monastery) left open. The temple outlines on Google Earth were compared with a sketch plan of the monastery made in 1929 by M. I. Klyagina-Kondratiyeva, a Russian researcher: it was an almost exact match." 11 Chuluun, S. — Yusupova T. I.: K/yagina-Kondratiyeva ..., p. 182. 25
