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SUSAN C. BYRNE
When I visited Baganuur, I guickly discovered that there were, in fact, four Buddhist
temples in the city all following the Gelugpa tradition: one is rarely used today; one
is undergoing renovation and two are very active. Three of these temples claim to be
revivals of Khögshin khüree with the link between all of them being Ven. Luwsan¬
damba (now deceased), who was a monk in the monastery before 1937. I visited all
four temples and interviewed the three living Temple Heads (tergüün) through an
interpreter. (Chimedtsogoo Chimeddawaa who worked as a translator in a Buddhist
Centre in Mongolia for many years translated these interviews into English.)'?
2 The Glossary on www.mongoliantemples.org compiled by Krisztina Teleki and Zsuzsa Majer has been
used as a guide for the spelling of Mongolian words.
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