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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. Luwsandamba (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. 26
