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REFLECTIONS ON THE REVIVAL OF KHÖGSHIN KHÜREE would have easy access to daily chanting and the traditional cycle of ceremonies and püjas as well as monks to minister to them. It seems that some of the young novice monks from the first revival, Yengar Shaddiiwdarjaalin, attended this second temple in the years that followed as Informant 1 refers to them as his disciples and, in this way, claims the other two active temples in Baganuur are revivals of Khégshin khiiree. He explained to me: “After some time, I had quite many disciples and my disciples have built their own monasteries: Dashchoimbolin and Gundu Yondon Rawjaalin monasteries. The pijas and püja regulations at the three monasteries are exactly the same. Nothing changed, in other words they all follow traditional way of püja regulations.” In the summer of 2016 this temple was not active as it was undergoing renovation and Informant | was building a new Tsogchin hall to be able to accommodate more people than his temple would hold. He continues to minister to his many followers from his private room. His current monk community is ten young monks. 2: B "Fa Fig. 11. Second revival of Khögshin khüree, Ontsar Esheelin. S. Byrne, Baganuur, 2016. A New Foundation in Baganuur, 2007 Informant 2, who is now Temple Head of a thriving temple in the town, went to live in Baganuur with his young family in 2000. As Ulaanbaatar boy, he became amonk in 1994 in the Geser Temple of Gandan (later this became Badmayogo) and then went to study Astrology in Ivolginsky Datsan, Buryatia, where his teacher was Yeshe Lodo 33
