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SUSAN C. BYRNE sidewall opposite the visitors’ chairs next to the lama’s desk, there was a bookcase with many books and more photographs of his teachers. His wife sat in on the interview interjecting when she felt her husband’s answers were not exact enough: she seemed keen to stress that her husband had attended the first (out of town) revival of Khögshin khüree not the one in the city centre. There are three buildings in the fenced enclosure: the Jergiitin’s room; a brick built square temple with a well-furnished interior including a very elaborate balin; an administration building where followers order prayers from an extensive list each with a price and a small shop with a sparse collection of religious accessories for sale. Anew ger-shaped brick temple was being built. I was told there were eight monks in the temple all living locally with three of them having completed higher Buddhist studies in Mongolia. The Third Revival of Khögshin Khüree on Sergelen Hill, Baganuur, 2013 The leader of the third revival (Informant 3) is the young monk now a young man previously mentioned who joined the first revival, Yengar Shaddüwdarjaalin, as a boy. This newish temple is set in a spacious walled complex with a small square light-offering temple on the left of the entrance with a line of prayer wheels next to it. Opposite the entrance is a brick ger-shaped temple building and the right of this is a rectangular brick building housing the temple head’s room, the monks’ room and a room where followers order prayers. 36
