Ninth Bogd gets Mongolian citizenship
Jambalnamdalchoijijantsan, the reincarnated Ninth Bogd (the “living Buddha”) is now a Mongolian citizen. Born in Tibet in 1932, he was identified as the reincarnation of the Eighth Bogd when he was four years old.
He stayed away from Mongolia as he grew up and finally went to Dharamsala in India in 1961. The Dalai Lama, already there in exile, formally anointed him, under his seal, as the Ninth Bogd a year later.
His first opportunity to visit Mongolia arose in 1999 when he attended a religious conference in Khalimag. However, he had to cancel his plans as the Chinese leader Jiang Zemin would have been in the country at the same time. Finally he came last year in the autumn and returned for two months this year, at the invitation of the Gandantegchilen monastery when he received his Mongolian citizenship. He has since returned to Dharamsala and it is not clear where he will live from now on.
The Eighth Bogd Khaan, Javzundamba Khutagt, was brought out of a Chinese prison and proclaimed head of the theocratic government when Mongolia declared independence from China in 1911. He was reduced to a ceremonial figurehead with no real power when the People’s Government of Mongolia was declared in 1921. He died in 1924 and thereafter Mongolia became a republic, abolishing the institution of the Bogd Khaan.
Source: Udriin Sonin
He stayed away from Mongolia as he grew up and finally went to Dharamsala in India in 1961. The Dalai Lama, already there in exile, formally anointed him, under his seal, as the Ninth Bogd a year later.
His first opportunity to visit Mongolia arose in 1999 when he attended a religious conference in Khalimag. However, he had to cancel his plans as the Chinese leader Jiang Zemin would have been in the country at the same time. Finally he came last year in the autumn and returned for two months this year, at the invitation of the Gandantegchilen monastery when he received his Mongolian citizenship. He has since returned to Dharamsala and it is not clear where he will live from now on.
The Eighth Bogd Khaan, Javzundamba Khutagt, was brought out of a Chinese prison and proclaimed head of the theocratic government when Mongolia declared independence from China in 1911. He was reduced to a ceremonial figurehead with no real power when the People’s Government of Mongolia was declared in 1921. He died in 1924 and thereafter Mongolia became a republic, abolishing the institution of the Bogd Khaan.
Source: Udriin Sonin
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