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Shadavdarjaliin Khiid

Mongolia


Shadavdarjaliin Khiid, in the western part of town near the Sports Palace, is a freshly painted, walled temple complex with some ovoo (shamanistic offering) trees and a dozen monks. The original monastery in this area was built in 1660 and housed the first Buddhist philosophy school in Mongolia; at its peak, before the Stalinist purges of 1938, the monastery was home to more than 1000 monks.


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