Bogd Khan

The Bogd Khan (Mongolian Богд хаан ), Ngawang Lobsang Chokyi full name Nyima Tenzin Wangchuk (Mongolian Агван лувсан чойжинн ямданзан ванчүг, Agwan Luwsan Tschoidschin Jamdanzan Wantschüg; Tibetan wylie: dbang blo bzang chos kyi ngag nyi ma bstan 'dzin dbang phyug, also Bogd Jebtsun Damba Hutuchtu * 1869/1870 in Lhasa, † April 17, 1924 (20 April 1924) in Urga ) was the eighth Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu, so the religious leader of Buddhism in Mongolia. After the collapse of the Qing dynasty, he was appointed in December 1911 Bogd Khan, the ruler of the now independent Outer Mongolia. Although he was a lama, he had a wife, Dondogdulam, which became known as " Ekh Dagina " and 1923 died.

Life

The Bogd Khan was born in 1869 or 1870 after the death of the seventh Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu, ie, the spiritual leader of Mongolia, in Lhasa in Tibet. After the Russian Orientalist Alexei Matveyitch Posdnejew he spent the first years of his life with his mother in the Potala Palace, and soon came out to Urga, now Ulaanbaatar.

After the collapse of the Qing dynasty, he was raised on December 29, 1911 or December 1, 1911 to the Khan, so the ruler of the now independent Outer Mongolia. Today, are some buildings, such as the Winter Palace of Bogd Khan Ulan Baator of his reign.

As Chinese troops occupied Mongolia in 1919, the Bogd Khan was deposed and put under house arrest. After the Russian monarchist Roman von Ungern -Sternberg submitted in 1921 parts of Mongolia, Bogd Khan he could bring under his control and on again sat as a puppet.

By cited by Damdin Sükhbaatar communist revolutionaries of the Mongolian People's Army, the brief reign of terror von Ungern -Sternberg was terminated and converted to Mongolia in a communist state; the Bogd Khan was tolerated by the Mongolian Revolutionary People's Party and remained with restricted access rights until his death on April 17, 1924 (20 April 1924) in office. 1929 forbade the government's search for a new Trülku, ie a successor to the Bogd Khan.

Tibetan lamas later explained, was born in Lhasa in 1932 Jampel Namdröl Chokyi Gyeltshen was a reincarnation of Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu. After the end of communism in Mongolia was officially confirmed this in 1990 by Tenzin Gyatsho, the 14th Dalai Lama, the ninth Jebtsundamba Khutukhtu, so as spiritual leader of the Mongolian Buddhists.