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The Eighth Jebtsundamba Khutugtu Bogd Khan, last monarchic ruler of Mongolia.

Mongolian Buddhism: The Bogd Khan was simultaneously religious and secular head of the Mongolian state until the 1920s. Ikh Huree, as Ulan Bator was then known, was the seat of the preeminent living Buddha of Mongolia (the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, also known as the Bogdo Gegen and later as Bogd Khan), who ranked third in the Lamaist-Buddhist ecclesiastical hierarchy, after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.
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Title:
The Eighth Jebtsundamba Khutugtu Bogd Khan, last monarchic ruler of Mongolia.
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Mongolian Buddhism: The Bogd Khan was simultaneously religious and secular head of the Mongolian state until the 1920s. Ikh Huree, as Ulan Bator was then known, was the seat of the preeminent living Buddha of Mongolia (the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, also known as the Bogdo Gegen and later as Bogd Khan), who ranked third in the Lamaist-Buddhist ecclesiastical hierarchy, after the Dalai Lama and the Panchen Lama.
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3660 x 4851 px | 50.8 MB
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31.0 x 41.1 cm | 12.2 x 16.2 in (300 dpi)