Historic evidence shows us that with the loss of the last Bogd Khan, we also lost our last aristocrats, domestic as well as foreign. We lost also our independence and our third neighbor. The history of that time can give us a lesson for the future.
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The last Bogd Khan and the lost aristocrats of Mongolia
The last Bogd Khan and the lost aristocrats of Mongolia
{mosimage}Historic evidence shows us that with the loss of the last Bogd Khan, we also lost our last aristocrats, domestic as well as foreign. We lost also our independence and our third neighbor. The history of that time can give us a lesson for the future. On December 1, 1911, Outer Mongolia in effect proclaimed its independence on the basis that its allegiance had been to Manchuria, not to China.
Queen Manduhai
Manduhai Tsetsen Hatan or Manduhai the Wise Queen's role in Mongolian history was in ensuring Batmunkh Dayan Khan's success. Grand Khan Manduul, Genghis Khan's twenty-seventh successor, died in 1467 as the result of a war against his great-nephew and their Bold Jonon , and the latter in his turn was assassinated before he could be proclaimed khan (1470).
Budda Zanabazar
Zanabazar was the 16th Incarnation of Javzandamba. The name Zanabazar, a combination of the word zana, which is derived from a Sanskrit word meaning "knowledge" or "wisdom", and the word bazar, meaning "thunderbolt". Thus in English his name might be rendered "thunderbolt of wisdom".
Bogd Khan
With the fall of the Manchu dynasty in 1911, the Mongolians proclaimed their independence in December. Fighting against the Chinese, with some aid from the Russians (which was given belatedly), was to continue until August of 1912.
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