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At the beginning of the 20th century, Russia played a key role in establishing Mongolia's independence from China. [1] To honor this contribution, the Order of the Vajra (translated as the “Order of the Precious Rod”) was created for Mongolian nobility and foreigners, the latter were almost exclusively Russians. [1]
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A map of Dzungaria, brought to Sweden by Johan Gustaf Renat. Mongolian manuscript maps usually mapped administrative divisions (leagues, banners or aimags) of Mongolia during the Qing dynasty. They gave a bird's eye view of the area depicted, making them somewhat similar to pictorial maps. Such manuscript maps have been used for official ...
The vajra is often traditionally employed in tantric rituals in combination with the bell or ghanta; symbolically, the vajra may represent method as well as great bliss and the bell stands for wisdom, specifically the wisdom realizing emptiness. The union of the two sets of spokes at the center of the wheel is said to symbolize the unity of ...
English: Coat of Arms of Övörkhangai Aimag in Mongolia. No official blason found. Based on a lotos; Base wrapped in a khadag, two small garlands at the top; Main piece is the great Stupa of Erdene Zuu; A crossed Vajra in front; The name Övörkhangai, left in folded style Mongolian script, right in Soyombo script
Yamantaka is the "destroyer of death" deity in Vajrayana Buddhism, above riding a water buffalo. Carved cliff relief of Yamāntaka, one out of a set depicting the Ten Wisdom Kings, at the Dazu Rock Carvings in Chongqing, China. 7th century.
According to the "Pavilion of Vajra Peak and all its Yogas and Yogins Sutra" with the abbreviated name of the "Yogins Sutra" (likely an apocryphal work attributed to the great Buddhist patriarch Vajrabodhi) Rāgarāja represents the state at which harnessed sexual excitement or agitation—which are otherwise decried as defilements—are seen ...
Stupas around Erdene Zuu Monastery in Karakorum. Karakorum (Khalkha Mongolian: Хархорум, Kharkhorum; Mongolian script: ᠬᠠᠷᠠᠬᠣᠷᠣᠮ, Qaraqorum) was the capital of the Mongol Empire between 1235 and 1260 and of the Northern Yuan dynasty in the late 14th and 15th centuries.