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1840 printing of the Book of Jeremiah in Mongolian script. The earliest preserved translation of the Bible into the Mongolian language dates to 1827, but there is a written record of what may perhaps have been a translation existing as early as 1305.
Inner Mongolia Bible School (formerly Inner Mongolia Training Class) was founded in 1987. [7] Inner Mongolia has more than 170,000 Protestants and over 1,000 official churches. [8] Tongsun Street Church was started with the help of Swedish missionaries around 1900. [9]
Historically, much of Europe had been ruled by Turkish and Mongolian tribes both of which originated in Mongolia. The Eastern Roman Empire was conquered by the Ottoman Turks in the 15th century. Western Catholicism was first introduced in the Middle Ages , primarily through Franciscan and Dominican missionaries, sent to the Mongol court in ...
Hulagu Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Ilkhanate, seated with his Eastern Christian queen Doquz Khatun of the Keraites. In modern times the Mongols are primarily Tibetan Buddhists, but in previous eras, especially during the time of the Mongol empire (13th–14th centuries), they were primarily shamanist, and had a substantial minority of Christians, many of whom were in ...
Isaac Jacob Schmidt is generally regarded as the "founder" of Mongolian studies as an academic discipline. [2] Schmidt, a native of Amsterdam who emigrated to Russia on account of the French invasion, began his exposure to the Mongolic languages as a missionary of the Moravian Church among the Kalmyks, and translated the Gospel of Matthew into the Kalmyk language.
A well preserved example is found in Kublai Khan's 1261 decree in Mongolian appointing the elder of the Shaolin Monastery. [ 2 ] [ note 1 ] In the Mongol Empire, Buddhist , Christian , Confucian , Daoist and Muslim priests, monks and scholars (later Jewish clergy) were initially exempted from all kinds of taxes and forced labor.
Mongolian National Library (Mongolian: Монгол Улсын Үндэсний Номын Сан) located in Sükhbaatar District, Ulaanbaatar, is the largest and oldest library in Mongolia. It houses over three million books and publications, one million of which are rare and valuable books, sutras and manuscripts, including the world's only ...
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