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Gandantegchinlen Monastery (Mongolian: Гандантэгчэнлин хийд, Gandantegchenlin khiid), also known as Gandan Monastery, is a Buddhist monastery in Bayangol District, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. It was founded in 1809, closed amid persecutions in 1939, and from 1944 to 1989 was the country's only active monastery.
Mongolian artist and art historian N. Chultem identified three styles of traditional Mongolian architecture (Mongolian, Tibetan and Chinese), alone or in combination. Batu-Tsagaan (1654), designed by Zanabazar, was an early quadratic temple. The Dashchoilin Khiid monastery in Ulaanbaatar is an example of yurt
The Zanabazar Mongolian Institute of Buddhist Art is a part of the Gandantegchinlen Monastery in Ulaanbaatar. The monastery was destroyed in 1937 by the communists, as happened to around 1,000 other monasteries in that era as well. Pürevbat decided that the monastery had to be rebuilt again, in which he succeeded in the course of years with ...
Buddha statue in Borobudur (), the world's largest Buddhist temple.. Buddhist religious architecture developed in the Indian subcontinent.Three types of structures are associated with the religious architecture of early Buddhism: monasteries (), places to venerate relics (), and shrines or prayer halls (chaityas, also called chaitya grihas), which later came to be called temples in some places.
Since the late 1940s, one monastery, Gandan Monastery, with a community of 100 monks, was open in Ulaanbaatar. It was the country's sole monastery and was more for international display than functionality. [11]: 96 A few of the old monasteries survived as museums, and the Gandan Monastery served as a living museum and a tourist attraction. Its ...
At its height in the early 20th century the monastery was home to 2000 monks. Dorjjavyn Luvsansharav, a leader of the Mongolia People's Revolutionary Party during the violent Stalinist repressions in Mongolia, studied at the monastery between 1910 and 1921. In the late 1930s Luvsansharav directed a brutal persecution of the Buddhist Church in ...
Altar of 9th Jebtsundamba Khutughtu - the spiritual leader of the Gelug lineage among the Khalkha Mongols. Gandantegchinlen Monastery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. The culture of Mongolia has been shaped by the country's nomadic tradition and its position at the crossroads of various empires and civilizations.
In 1947, the temples were converted into museums and for the four decades that followed Gandantegchinlen Khiid Monastery became Mongolia's only functioning monastery. After the fall of communism in Mongolia in 1990, the monastery was turned over to the lamas and Erdene Zuu again became a place of worship. Today, Erdene Zuu remains an active ...