A Monastic Administrator

Hasbagan is the principal administrator of the Dashchoilin monastery in Ejine. Educated in a Buddhist college in Inner Mongolia he became a monk in the monastery in 1997. As an administrator of the monastery, he is paid a salary by the Bureau of Religion of the Ejine banner. His ancestors worked for Torghut nobles in the past, his grandfather once being a meiren (military commander) of the banner when Prince Lhavangjav was in power. He consequently suffered during the Cultural Revolution.

Keywords

Ejine banner, Dashchoilin monastery, administrative system

Publisher

Kalmyk Cultural Heritage Documentation Project, University of Cambridge

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Sponsored by Arcadia Fund, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin

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Inner Mongolia