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Buddhist Monasteries in Southern Mongolia

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At the beginning of the twentieth century, more than a thousand Buddhist monasteries of Tibeto-Mongol tradition were active in Southern Mongolia, now the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in China. A century later, less than two hundred have survived. If we can only regret the massive destruction, the spared buildings still constitute a significant part of an important architectural tradition that began in the late sixteenth century.
The architectural eclecticism of the monasteries shows a blending of various influences and an adaptation of pan-asiatic Tibetan and Chinese models to the local Mongolian communities.
This original, remarkably varied and innovative architectural tradition deserves to be studied not only as the cultural heritage of a nomadic people but also for its importance in the history of Far Eastern Buddhist architecture.
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halshs-00409747, version 1 (12-08-2009)

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Isabelle Charleux. Buddhist Monasteries in Southern Mongolia. Pierre Pichard & François Lagirarde. The Buddhist Monastery. A cross-cultural Survey, Ecole Française d'Extrême-Orient, 2003, pp.351-390, 2003. ⟨halshs-00409747⟩
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