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... Manchu 340 The 20th century 341 Bibliography 342 Physical and human geography THE LAND Relief . Mongolia can be divided into three major topo- graphic zones : the fingerlike mountain ridges that thrust into the northern and western ...
... Manchu 340 The 20th century 341 Bibliography 342 Physical and human geography THE LAND Relief . Mongolia can be divided into three major topo- graphic zones : the fingerlike mountain ridges that thrust into the northern and western ...
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... Manchu . Revival of Buddhism . During this period there was a second flowering of Buddhism among the Mongols . In the reign of Kublai , Buddhism in its Tibetan form had been fashionable at court and among some of the Mon- gol ...
... Manchu . Revival of Buddhism . During this period there was a second flowering of Buddhism among the Mongols . In the reign of Kublai , Buddhism in its Tibetan form had been fashionable at court and among some of the Mon- gol ...
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... Manchu rule in western Khalkha in the 1750s led by a noble named Chingunjav . Chingunjav was a coconspirator with an Oyrat leader named Amur- sana , who in turn had first submitted to the Manchu and then rebelled against them . But this ...
... Manchu rule in western Khalkha in the 1750s led by a noble named Chingunjav . Chingunjav was a coconspirator with an Oyrat leader named Amur- sana , who in turn had first submitted to the Manchu and then rebelled against them . But this ...
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