Shanch Chiid
The Buddhist monastery Shanch Chiid ( Mongolian Шанх хийд ) is one of the oldest and most important monasteries in Mongolia . The name refers to the village of Shanch , in which the monastery is located, the Mongolian word Chiid means "monastery".
location
The monastery is located in the north of the Öwörchangai province in central Mongolia. The nearest city Kharkhorin is 25 km northwest.
history
Shanch Chiid Monastery was founded by Dsanabadsar in 1647 . In 1921 it consisted of around 20 buildings in which around 1,500 monks lived.
In 1937 the complex was largely destroyed during the Stalinist terror in Mongolia and numerous monks were deported to Siberia . The main temple, built in the middle of the 18th century, and a few other buildings were preserved and served as warehouses in the Mongolian People's Republic .
Since the beginning of the 1990s, Schankh Khiid has been used as a monastery again. The rebuilding took place on the initiative and with the support of monks who survived the communist excess of violence in the 1930s.
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Marion Wisotzki: Mongolia. Trescher, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-89794-167-0 , p. 196.
- ↑ Michael Kohn: Mongolia. Lonely Planet, London 2008, ISBN 978-1-74104-578-9 , p. 119.
- ↑ Michael Kohn: Mongolia. 2008, p. 120.