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Zanabazar
Zanabazar was a Mongolian Buddhist leader and artist, the son of the Tüsheet Khan Gombodorj and the first Jebtsundamba Khutughtu, head of Buddhism in Khalkha. Trained in Tibet, he founded monasteries and in 1686 devised the Soyombo script. In 1691 he led the Khalkha princes in submitting to the Qing Kangxi Emperor at Dolon Nor. His gilded bronze sculptures of Buddhist deities are regarded as masterpieces of Mongolian art.
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