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Zaya Pandita
Zaya Pandita Namkhai Gyatso was an Oirat Buddhist monk and scholar who studied in Tibet and returned to the western Mongols in 1639 as a missionary. In 1648 he created the Clear script, an adaptation of the Mongolian alphabet that recorded Oirat speech more precisely, and with his pupils he translated some two hundred Buddhist works into Oirat. He was a leading figure in spreading Gelug Buddhism among the Oirats.
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