Date and time:
2019-04-03 17:00 - 2019-04-03 19:00
Location:
VU Filosofijos fakultetas, Universiteto g. 9, Vilnius
During the socialist period, the Mongolian People’s Republic abolished the system of reincarnated lamas. The highest reincarnated lama in pre-socialist period was the Eighth Bogd Jebtsundamba Khutugtu (1870-1924), the first and the last temporal and religious leader of Mongolia. In the place of his religious leadership, the socialist government installed an abbot of Gandantegchenling Buddhist monastery as a head of Mongolian Buddhism.
Yet, after the collapse of socialism in Mongolia in 1990, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama officially recognized the reincarnation of the Eighth Bogd Jebtsundamba Khutugtu in 1991, whose reincarnation was banned to search by the socialist government in 1929.
Interestingly, few days before the Dalai Lama’s announcement, Mongolian monastics elected the abbot of Gandantegchenling monastery as the head of Mongolian Buddhism. Thus, a question of who is the leader of Mongolian Buddhism became unavoidable. Socialist-created abbot, a Mongolian citizen in Ulaanbaatar, or pre-socialist Jebtsundamba Khutugtu, a Tibetan refugee in India? Dr. Lhagvademchig will discuss whether this question, which emerged in 1991, has been answered by 2019.
Lecture will be held at the Faculty of Philosophy (Universiteto str. 9), room 201.
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