Amarbayasgalant Monastery

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The stone tablet inside one of the pavilions. The text, written by Manchu emperor Ch'ien Lung, is in Old Mongolian.

Excerpt of the inscription

 

The main temple

 

Another view of the main temple

 

Front of the main temple

 

Front of the main temple

 

Above the entrance to the main temple

 

Small statues decorated the eaves of the main temple. Most if not all of the originals were destroyed. These are reproductions.

 

More statues

 

Building which once contained the sharil, or mummified body of the Fourth Bodg Gegen (d.1813). The body was removed in 1937 and destroyed.

 

In 1990 a statue honoring the 4th Bogd Gegen was installed in the temple

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