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AgataBareja-Starzyńska,ByambaaRagchaa
UniversityofWarsaw
NotesontheSurvivalofBuddhism
inCommunistMongolia(1921–1989)
Introduction
Research1onBuddhisminMongoliaduringitscommunistpastbecamepossi-
bleonlyafterthecollapseofthecommunistregime.Oneofthefirstprojects
tostudythepastandpresentstateofBuddhisminMongoliawasconductedby
scholarsfromPolandandNorway.InitiatedbyAgataBareja-Starzyńskain1997,
itresultedintheresearchgrantflRevivalofBuddhisminMongoliaafter1990”
inthefollowingyears.2In1998thegroupofscholarsengagedinfieldworkfor
theprojectinthecentralandnorthernMongolianlandsconsistedofHanna
HavnevikfromtheUniversityofOsloandthreescholarsfromtheUniversityof
Warsaw:AgataBareja-Starzyńska,MarekMejor,andThuptenKungaChashab,
aswellastheircollaboratorinUlanBator,ByambaaRagchaafromtheLibrary
oftheGandategchenlinMonastery.Theresultsoftheirworkwerepresentedin
apaperpublishedinPrzeglądOrientalistycznyin1999whichlaidthefoundation
forfurtherresearch.Someofthefindingsfromthatstudyhavealsobeenusedin
thepresenttext,connectingitwiththeworkofourcelebratedcolleague,Marek
Mejor,whosecontributiontothestudyofBuddhisminMongoliashouldbeduly
acknowledged.
1TheauthorswouldliketothankRobertBarnettforhisvaluableimprovementsandcor-
rectingtheEnglishlanguageofthepaper.Needlesstosay,theauthorstakeresponsibility
forallerrorsandinaccuracies.
2ResearchontherevivalofBuddhismafter1990wasconductedtogetherwithHanna
HavnevikandByambaaRagchaa,andwiththeassistanceofGanzorigDavaa-Ochir,in
Mongolia(1998,2001)withfinancialsupportfromtheInstituteofComparativeResearch
inHumanCulture,Oslo,theFridjofNansenFoundation,theUniversityofWarsaw,and
theNorwegianResearchCouncil.
