Unlike nationalist movements in Europe and Soviet Central Asia, Mongolia did not display a proclivity towards secularization. Rather, Tibetan Buddhism remained a key component of Mongol political institutions into the twentieth century.
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Introduction 1 The Mongols and Tibet: Origins of the “Patron-Priest” Relationship 3 The Manchus and the Mongols: Origins of the “Five Races” 7 Russia and the Mongols: Origins of Pan-Mongolism 11 Russia and the Buryats: The Link to Tibet 14 Qing “New Policies” and Assimilation 19 The Frontier Question in the Republic of China 21 Russia and China: The Fight for Outer Mongolia 25 Yuan and the Bogd Khan: The Fight for Inner Mongolia 29 Warlords and Bolsheviks: Outer Mongolia during the Bolshevik Revolution 33 The Panchen Lama and the Bolsheviks, Part I: The Soviet Union as Shambhala 37 The Panchen Lama and the Republicans: The Republic as Shambhala 41 The Panchen Lama and the Bolsheviks, Part II: Shambhala Lost 43 Conclusion 47
