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2003
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Inner Mongolia monastery architecture bouddhism Mongolia Mongolie Mongolie-Intérieure monastère bouddhismeSujets proches
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Isabelle Charleux, « Buddhist Monasteries in Southern Mongolia », HAL-SHS : histoire de l'art, ID : 10670/1.aismem
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At the beginning of the twentieth century, more than a thousand Buddhist monasteries of Tibeto-Mongol tradition were active in Southern Mongolia, now the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region in China. A century later, less than two hundred have survived. If we can only regret the massive destruction, the spared buildings still constitute a significant part of an important architectural tradition that began in the late sixteenth century. The architectural eclecticism of the monasteries shows a blending of various influences and an adaptation of pan-asiatic Tibetan and Chinese models to the local Mongolian communities.This original, remarkably varied and innovative architectural tradition deserves to be studied not only as the cultural heritage of a nomadic people but also for its importance in the history of Far Eastern Buddhist architecture.