Join us for an intimate evening with Mend-Ooyo Gombojav, Mongolia’s leading literary figure and naturalist. Mend-Ooyo is one of Mongolia’s most revered poets, the nation’s Poet Laureate, and a recipient of the Chinggis Khaan National Prize, Mongolia’s highest cultural honor.

This gathering centers a live reading with Mend-Ooyo, followed by conversation and audience Q&A. Deeply committed to keeping the nomadic spirit alive amid rapid modernization, his work is shaped by a deep relationship with land and informed by Buddhist contemplative traditions.
The evening will also feature a musical performance, meditation, and calligraphy—along with other tactile forms of creative expression—offering direct engagement with Mongolia’s living traditions. In Mongolia, both culture and creative expression are shaped by deep relationality—with land, ancestry, seasonality, and the living forces of the natural world. Mend-Ooyo’s work emerges from this lineage, where poetry is not separate from landscape, but a dialogue with it—revealing the intimacy between nature and mind.


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