Z.Altangerel (1960-2019)

Z.Altangerel, the seventh-generation tahilch, or curator, of the memory of the fifth Noyon Khutagt of the Gobi, Danzanravjaa (1803-1856), has left this world and passed away into Shambhala. Altangerel, whose role was to protect and safeguard the material, spiritual and intellectual legacy of Danzanravjaa for future generations, set an example to his successor by his deep faith that what remained from the great work of a single life on this earth would welcome to the paradise of Shambhala where the wisdom of the holy ones resides.
Altangerel absorbed the secrets of spiritual culture under the wise and austere tutelage of his grandfather, the previous tahilch Tüdev, and was someone who inherited through succession the wisdom which had been buried in boxes beneath the earth during the late 1930s, when Buddhism was suppressed in Mongolia. In truth, it was the fame and wisdom of this holy man from Dornogov which made the combined effort of Altangerel, who had the responsibility of reviving Danzanravjaa’s legacy, and the politician and writer L.Odonchimed so successful. The flourishing of popular understanding about Danzanravjaa in 1990, the year in which Mongolia realized its democratic society, and the revival of the pure wisdom of Hamarin Hiid and Shambhala, was a wonderful development for Buddhist culture in the world. Today, Hamarin Hiid and Shambhala are a renowned worldwide brand, not only associated with Mongolia, but also with the Gobi.