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Gesar Süm
Utvtj vob
Horoscope temple and Buddhist High school.

Named after the mythical Tibetan king Gesar. Located at the east side of Gandan, and officially a part of it. In the back of the compound there are classrooms where young monks are being educated. On the compound there are also a shop and a guanz, where the menu includes khuushuur and buuz. There are no resident monks at Gesar Süm, the main activity on the monastery is the teaching of young lama´s. In the main temple and some gers people on the compound come for medical and spiritual consult.  

Bat Erdene is teacher is one of the teachers at Gesar Süm. On Monday October 15 2001 I witnessed one of his classes. There were two groups of around ten students in two classrooms. He told me about 40% of the students come from Ulaanbaatar and the rest come from the countryside. The ones from the countryside probably life with some of their relatives here in the city, while the other ones live at their homes. 

It used to be a Chinese Chan Buddhist Gao-Si-La temple. Because of their blue robes they were referred to as the blue religion. The name Gao-Si-La was confused by the Mongolian with Gesar, which would explain the current name.

03-10-2002  Mongoluls.Net  info@mongoluls.net