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Shireet Tsagaan Nuur is located 151 miles west-southwest of Ulaan Baatar in Ovorkhangai Aimag. where the four-year old Zanabazar was given the title of Bogd Gegen in 1639. |
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Shireet Tsagaan Nuur (White Throne Lake) is surrounded on three sides by the sand dune belt known as the Mongol Els. |
The now almost dry lake bed of Shireet Tsagaan Nuur. In Zanabazar's time there was probably a sizable lake here. |
Looking up toward the ovoos from the shoreline of the old lake. Zanabazar's ger would have appeared as if on a high throne. |
Ovoo marking the spot of Zanbazar's ger when he attended the ceremony naming him the first Bogd Gegen. The mountain Ikh Mongol Uul, which encloses the site on the fourth side, can be seen in the background (Location: N47º09.327 / E103º54.575). |
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Small ovoo, looking down toward Shireet Tsagaan Nuur |
Recent monument commemorating the 360th anniversary of the naming of the first Bogd Gegen. |
Front of the Monument with Old Mongolian Script |
The Soyombo Symbol at the top was designed by Zanabazar. It is now found on Mongolian money and many other places. |
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