Life of Zanabazar  Yeson Zuil: Birthplace of Zanabazar Yeson Zuil is located in Ovorkhangai Aimag, about 27 miles southeast of the sum center of the same name. The name refers to nine (yeson) types or kinds (zuil) of springs that were once found here. According to locals these springs have since dried up. It was here that according to legend Avtai Khan met a person that he believed to be the Third Dalai Lama. This person told Avtai to place a monument here because later something very important would happen on this spot. In 1635, Zanabazar, Avtai's great-grandson, was born here.

Yeson Zuil area. The small temple in center is near where Zanabazar was believed to have been born.

The ruins of the so-called Eight Stupa Temple, allegedly built at the site of Avtai's original monument and at or near the birthplace of Zanabazar. Some sources claim Zanabazar was born right here, while others claim that he was born about a mile and half away, behind a small pond, and that his umbilical cord was buried here. The temple itself was destroyed in the late 1930s.

About one hundred yards from the ruins of the Eight Stupa Temple a new temple was built in 2002 to mark the spot of Zanabazar's birth

About a mile from the new temple is the Dashgungaa Dejid Temple, built on the site of an old monastery by the same name which was destroyed in the late 1930s. This new temple was built in the early 1990s. A painting and statue of Zanabazar were placed in the temple in 1995 to commemorate the 380th anniversary of Zanabazar's birth.

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