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The Forbidden City, built between 1406 and 1420, served for 500 years (until the end of the imperial era in 1911) as the seat of all power in China, the throne of the Son of Heaven and the private residence of all the Ming and Qing dynasty emperors. The complex consists of 980 buildings with 8,707 bays of rooms and covers 720,000 m2 (7,800,000 sq ft).<br/><br/> The White Dagoba (Bai Ta) is a Tibetan Buddhist shrine built in 1651 to commemorate the first visit to Beijing by a Dalai Lama.
The Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar (1874–1923) was a high lamaist incarnation in northwestern Mongolia, and played a high-profile role in the country's independence movement. He served as Prime Minister twice, 1921 in Baron Ungern's puppet government, and 1922/23 under the MPRP. Damdinbazar was born in 1874 at Lake Oigon Nuur in the Nömrög district of present-day Zavkhan Aimag. His father Tserensodnom and mother Sonom were middle-class herders. In 1877 he was inaugurated as Jalkhanz Khutagt at Jalkhanzyn Khüree, in what is today Bürentogtokh Sum in Khövsgöl Aimag. From the ages of 16 to 20 he was instructed in Tibetan and Mongolian script, mathematics, astrology and religious matters and was a novice in a monastery at Ih Hüree.
The Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar (1874–1923) was a high lamaist incarnation in northwestern Mongolia, and played a high-profile role in the country's independence movement. He served as Prime Minister twice, 1921 in Baron Ungern's puppet government, and 1922/23 under the MPRP. Damdinbazar was born in 1874 at Lake Oigon Nuur in the Nömrög district of present-day Zavkhan Aimag. His father Tserensodnom and mother Sonom were middle-class herders. In 1877 he was inaugurated as Jalkhanz Khutagt at Jalkhanzyn Khüree, in what is today Bürentogtokh Sum in Khövsgöl Aimag. From the ages of 16 to 20 he was instructed in Tibetan and Mongolian script, mathematics, astrology and religious matters and was a novice in a monastery at Ih Hüree.
The Jalkhanz Khutagt Sodnomyn Damdinbazar (1874–1923) was a high lamaist incarnation in northwestern Mongolia, and played a high-profile role in the country's independence movement. He served as Prime Minister twice, 1921 in Baron Ungern's puppet government, and 1922/23 under the MPRP. Damdinbazar was born in 1874 at Lake Oigon Nuur in the Nömrög district of present-day Zavkhan Aimag. His father Tserensodnom and mother Sonom were middle-class herders. In 1877 he was inaugurated as Jalkhanz Khutagt at Jalkhanzyn Khüree, in what is today Bürentogtokh Sum in Khövsgöl Aimag. From the ages of 16 to 20 he was instructed in Tibetan and Mongolian script, mathematics, astrology and religious matters and was a novice in a monastery at Ih Hüree.