Studies On The Relationship Between The Two Buddhist Temples Of The Dolon-nuur And The Juungar Banner (1791—1921)

Kangxi and Yong Zheng,the emperors of the Qing dynasty, built Hoh Temple and Shar temple in Dolon-nuur, for the sake of implementing the policy which supporting Buddhism strongly, also ordered each banner of Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia dispatch two Lama to these Buddhist Temples, besides decided let Mongol banners pay the expenses which needed in dispatching, the temple’s building, repairing affair and the expenses of Lama’s daily life. However, with the changes of the Qing dynasty’s Mongolian policy, the transition and destitution of Mongolian society, the Mongol banners had been starting to default Lama’s living expenses. This article utilized the archives of Juungar banner’s government, do research in Juungar banner’s defaulting problems, and investigate it’s historical reason. This is very significant to scholarly studies of China modern history.This article consists of three part:preface, main text(three chapters), conclusion. The part of preface resumes the significance and reason of the topic, the overview of research situation,main innovation and historical materials that used in this paper. The first chapter discusses the process of building Hoh temple and Shar temple, the relationship between Mongol banners and these two temples. The second chapter discusses the situation of Juungar banner’s Lamas whom dispatched to Dolon Nuur’s two temples.the case of defaulting Lama’s expenses,and the big fire occurred in Dolon Nuur’s temple twice. The third chapter discusses the historical reason of Juungar banner’s defaulting problem, the changes of Qing dynasty’s Mongolian policy, the transition and destitution of Juungar banner’s society. The last chapter concludes the main content and summary of this paper.