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f Liife Drawings of the wheel symbolise the cycle of death and rebirth, held
by Yama, the god of the dead.
SStuupas (
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Suvrag) Originally built to house the cremated relics of Sakyamuni, they
have become a powerful symbol of Buddhism. Later stupas became reliquaries for
lamas and holy men.
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Christianity
Nestorian Christianity was part of the Mongol empire long before the Western missionar-
ies arrived. The Nestorians followed the doctrine of Nestorious (AD 358-451), patriarch
of Constantinople (428-31), who proclaimed that Jesus exists as two separate persons:
the man Jesus and the divine son of God. Historically the religion never caught hold in
the Mongol heartland, but that has changed in recent years with an influx of Christian
missionaries, often from obscure fundamentalist sects. In Mongolia, there are an estim-
ated 65,000 Christians and more than 150 churches.
Religions of Mongolia , by Walther Heissig, provides a look at Buddhist and shamanist
faiths as they developed in Mongolia.
 
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