"Our Well-Known Mongolist
N. Golovkin Has Told Us, That According To A Story Actually Current Among
The Mongols, The Tombs Of The Former Mongol Khans Are Situated Near
Tasola Hill, Equally In The Vicinity Of The Kerulen.
He states also that
even now the Mongols are accustomed to assemble on that hill on the seventh
day of the seventh moon (according to an ancient custom), in order to adore
Chingiz Khan's tomb.
Altan tobchi (translated into Russian by Galsan
Gomboeff), in relating the history of the Mongols after their expulsion
from China, and speaking of the Khans' tombs, calls them Naiman tzagan
gher, i.e. 'Eight White Tents' (according to the number of chambers for
the souls of the chief deceased Khans in Peking), and sometimes simply
Tzagan gher, 'the White Tent,' which, according to the translator's
explanation, denotes only Chingiz Khan's tomb."
"According to the Chinese Annals (T'ung kien kang mu), quoted by Dr. E.
Bretschneider (Med. Res. I. p. 157), Chinghiz died near the Liu p'an
shan in 1227, after having subdued the Tangut empire. On modern Chinese
maps Liu p'an shan is marked south of the city of Ku yuean chou,
department of P'ing liang, in Kan suh. The Yuean shi however, implies
that he died in Northern Mongolia. We read there, in the annals, s.a.
1227, that in the fifth intercalary month the Emperor moved to the
mountain Liu p'an shan in order to avoid the heat of the summer. In the
sixth month the empire of the Hia (Tangut) submitted.
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