Kollmar-Paulenz K. Imagining a “Buddhist Government” (mo. törö šasin) in seventeenth century Mongolia // Mongolica. Том XXIII, 2020, № 1. СПб.: Петербургское Востоковедение, 2020. С. 18—27.
The early seventeenth century saw the consolidation of Buddhism in the Mongolian regions, instigated some
decades earlier by Altan Qa an of the Tümeds and other Mongolian leaders. Mongolian chronicles of the
seventeenth century describe the impact the new socio-religious dominance of the Tibetan Buddhist dGe lugs pa school
had in the field of Mongolian politics. They also mirror the deep influence the Tibetan concept of chos srid
zung `brel, the “conjunction of religion/ religious law and government”, had on Mongolian conceptualizations of
secular and religious power. This paper addresses the shifts in political concepts of secular and religious rule by
undertaking a close reading of two important historical sources of the time, the Erdeni tunumal neretü sudur
(around 1607) and the Erdeni-yin tobči (1662). I argue that the Erdeni tunumal still adheres to a concept of
political rule in which the secular ruler has pre-eminence against his religious counterpart. A close reading of the
Erdeni-yin tobči reveals that this balance of power shifted in the latter part of the seventeenth century with the
establishment of the institution of the Dalai Lamas, which led to an increasing influence of Tibetan politicoreligious
thought on the Mongolian configuration of törö šasin.
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