Word: mongolia
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have come across none that possessed the inherent power and strength and fascination of this strange tale. Dr. Ossendowski, a Polish professor formerly holding an important official scientific position in Russia, was caught by the Revolution: fied in winter Eastward through Siberia; struck South across Inner and Outer Mongolia and into Thibet; retraced his steps, skirted--the Desert of Gobi, and finally reached Urga, the city of the Living Buddha. From Urga, which was also serving at the time as headquarters for Baron Ungern's campaign to stir up the ancient race of Jenghis Khan against the Bolsheviki, he made...
When he progresses farther, however, over the roads and mountains traversed by the great Khans Jenghis and Kublai, and by the mereliess Tamerlane-Temur, he becomes not so much the anti-revolutionist as the spokesman and interpreter of dying Mongolia. Himself a Pole, with just enough of the East in him to make him sympathetic with its mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries in a cold white light, he has drawn a picture that cannot...
...golden apple with the figure of a Lamb above it. The blind received their sight, the dumb spoke, the deaf heard, the crippled freely moved and the dead arose, wherever the eyes of the King of the World rested"! This same King also appeared at a monastery in Mongolia in 1890, and prophesied the World War, the tall of eight great kings, and the Revolution. . . . You may believe this or not. But one thing is certain: the East has never lived so clearly before modern eyes. The book, once opened, cannot be closed. It has caught and held and given...