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500 Tögrög Undur Geghen Zanabazar
| Issuer | Bank of Mongolia |
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| Year | 1999 |
| Type | Non-circulating coin |
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| Obverse lettering | Монгол Банк ᠮᠤᠩᠭᠤᠯ ᠤᠯᠤᠰ 500 TӨГРӨГ MONGOLIA 25gr 925 SILVER (Translation: The Bank of Mongolia Monggol Ulus (Mongolia) 500 Tögrög) |
| Reverse description | Central device depicts a gilt effigy of Sita Tara (White Tara), a female bodhisattva of Tibetan Buddhist iconography, rendered in fine relief and seated in the lotus position upon a lotus throne, her right hand raised in the vitarka mudra and holding a lotus blossom. A vertical column of traditional Mongolian script appears to the left of the figure. The arc legend 'UNDUR GEGHEN ZANABAZAR 1635-1723' curves across the upper field, identifying the renowned Mongolian Buddhist master and sculptor who created the original image. Below the figure, 'Sita Tara' and the date '1999' are inscribed in the lower field. The design is presented against a deeply mirrored proof background. |
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Zanabazar (1635–1723) was the first Jebtsundamba Khutughtu — the highest reincarnate lama of Outer Mongolia — and remains the most significant sculptor in Mongolian history, responsible for introducing Tibetan Buddhist iconographic conventions into a distinctly Mongolian aesthetic vocabulary. The title "Öndör Gegeen," meaning Sublime Enlightened One, was conferred upon him in Tibet by the Fifth Dalai Lama himself. This coin was issued as part of Mongolia's late-1990s commemorative silver program, during a period when the newly democratic state was actively reasserting pre-Soviet cultural and religious identities suppressed for over six decades.