500 Tögrög Undur Geghen Zanabazar

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.