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Contents Include: Who are the Mongols and Why?; Mongolia from Genghis Khan to Independence; After Xanadu: The Mongol Renaissance of the Sixteenth to Eighteenth Century; The Art of Mongolia; Scripts and Literacy on the Mongol World; Nomadic Life; Renaissance and Reincarnation; Buddhist Festivals in Mongolia; Manuscripts; The Tibetan Pantheon: Its Mongolian Form, Zanabazar 1635 to 1723; etc.