Tibetan Buddhist Temple in Inner Mongolia, China - Meidaizhao 美岱召

[@kenbarry749]

One of your best videos, always impressed with the knowledge you pass on Enjoy your trip.

[@nickinchina2552]

Thanks so much! Next up will be Hohot!

[@Odanti]

Nick...I enjoyed this video very much. I don't know why I have a fascination about Mongolia and the dalai lama in Tibet. Thank you...Nick. Blessings, ❤️🙏❤️

[@HarveyChenBlog]

I have watched almost all your videos. Nick! Being a British expat living in Xi'an, you are very knowledgeable about Chinese history. I have learned a lot from you! Enjoy your trip in inner Mongolia. By the way, have you ever been to the mausoleum of kenghis khan in erdos?

[@nickinchina2552]

Thanks a lot!. I didn't go to the mausoleum...although i did intend to. I just didn't have time during this trip, but i will make the trip one day!

[@koshinippo6351]

@@nickinchina2552 The Genghis Khan Temple in Ulanhot is also worth a visit.

[@markxueyuan]

Welcome to Inner Mongolia, the place where I was born. Like your videos very much!

[@markxueyuan]

I was actually born in the little town --- SaLaQi.

[@markxueyuan]

I didn't know the early history of Dalai Lama before watching your video. So basically Dalai originated from my hometown? Interesting history to know!

[@nickinchina2552]

You were born in Salaqi?! amazing. I didn't stay there long, i just had a little walk around and some food while i waited for my train back to Hohot

[@markxueyuan]

@@nickinchina2552 Yes. I lived there until 4, when my father suddenly became homesick and decided to move back to his hometown, which is another small town not far from Xi'an. I still have some memory about Salaqi. Little kids born in that town would be called SaHaoZi (Rat of Salaqi) by the locals. I was one of the SaHaozi, which I feel proud of until today. I believe my life in Inner Mongolia made me different from the typical child growing up in 内地。

[@MarchandDeModes]

The transition to Buddhism from Taoism is something I wondered alot about, that is super interesting.

[@debbywang3369]

Great video! I can always learn a lot of historical knowledge from your videos. Thanks, Nick!

[@nickinchina2552]

Thanks Debby! I was a bit worried my history ramble at the end was too long 😂

[@mglee1431]

Very informative. Thanks, Nick. Another wonderful video!

[@nickinchina2552]

No problem! You are very welcome!

[@charleneji6759]

Spectacular view from the bottom of the pagoda!

[@nickinchina2552]

The views were great! A pretty interesting spot.

[@4961lee]

Amazing video. It is unlike the other video bloggers. Qualities and great. I learn lots of historical knowledge that l never know before. Thanks and keep it up.

[@nickinchina2552]

Big thanks to you! I'm quite happy now the channel is 99% history travel

[@Tibetandemocracy]

Thanks for great video

[@raymondlianto9882]

One of the pioneers of Tibetan Buddhism is Atisa. He was born in 982 CE in Bengal, Bangladesh the he went to study Buddhism in Palembang South Sumatra, Srivijaya empire Indonesia for 12 years. After that he went to India and then Tibet to teach Buddhism until he dies in 1054.

[@hellboundtruck123]

Please go clockwise when going around on a stupa 🙏

[@nickinchina2552]

yep, but couldn't walk all the way around this one....the back was full of constriction materials

[@KisenoMarma]

Namo.buddha🙏🙏🙏

[@johnsamu]

Great video as usual but your videos would gain so much in quality when you would use 4K. You are often going into the NOT often visited "special" places, the colour/resolution would improve a LOT when changing over. I know it has disadvantages/problems, it's time consuming and you need "beefy" hardware/software to play/edit 4K video. Hohot for me is a name on the map when we fly into/out of China. Having a real stone OR a cast concrete lion statue is often an indication of being really old OR heavily "renovated".😉

[@nickinchina2552]

yeh...i need to buy a new computer 😂😂

[@johnsamu]

@@nickinchina2552 IF and when you buy a new PC make sure the video graphics card can handle 4K videos.

[@asl6304]

I never knew Dalai was a Mongolian word nor that the Mongols converted to Tibetan Buddhism. I wonder if that siren like sound in the background in the first portion of this video was to scare away animals that might attack the sheep

[@nickinchina2552]

The siren was just a car alarm i think...and it didn't stop for about 30 mins 😂

[@桃桃之夭]

Different ethnic groups and religions are so mingled together within China. I think there are also many Muslims in inner Mongolia.

[@timinghourglass58]

中國穆斯林主要在寧夏和新疆，這兩個省份是穆斯林為主，當然中國穆斯林可以在全國各地居住

[@nickinchina2552]

Yeh, quite a large Hui Muslim population, particularly in Hohhot

[@edwardsnowden8821]

Unlike popular destinations within china like Lhasa and Xinjiang, Chinese tourists don't seem to care too much about inner Mongolia

[@fargr5926]

Oh, yes they do. There are tons of tourist activities in inner Mongolia, although not so much on historical topics.

[@nickinchina2552]

Depends where you go. The north east of Inner Mongolia is crazy tourism!

[@edwardsnowden8821]

Only the some of the Mongol elite converted to tibetan Buddhism, the general population still largely practiced animist/shamanistic worship. Tibetan Buddhism really took hold in Mongolia during the Qing dynasty, because the Qing largely promoted it amongst the ethnic Mongolian population, literally killing two birds with one Stone. 1, The religion tamed the rebellion prone and warlike Mongols 2, Most Mongols started sending thier sons to join the monasteries as this was seen as a sure way to power and a good life in the harsh steep, effectively decimating the Mongolian population as huge quantities of men where removed from the marriage pool, while the more servile han Chinese where brought into the region as farmers .

[@timinghourglass58]

你错了，藏传佛教在元朝是作为国教存在的，蒙古和西藏相互影响，蒙古支持了藏传佛教中的黄教作为主流，而藏传佛教活佛一直到清朝还是蒙古的最高统治者，在历史上两个活佛的职位一直作为蒙古的最高领袖

[@fargr5926]

@@timinghourglass58 元朝时期只是王室贵族皈依藏传佛教，元灭后，蒙古高原重回萨满崇拜。

[@timinghourglass58]

@@fargr5926 你纯粹在胡说八道，多看看书和旅行吧，这是我给你的最后一条讯息

[@Tibetandemocracy]

Anyway Qing itself died into Han Chinese culture.. I really don’t know whether Qing ruler knew what will happen for them..

[@tenzinthinley8764]

3th Dalai Lama and Altan Khan relation is the reason why current Mongolians in Mongolia and Mongolians in Russia are now follower of Gelug tradition

[@commie5211]

The mongols in Russia are Oirat(west mongols), they got nothing to do with altan khan(south mongols). Google Gushi Khan, lhazang Khan, Galdan, they were the ones who influenced the four Oirat. Oirat mongols ruled Tibet for some time aka Khoshut Khanate, and tibetan don't know the ones in Russia are Oirat?

[@tenzinthinley8764]

@@commie5211 you may be right in terms of tribes that Tumed, Khalka and Qirats are different but Altan Khan was the first Mongol leader of great tribe to establish relations with Gelug tradition and convert himself to Gelug. And His Holiness the 3rd Dalai Lama spent his remaining years converting Mongols to Gelug in Mongol areas. Thus paving the way for Mongol chiefs like Gushi Khan etc to embrace Gelugpa.

[@commie5211]

@@tenzinthinley8764 You know what the Gelug did with this relationship? Purged all other political and religious rivals out of Tibet. Before, religion was only part of the tibetan government, after that the religion became the government. Whenever there was a political rival the gelug would side with an outside power in order to purge it. This was how Qing dynasty got involved too. When the Qing dynasty was gone, 13th sided with the British and kicked panchen out of Tibet. When PRC reinstalled panchen, they sided with the US and used tibetan population as a tool.

[@tenzinthinley8764]

@@commie5211 religion and politics are not good mix and I agree with this. But rulers tend to use religion as tool to reinforce their power, even supposedly atheist CCP is not beyond this shenanigans

[@commie5211]

@@tenzinthinley8764 Initially cpc despite such imperial tactics, however they realized that building temples are way more effective than spending trillions building infrastructures, lifting the living standard of tibetans. Yeah, they started building temples again. I don't blame them as long as they don't do it to the Han population. We recognize the tactic.

[@gyadre]

Qinghai, parts of Sichuan, Yunan and Gansu is Tibet. China merged them with 3 Chinese province and renamed Qinghai from Amdo. Infact the current Dalai Lama and founder of Geluk sect are from Amdo aka Qinghai. Tibet Autonomous Region refered to as Tibet was directly under the political control of the Dalai Lama and those merged with Chinese provinces were ruled by many local chieftains are like small kingdom. Most of people living in these kingdoms were descendent of the soldiers sent by Tibetan in 7 to 9AD to guard the border. Town like Kanding, Chengdu etc are border town between historical Tibet and China.

[@timinghourglass58]

成都是邊界城市？？你在胡說八道什麼😂

[@huanwang-ur5ve]

@@timinghourglass58 跟刮三没有道理讲，

[@wadeabout1856]

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