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  • Storm from the East: a Review Article1

  • Thomas Nivison Haining
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 4 / Issue 2 / July 1994
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 September 2009, pp. 251-254
    Print publication:
    July 1994

  • These words of the thirteenth-century Hungarianchronicler, Bishop Thomas of Spalato, are notuntypical of many descriptions of the consequencesof the creation of the Mongol nation(ulus) by Chinggis Khan in 1206and the subsequent expansion of the ChinggisidEmpire. They accord with the popular concept of theMongol hordes, known by Europeans of the thirteenthcentury as the Tartars, and believed to be thedescendants of Gog and Magog who had broken forthfrom behind the Alexandrian Iron Gates at Derbend todestroy European culture and Christianity.

  • The Great Buddha of the KhalkhaRiver

  • Thomas Nivison Haining
  • Journal:
    Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society / Volume 2 / Issue 2 / July 1992
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    24 September 2009, pp. 231-239
    Print publication:
    July 1992

  • The Khalkha River (Khalkhin Gol),which forms part of the north-east frontier betweenthe Mongolian People–s Republic (MPR) and thePeople's Republic of China (PRC), is famous inMongolian history for the 1939 Battle ofKhalkhin Gol (Nomonhan), in whichjoint Mongolian-Soviet forces finally repulsed theattempted invasion of the MPR by the Japanese Armyof Manchukuo. Less well known, however, is theexistence on the left bank of that river of one ofMongolia's most interesting religious antiquities,the remains of a gigantic Buddhist statue, known asthe Great Buddha (Ikh Burkhan).