DOI: 10.30792/2949-5768-2024-8-101-106
ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH ON THE HISTORY OF MONGOLIAN BUDDHISM: RESULTS OF THE MONGOLIA-JAPANESE JOINT PROJECT
Takashi Matsukawa – Doctor, Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Otani University (Japan).
E-mail: tmatsu@res.otani.ac.jp.
In 1935, the famous Japanese researcher Egami Namio excavated the ruins of Olon Sume in Ulaantsav aimag of Inner Mongolia, which marked the beginning of Japanese researchers focused on Buddhist archaeology in Mongolia. Since 1990, joint projects between the two countries have been successfully implemented. Among them are the Mongolian-Japanese joint project «Gurvan Gol Project», «Biches Project», «Erdene Zuu Project», «Khan Khentii Project», «National University of Mongolia and Otani University Joint Project». Recent research has led to new discoveries in the history of Mongolian Buddhism. This article provides an explanation of the results and problems of the projects in which the author participated, as well as the future of the project.
