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See also:URGA (the See also:Russian See also:form of the Mongol Orgo = See also:palace of a high See also:official)
, a See also:city of See also:Mongolia, and the administrative centre of the
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See also:northern and eastern Kalka tribes, in 48° 20' N., 107° 30' E., on a tributary of the Tola See also:river
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It is the See also:holy city of the See also:Mongols and the See also:residence of the " Living See also:Buddha," See also:metropolitan of the Kalka tribes, who ranks third in degree of veneration among the dignitaries of the Lamaist See also: Until the second See also:half of the 19th See also:century bricks of See also:tea formed the only circulating See also:medium for the See also:retail trade at Urga, but Chinese See also:brass See also:cash then began to pass current in the markets . The trade of Urga is valued at over £1,000,000 a See also:year . The temples in the Mongol quarter are numerous and imposing, and in one is a gilt See also:image of See also:Maitreya Bodhisattva, 33 ft. in height and weighing 125 tons . When in 1904, on the occasion of the See also:British expedition to See also:Tibet, the Dalai Lama withdrew from Lhassa he went to Urga, where he remained until 1908 . During his residence there the Dalai Lama would have no communication with the Urga Lama—described as a drunken profligate (see The Chinese See also:Empire, ed . M . Broomhall, See also:London, 1907, p . 357) . The Chinese contemplate See also:building a railway from Peking to Urga . The first See also:section, to See also:Kalgan, was completed in 1909 (see See also:CHINA, § Communications) . |
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