The Secret History of the Mongols: The Life and Times of ...
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE MONGOLS
THIS BOOK IS DEDICATED TO THE MONGOLS
OF ALL TIMES, PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE
THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE
MONGOLS
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF CHINGGIS KHAN
TRANSLATED, ANNOTATED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY
Urgunge Onon
LONDON AND NEW YORK
First Published in 2001 by RoutledgeCurzon Press 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon,
Oxon, OX14 4RN
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ISBN 0-7007-1335-2 (Print Edition)
CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION
1
CHAPTER ONE
39
CHAPTER TWO
63
CHAPTER THREE
85
CHAPTER FOUR
109
CHAPTER FIVE
127
CHAPTER SIX
145
CHAPTER SEVEN
165
CHAPTER EIGHT
181
CHAPTER NINE
201
CHAPTER TEN
217
CHAPTER ELEVEN
233
CHAPTER TWELVE
257
APPENDIX
281
BIBLIOGRAPHY
289
INDEX
293
vi
INTRODUCTION
The East has known only three great men. Sakyamuni was born a prince around 500 BC in what is now Nepal. Distressed by human suffering, he left his family, achieved enlightenment through meditation, and became the Buddha. According to his teachings, life is painful, the origin of pain is desire, the end of pain can be achieved by ending desire, and the way to this is through right living. This philosophy of `cause and effect' spread northwards into Tibet, where it absorbed the popular Bon religion and changed greatly in nature. The resulting synthesis, known as Lamaism, can be criticised as passive and fatalistic. Lamaism became popular among the Mongols1 during the reign of Qubilai Qahan (1215?1294).
Confucius was born at around the same time as the Buddha, into China's lower aristocracy. Confucius wanted to restore China to a golden age of peace. He also said that `the universe belongs to the public', but although he emphasised the need for ethical conduct, he believed implicitly in a society shaped by the hereditary right of aristocrats. He helped to endow Chinese with the idea that China lay at the centre of the universe; and he persuaded ordinary Chinese to confine their loyalties to their family
1 The word `Mongol' was used as a tribal name until 1206, when Tem?jin (Chinggis Qahan) was elevated to Great Qahan. The name then became synonymous with the state until 1271, when the Great Qahan Qubilai introduced the name Yuan Dynasty. Since then, `Mongol' has been used as a general name for the Mongol people.
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