Great Burghan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape
Type
Cultural
Criteria
iv, vi
Designated
2015 (39th session)
Reference no.
1440
Region
Asia-Pacific
The Burkhan Khaldun (Cyrillic: Бурхан Халдун) is one of the Khentii Mountains in the Khentii Province of northeastern Mongolia. The mountain or its locality is believed to be the birthplace of Genghis Khan as well as his tomb. It is also the birthplace of one of his most successful generals, Subutai.
The mountain is part of the 12,000 square kilometres (4,600 sq mi) Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area established in 1992. It had strong religious significance before Genghis Khan made it a powerful landmark and is considered the most sacred mountain in Mongolia since it was designated as sacred by Genghis Khan. It was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 4 July 2015 under the title "Great Burkhan Khaldun Mountain and its surrounding sacred landscape." Under a Presidential Decree of 1995 the worship of this mountain has been formalised and the mountain declared a national monument. Its ecosystem is complex with unique biodiversity with flora of the Central Asian steppe. It has 50 species of fauna and 253 species of birds.
The BurkhanKhaldun (Cyrillic: Бурхан Халдун) is one of the Khentii Mountains in the Khentii Province of northeastern Mongolia. The mountain or its locality...
is generally believed that it is near the Mongol sacred mountain of BurkhanKhaldun in the Khentii Mountains. The Genghis Khan Mausoleum is a temple dedicated...
Khan, is also BurkhanKhaldun. Ak-Burkhan is only one of a pantheon of deities worshiped by Burkhanists (see list below), but Ak-Burkhan nevertheless provides...
Burkhan may refer to: BurkhanKhaldun, one of the Khentii Mountains in the Khentii Province of northeastern Mongolia Burkhan Bakshin Altan Sume, "The Golden...
landscape changes into the eastern Mongolian steppe plains. The mountain BurkhanKhaldun in the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area is considered sacred and...
Temüjin's camp. While Temüjin and his brothers were able to hide on BurkhanKhaldun mountain, Börte and Sochigel were abducted. In accordance with levirate...
Mongols, Genghis Khan chose the area when he went hunting near the BurkhanKhaldun mountain in the Khentii Mountains of his homeland. He sat down to rest...
in Kyrgyzstan (not to be confused with the modern Khan Tengri), and BurkhanKhaldun in Mongolia, associated with the name of Genghis Khan. Symbolic mountains...
older shamanism. From at least Genghis Khan onwards,[citation needed] BurkhanKhaldun was seen as a sacred mountain. Buddhism first entered Mongolia during...
Khentii Strictly Protected Area and includes Mongolia's sacred mountain, BurkhanKhaldun, which is associated with the origin of Genghis Khan. The range forms...
Orkhon Valley Petroglyphs Uvs Nuur Basin BurkhanKhaldun Mongol Daguur Biosphere Reserve Deer Stones The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural...
by Heaven, and a fallow doe. Together they crossed a lake to reach BurkhanKhaldun where they gave birth to a human male. This human male, named Bat Tsagan...
1257–1266 Predecessor Ulaghchi Successor Mengu-Timur Born c. 1208 BurkhanKhaldun, Mongolia Died 1266 (aged 58) Kura River, Azerbaijan Issue Tagtagai...
princes.[citation needed] Kublai Khan dispatched his grandson Gammala to BurkhanKhaldun in 1291 to ensure his claim to Ikh Khorig, where Genghis was buried...
originates in the south slopes of the Khentii mountains, near the BurkhanKhaldun mountain in the Khan Khentii Strictly Protected Area, about 180 kilometres...
Subutai ᠰᠦᠪᠡᠭᠡᠳᠡᠢ Born c. 1175 BurkhanKhaldun, Khamag Mongol Died 1248 (aged 72–73) Tuul River, Mongol Empire Other names Latin transcriptions: Subetei...
animists who worshiped the Eternal Blue Sky and the God Mountain of BurkhanKhaldun. When Muslim envoys came from Central Asia to seek Genghis Khan's protection...
beginning of the Mongol Empire (1206–1368), the Mongol Uriankhai (BurkhanKhaldun Uriankhai) were located in central Mongolia but in the mid 14th century...
The Bogd Khan Mountain, along with Mongolia's other sacred mountains BurkhanKhaldun and Otgontenger, was added to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List...
Vietnam Bảy Núi – Vietnam Black Hills – South Dakota, United States BurkhanKhaldun – Mongolia Ceahlău Massif – Romania. The most important peak is Toaca...
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