Jamsrangiin Tseveen
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Tsyben Zhamtsaranovich Zhamtsarano, also known as Jamsrangiin Tseveen, was a Buryat scholar and folklorist. He was a collector of Mongol epics, songs, and stories; researcher into shamanism; and translator of European literature into Mongolian.
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Tsyben Zhamtsaranovich Zhamtsarano, also known as Jamsrangiin Tseveen, was a Buryat scholar and folklorist. He was a collector of Mongol epics, songs, and stories; researcher into shamanism; and translator of European literature into Mongolian. A nationalist, he was a leading figure in Mongolian politics and academia in the 1920s. In 1921, Zhamtsarano founded the Institute of Scriptures and Manuscripts, today the Mongolian Academy of Sciences. He was exiled to the Soviet Union in 1932, and in 1937 was arrested during the Stalinist Great Purge.
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