Tsendiin Damdinsüren
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Tsendiin Damdinsüren was a Mongolian writer and linguist. He wrote the text to one version of the national anthem of Mongolia.
Damdinsüren in 1969
The Secret History of the Mongols is the oldest surviving literary work in the Mongolic languages. Written for the Mongol royal family some time after the death of Genghis Khan in 1227, it recounts hi
Tsendiin Damdinsüren
…of the Writers Union. Damdinsüren wrote poetry that was well received in Mongolia. He also produced prose and literary studies, and a translation of The Secret History of the Mongols into modern Mongolian. The language of his poems and prose was largely based on the oral literary traditions of Mongolia, which he developed into a…
1947 edition in modern Mongolian script, translated by Tsendiin Damdinsüren
Initial pages of the Secret History published in 1908 by Ye Dehui. The rows with large characters represent Mongolian phonetic transcription in Chinese characters, with the right-hand smaller characters representing the glosses
Palladius, a Russian monk who was the first to translate the work into a foreign language