The Precious Summary: A History of the Mongols from Chinggis Khan to the Qing Dynasty

Author/Contributor(s):	Elverskog, Johan
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Date:	03/21/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

The Precious Summary is the most important work of Mongolian history on the three-hundred-year period before the rise of the Manchu Qing dynasty. Written by Sagang Sechen in 1662, shortly after the Mongols' submission to the Qing, it spans Buddhist cosmology, Chinggis Khan, the post-Yuan Mongols, and the Mongols' conversion to Buddhism.