Scope and Contents Contains correspondence, research, microfilm, and more collected by or created by Paul Hyer as a professor of history at Brigham Young University, primarily from the late 1950s to the 1990s. This research was primarily centered on Mongolia and Tibet, and includes particular interest in Demcugdongrub, Kanjurwa Khutughtu, and the Dalai Lama. Hyer was one of the first researchers of Tibet and Mongolia from a Japanese perspective; therefore sources are in Japanese as well as Chinese, Mongolian,...

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Typewritten book draft with handwritten corrections and a final draft of the item. The manuscripts were co-authored by Sechin Jagchid and are a biography of Kanjura Khutughtu.

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Contains correspondence, research, microfilm, and more collected by or created by Paul Hyer as a professor of history at Brigham Young University, primarily from the late 1950s to the 1990s.

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Contains family and personal correspondence addressed to and from Paul Hyer.

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Contains a general outline, table of contents, preface, chronology, and origin; contents; birth and selection, life in monastery; outline and partial draft, miscellaneous draft pages, cut-up pages, material on visits to China, Mongolia, Japan, and Taiwan, historical background of Buddhism, assorted biographical information and sketches, notes to publisher, draft tapes (dictation), and supplements.