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Abtai Sain Khan

1534 - 1588

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Abtai Sain Khan (Mongolian: ᠠᠪᠲᠠᠶ ᠢᠰᠠᠶᠢᠨ ᠬᠠᠨ Абтай сайн хан; 1554–1588) – alternately Abatai or Avtai (Mongolian: Автай хан, meaning who have the gift of witchcraft (Автай) and good (сайн) – was a Khalkha-Mongolian prince who was named by the 3rd Dalai Lama as first khan of the Tüsheet Khanate in 1587. He zealously propagated Tibetan Buddhism among the Khalkha Mongols and founded the Buddhist monastery of Erdene Zuu in 1585. Abtai was born in 1554 to the Khalkha Mongol prince Onokhui üizen Noyan (b. 1534). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Abtai Sain Khan is the 2,153rd most popular religious figure (down from 1,125th in 2019). (down from 906th in 2019)

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Abtai Sain Khan ranks 2,153 out of 3,187Before him are Christoph Bartholomäus Anton Migazzi, Polycarp Pengo, Manuel Gonçalves Cerejeira, Coloman of Stockerau, Louis Bertrand, and Alphaeus. After him are Peter Shirayanagi, Charles Fox Parham, Abu Nu'aym al-Isfahani, Ingrid Vang Nyman, Oscar Cantoni, and Cesare Orsenigo.

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Among people born in 1534, Abtai Sain Khan ranks 13Before him are Isaac Luria, Archduchess Eleanor of Austria, Lautaro, Guru Ram Das, Giovanni de' Bardi, and Robert Garnier. After him are Hans Bol, Setthathirath, Fernando de Herrera, Volcher Coiter, Zacharias Ursinus, and Dirck Barendsz. Among people deceased in 1588, Abtai Sain Khan ranks 17Before him are Alonso Sánchez Coello, Plautilla Nelli, Álvaro de Bazán, 1st Marquess of Santa Cruz, Louis of Granada, Valentin Weigel, and Giorgio Biandrata. After him are Philip II, Margrave of Baden-Baden, Nicolás Monardes, and Diego Durán.

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