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Ja Lama ,Dambijantsan , (1862-1922)

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Ja Lama

Ja Lama was a Russian Kalmyk and was born in Little Dörbet ulus of the Astrakhan gouvernment, Often was called later as a Tushegoun Lama. Ja Lamas propaganda work for the independence of the Kalmuck people made the acquaintance of many Russian prisons under the Czar and, for the same cause, added to his list under the Bolsheviki. He escaped to Mongolia and at once attained to great influence among the Mongols. It was no wonder, for he was a close friend and pupil of the Dalai Lama in Potala (Lhasa), was the most learned among the Lamaites, a famous buddhist astrologer ,vajrayana practionery ,thaumaturgist and doctor. Most well known as a warrior and military buddhist monk during on his Mongolian period. . He occupied an almost independent position in his relationship with the Living Buddha and achieved to the leadership of all the old wandering tribes of Western Mongolia and Zungaria, even extending his political domination over the Mongolian tribes of Turkestan. His influence was irresistible, based as it was on his great control of mysterious science, as he expressed it; but I was also told that it has its foundation largely in the panicky fear which he could produce in the Mongols. Everyone who disobeyed his orders perished. Such a one never knew the day or the hour when, in his yurta or beside his galloping horse on the plains, the strange and powerful friend of the Dalai Lama would appear. The stroke of a knife, a bullet or strong fingers strangling the neck like a vise accomplished the justice of the plans of this miracle worker.

Ja Lama told the Mongols that he was the grandson of Amursana. The latter had supposedly had a son, Temüsanu by name, and he was the parent of the aforementioned Dambi Jantsan, who later let it be known everywhere that he was going to free the Mongols from the rule of China and that he would soon return from the north with troops for this purpose. All Mongols believed implicitedly to this day in the real existence of this son of Amursana , they point out that this lama possessed a cap to which a golden ochir was affixed instead of a button as common among a mongols,.

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Years later , in Urga Ja Lama was arrested by the Urga Russian consulate and after interrrogation had been sent under guard back across the Russian border. The latter circumstance, while it had been been known to the people, had at the time considerably aided in quelling the natural alarm of the local Chinese and Mongol authorities."