Kharkhorin
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Mongolian Хархорин (Xarxorin).
Proper noun
[edit]Kharkhorin
- A city in Övörkhangai, Mongolia
- 2006 August 19, Lindsay Beck, “Buddhism Making a Revival in Mongolia”, in The Washington Post[1], →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on April 05, 2024[2]:
- Erdene Zuu monastery, in the grasslands on the edge of the ancient capital of Kharkhorin, about 230 miles southwest of Ulan Bator, housed 1,500 lamas before it was destroyed in 1936.