Contents: Lama of the Gobi: How Mongolia's mystic monk spread Tibetan Buddhism in the world's harshest desert
	Editor's Note	6
	Preface	7
	Introduction	13
1.	The Mysterious Monk	19
2.	The Torch is Passed	35
3.	Incidents of Youth	51
4.	Ravjaa and Buddhism	71
5.	Mongolia in the 19th Century	79
6.	A Desert Theater	87
7.	The Great Poet	127
8.	The Renaissance Man	145
9.	Adventures and Companions	163
10.	Travels and the Capital City	179
11.	An Untimely End	185
12.	Ravjaa Resurrected	203
	Epilogue	225
	Chronology	228
	Glossary	233
	Bibliography	236
	Endnotes	240