Shagdarsurengiin Soninbayar

This name is Mongolian ; “Shagdarsurengiin” - middle name , not last name ; this person’s personal name is Soninbayar.

Shagdarsurengiin Soninbayar ( Mong. Shagdarsүrengiin Soninbayar ; born in 1952 ) - Mongolian Buddhist figure, rector of the Buddhist University named after G. Dzanabadzara in Ulan Bator .

Shagdarsurengiin Soninbayar
Date of Birth	1952 ( 1952 )
Place of Birth	Mongolia , Central Gobi aimag , Gov-Ugtaal
Citizenship	Mongolia
Occupation	,

S. Soninbayar was born in 1952 in the Gov-Ugtaal somon of the Central Gobi aimag of Mongolia. After graduating from a ten-year school in 1970, he entered the State Pedagogical Institute , however, after studying for six months, he was forced to return home due to poor health. In 1973, having recovered, he came to the capital’s monastery Gandantegchenlin , but on the advice of the rector and fellow countryman Lama Badam, a student of the emchi Khaidavzhunaya, he was restored at the institute, where he received good historical and philological training. ^[one]

After graduating from the institute, in 1979 he became a "free lama" ( Mong. Sul Lam ) at the Buddhist Institute of Gandan; in 1981 - as a librarian, and in 1985 - as an institute teacher. In 1989, in order to become a lama , he went to study tsanid at the Institute of Buddhist Dialectics in Dharamsala ( India ).

Has a Buddhist degree of gabju , as well as a doctorate in historical sciences .

He is currently in the leadership of the Mongolian Association of Buddhists .