Jambalnamdalchoijijantsan, the reincarnated Ninth Bogd dies last night at age 80 in Ulaanbaatar. Ninth Bogd was born in Tibet in 1932, he was identified as the reincarnation of the Eighth Bogd when he was four years old. He stayed away from Mongolia as he grew up and finally went to Dharamsala in India in 1961. The Dalai Lama, already there in exile, formally anointed him, under his seal, as the Ninth Bogd a year later.

His first visit to Mongolia was in 1999 when came here after attending a religious conference in Khalimag. However, he had to keep the visit secret as the Chinese leader Jiang Zemin was in the country at the same time. Finally he came last year in the autumn and returned for two months this year, at the invitation of the Gandantegchilen monastery when he received his Mongolian citizenship.

The Government of Mongolia formed funeral commission headed by Yo.Otgonbayar, Minister for Edication, Science and Culture.