Mongolia : the legacy of Chinggis Khan / Patricia Berger, Terese Tse Bartholomew ; with essays by James Bosson [and others] ; catalogue photographs by Kazuhiro Tsuruta.

Published on the occasion of the travelling exhibition of the same name held at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, July 19-Oct. 15, 1995; the Denver Art Museum, Nov. 11, 1995-Feb. 26, 1996; and the National Geographic Society, Washington, D.C., April 3-July 7, 1996.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 318-327) and index.

Introduction / Patricia Berger -- Who are the Mongols, and why? / James Bosson -- Mongolia: from Chinggis Khan to independence / Morris Rossabi -- After Xanadu: the Mongol renaissance of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries / Patricia Berger -- Introduction to the art of Mongolia / Terese Tse Bartholomew -- Scripts and literacy in the Mongol world / James Bosson -- Nomadic life / Terese Tse Bartholomew --  Renaissance and reincarnation / Patricia Berger -- Buddhist festivals in Mongolia / Patricia Berger -- Manuscripts / Terese Tse Bartholomew and Lewis R. Lancaster. --  Tibetan Pantheon: its Mongolian form / Heather Stoddard -- Zanabazar (1635-1723) / Patricia Berger.

The accompanying essays explore the rich historical background and examine the ways in which the various forms of art were used--both in a spiritual context and in communicating to the nomadic people a message of harmony and unity, the promise of utopian future.