Erdeniin Tobchi
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The Erdeniin Tobchi is a national chronicle of the Mongols written by Saghang Sechen in 1662.
Publication history
The Erdeniin Tobchi is commonly called The Chronicles of Sagang Sechen. A first translation into a western language (German) was published by the Moravian missionary Isaac Jacob Schmidt in 1829. The English translation by John Krueger is called The Bejeweled Summary of the Origin of the Khan: A History of the Eastern Mongols to 1662.
Reception
It is generally regarded by nearly all ancient Mongolists as a primary source of accurate Mongol history. The names in this work were reputed to be uncorrupted. Erdeniin Tobchi's records of Mongol rulers were so different from Altan Tobchi in Mongolian and Habib al-siyar, Zafarnama in Persian that modern Mongolists consider Saghang Sechen's records to be inaccurate.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1196140. VIAF identifies the subject as 254928476. The Library of Congress control number is n2012057184. None of the 3 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1662 and 1829.
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