[citation needed] Then in 2010-11 she did a six-month internship at the Olcott Institute of the Theosophical Society of America, Wheaton, Ill., to upgrade her English translation skills.
[2] In Mongolia, she worked as publications manager at Maitri Books, and also ran a small travel company for people wishing to visit the Buddhist power places in the country.
He was born in 1947 in Darvi Sum of Hovd Amaig, southwest Mongolia, in a maternal lineage descended from the tribe of the wife of Chinggis Haan (Genghis Khan).
[8] This was the harsh era of the Stalinist purges, when Mongolia was a satellite of the Soviets,[9] and thus he grew up during a period when both Buddhism and Shamanism were oppressed to the point of near extinction.
In his youth he secretly trained in the ancient shamanic arts under several underground masters, and when Communism fell in 1990[10] he emerged as a principal force in the efforts of cultural and spiritual restoration.