Jack Weatherford

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3,108 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard Aug 2025

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And so it was helpful that it already existed.

And some of it existed in Mongolian culture.

other Mongolian sources that were written later.

Some of it was just incorporated.

So it seemed to be fairly genuine, but it wasn't 100% pure.

Little things had happened to it along the way.

Some things have been stipped here and there, and a few words changed.

Like sometimes for Temujin, they call him Chinggis Khan.

Well, he wasn't the Khan then.

And sometimes they call him Han, which is like chief, and other times Han, which is emperor.

Well, in Mongolia, it's a big difference.

So there are little things like this that move around that you're not sure why, but it's a document that I have great faith in.

It was not published in English until 1982.

but Francis Woodman Cleaves at Harvard University translated it in the 50s.

It was ready for publication, and he was having trouble with the publisher, and so it didn't appear for nearly 30 years.

It was supposed to be two volumes.

The first volume is the translation.

The second volume was going to be the notes, and the second volume was lost.

To this day, it hasn't been found.

I would love to see that.

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