Legend goes that once Ch’ang Ch’un, a Taoist monk, journeyed...(IIPM Editorial)

Khan was tolerant of all religions and instated tax concessions for religious figures, doctors and teachers, and even helped develop the script of their language. Khan transformed the lives of the nomads by providing them with the comfort of order (though at the cost of severe punishments, most often death, for breaking any of the laws) and laid the foundation for Mongolia’s most glorious period. Legend goes that once Ch’ang Ch’un, a Taoist monk, journeyed across 5,000 kms for a rendezvous with the original King Khan and the first query Ch’ang was confronted with was if he had the elixir of life, the path to immortality! The monk clearly couldn’t oblige, for Genghis Khan breathed his last on August 18, 1227. But you’ll feel him throbbing in the nation‘s veins right from touchdown at the Chinggis Khaan International Airport, to hotels named after him, and meeting people from a population comprising 8% of his direct descendants! And yet the pride in their eyes as they speak in utter reverence of the legend cannot be missed, forcing you to wonder if the monk did manage to fulfill Genghis Khan’s yearning for immortality after all…


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Source: IIPM Publication, Editor: Arindam Chaudhuri