ABSTRACT

Once upon time, in the days of the Four Khanates and the Church Estate1 in Khalkha, a boy had been falsely accused on account of something done by his late father, and had been banished far away to China. That boy used to wander all round the land of China. At that time the Tüsheet Khan was travelling to Peking with his wrestlers, his archers and his horses to attend the Emperor and show off the Three Manly Sports of the Khalkha Mongols.2 The boy who had been punished on his father's account heard that his own lord, the Tüsheet Khan, was coming, and waited to intercept him on the frontier road to China.