REGION: Asia
COUNTRY: Mongolia
YEAR PRINTED: 1991
VALUE: 65 tugrik

This stamp forms part of a set of eight issued by Mongolia in 1991 to celebrate the traditional Tsam Hindo-Buddhist masked dance. This stamp depicts Gongor, also known as Tsagaan Machagal.  This god’s primary purpose is protection of the world and Buddhist religion, spreading prosperity and eliminating poverty and misery everywhere he goes.