An interview with Prof. Bira, president of the Roerich Society of Mongolia, Born in 1927, a year after Nicholas Roerich arrived in Mongolia, Bira is also the last surviving student of George Roerich, Nichola Roerich's eldest son, a Buddhologist who graduated from Columbia University. George had accompanied his father to Mongolia in 1926-27, and in 1958 returned to Russia to set up a PhD program in Indo-Tibetan Buddhist Studies at the Institute of Oriental Studies.
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