Mongolia issued this beautiful set in 1958 to show animals of the country.

The stamps show:

Used, & in tidy, clean condition. Not the full set.

SG 138 - 141.

Born in Tibet, he was the third most important person in the Tibetan Buddhist hierarchy as the 8th Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, below only the Dalai Lama & Panchen Lama, & known as the Bogdo Lama. He was the spiritual leader of Outer Mongolia's Tibetan Buddhism.
As a monk, the Bogd had limited access to physical means of imposing power, though some enemies were executed for blasphemy. The Polish traveller Ferdinand Ossendowski recorded that he knew "every thought, every movement of the Princes & Khans, the slightest conspiracy against him, & the offender is usually kindly invited to Urga, from where he does not return alive." -"Beasts, Men, & Gods", F. Ossendowski, get it from your library: a fascinating read!
On December 1, the Provisional Government of Khalkha issued a general proclamation announcing the establishment of a theocracy under the Jebtsundamba Khutuktu. On December 29, he was formally installed as the Bogd Khan of the new Mongolian state.
The Bogd Gegen lost his power when Chinese governance was restored in 1919. When Baron Ungern-Sternberg's forces failed to seize Urga in his 1920 invasion, the Bogd was placed under house arrest; then he became a puppet of Ungern shortly before he took Urga in 1921. After the revolution in 1921 led by Damdin Sükhbaatar, the Bogd Khan was allowed to stay on the throne in a limited monarchy until his death in 1924.

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