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Dorji Namjil
Dorji Nangjil
MongolianThe Jangar Epic45+ yearsNational Inheritor
"Jangar is the soul of our people. As long as I sing, our ancestors live on."
Biography
Born in 1950 in Hebuksar Mongol Autonomous County, Dorji Namjil is one of the last Jangarchi to learn the epic through oral tradition. He can recite all twelve chapters of the Jangar Epic and has dedicated his life to training successors and documenting the epic's variations.
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