During the Soviet control of Mongolia, all but four of the country's seven hundred Tibetan monasteries were destroyed, and over 100,000 Tibetan Lamas were either executed or went underground. As a young monk, Manalsuren was forcibly conscripted into the Soviet-controlled Mongolian Army. He is now one of over 1000 Tibetan Lamas who have "reappeared" in Mongolia since the fall of the Soviet Empire. (Mongolian)