Dynastica
Buyantu Khan

Buyantu Khan

愛育黎拔力八達

Emperor of the Yuan · Khagan of the Mongols

1285 – 1320

Biography

Younger brother of Külüg Khan and the most thoroughly Sinicized of the Yuan emperors. He restored the Confucian civil service examinations that the Mongols had abolished sixty years earlier, sponsored a translation of the Chinese classics into Mongolian, and stabilized the currency. The most highly regarded Yuan emperor by traditional Chinese historiography.

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