
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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