Shankh Monastery (housed Genghis Khan's spirit banner)

Shankh Monastery is located in Mongolia

Shankh Monastery (Mongolian: Шанх хийд, Shankh Khiid) located in Övörkhangai Province, Central Mongolia, 25 kilometers South East of Kharkhorin city, is one of Mongolia’s oldest and most historically significant monasteries originally founded in 1647 by Zanabazar, the first Jebtsundamba Khutuktu, or spiritual head of Tibetan Buddhism for the Khalkha in Outer Mongolia, around the same time as the establishment of the nearby Tuvhun Monastery.

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shankh Monastery
• page xv - Weatherford, J., 2004, Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World: Three Rivers Press, New York, 312p.