The icon of the "Ten Thousand Knives"

The manufacture of the Tumen Mesnii Burkhan (Icon of the Ten Thousand Knives) followed the stabbing to death of a person in the khoshuu of the Gobi Mergen Wan. Although the victim of the murder was Chinese, the entire Region was highly disturbed by this crime, Noyon Khutagt Danzanravjaa subsequently ordered that each family in the region bring a knife to Khamar Monastery and present it as an offering. The local population was quite surprised by this unusual demand, but nevertheless offered up their knives as requested. The "ten thousand knives" which thus came to be collected were brought to Tsokhon sumun, where over the course of two months they were founded, according to Danzan Ravjaa's instructions, by two local goldsmiths and two artisans from Dolnuur (Inner Mongolia) into the icon known as the "god of the ten thousand knives'. Since that time no further stabbing incident has occurred in the Region.

The icon remained until 1938 at Khamar monastery, at which time Tudev, curator of Danzanravjaa's heritage secretly removed it to his home. During the 1970s, burglars gained entry to the building in which Tudev had hidden various religious objects,and made off with a brass Janraisig statue of the size of a seven-year-old child, the Lovonchimbo ("ten thousand knives') icon, which was as large as a three-year-old child, and several smaller icons. The thieves separated the "ten thousand knives" icon from it base, taking only the body of the statue. The elderly Tudev is said to have cried in despair when he discovered this theft; yet he interpreted the. (leaving behind of the base of the "ten thousand knives' icon as a portentous sign both for the revival of the Buddhist, faith in Mongolia and for the recovery the (lost icon. Approximately thirty years later Altangerel, grandson of the late curator I, investigated the loss of this icon and, discovering that it had made its way into the State Treasury, arrange for it to be returned to its original home at Khamar Monastery.