Senior Researcher at the Institute of Ethnic Literature at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Rinchindorji has devoted many years of research to Mongolian literature and epic studies, as evinced by his numerous articles and books. Among these are A Collection of Essays on Mongolian Folk Literature (1986), Jangar: A Hero Epic from Chinese Ethnic Minority Traditions (1990), On the Epic Jangar (1999), and On the Origin and Development of Mongolian Heroic Epics (2001).