He was born in Tümed Right Wing Banner of
Josutu League, Inner Mongolia (modern-day,
Beipiao,
Chaoyang,
Liaoning Province). He had a childhood name Khaschuluu (
qasčilaɣu, Хасчулуу, ), Chinese name Baoying (寶瑛) and courtesy name Runting (潤亭). His father
Vanchinbal (
vangčinbala, Ванчинбал, ) was a
taiji (Mongol title), and hence, a descendant of
Genghis Khan. Injinash's mother was Vanchinbal taiji's lady Mayukha. Vanchinbal was a bookcollector of Mongolian, Classical Chinese, Manchu and Tibetan literature. According to Injinash's preface, the first eight chapters of
The Blue Chronicle were written by Vanchinbal. His family was highly literate in Mongolian, Manchu, and Chinese languages. His father, Vanchinbal, was a banner administrator of Tümed Right Banner (modern Beipiao county, Liaoning province) and his position was inherited by two of his sons, Gularansa (1820–51) and Süngwaidanjung (1834–98). These two also translated the Chinese novel: Shuihu zhuan (
Water Margin) into Mongolian, and like their middle brother, Gungnechuke (1832–66), were poets. Injinash claimed he worked on
The Blue Chronicle with his two brothers. Injinash married twice and his first wife was the daughter of a
Kharchin prince and had two sons. As Tümed Right Wing Banner was close to China, it was subjected to an enormous population pressure from China. By the time Injinash was born, the banner has been transformed into agricultural land by the Chinese, who outnumbered the indigenous Mongols. Apparently, this situation led Injinash to depicts in
The Blue Chronicle (Mongolian: Köke Sudar) the glorious past of the Mongols of Genghis Khan's time. A rebellion by his family's Chinese tenants in 1870 and the failure of the Injinash family's investment in a coal mine caused financial distress. The ethnic tensions between the Mongols and Chinese resulted in the
Jindandao Incident of 1891. The Chinese rebels massacred tens of thousands of Mongols and devastated the Mongol society of the Josutu and Ju'udu Leagues. These factors forced Injinash to flee to
Jinzhou, and he died in Liaoning on 25 February 1892. == Works ==