Sunday, January 2, 2022

Shamans in Buddhist Far East Russia (video)

Yakut shaman musician Olena UUTAi; Amber Larson and Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Olena UUTAi at the Earth Music Festival
(Olena UUTAi, 11/4/16) Олена УУТАй Подлужная - Победитель в номинации "За Самобытность". Мариинский театр, город Санкт-Петербург. Winner of the festival's nomination "For Origin," Mariinskii Opera House, St. Petersburg, Russia.



Olena UUTAi. "The Call of the Shaman"
(Olena UUTAi, Jan. 14, 2020) Live performance with shamanic drum and the Yakutian khomus (jaw harp) in the City of Salekhard, Russian Federation. This is a fusion of ancient root sounds, ethnic music, and modern technologies. Follow Olena UUTAi on Instagram @uutai_olena 🌿💧🐎🦅🐺🔥

Yakutia (also known as Sakha) is a region in Far East Russia that was formerly home to many Buddhists (like Kalmykia, the only indigenously-Buddhist region of Europe, Buryatia, and Tuva) and always shamanic, preserving the ancient ways of healers and communicators between worlds, human and spirit.
Why would a Buddhist be a shaman? The very word "shaman" comes from the Buddhist term for a wandering spiritual seeker, the shramana or sramana, those seeking direct experience of the Truth/divine.

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