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Gold Temple of the Buddha Shakyamuni. Хурул Золотой храм в городе Элиста. Калмыкия Европа. Буддийский храм "Золотая обитель Будды Шакьямуни".
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The Golden Temple, Kalmyk capital, Elista |
Kalmykia is an indigenously European Buddhist region in southwestern Russia. It practices Vajrayana Buddhism, an esoteric form of the Dharma blended with Siberian shamanism, establishing a long but little known history of the Dharma on the Continent.. Mongolian and Himalayan Buddhist kingdoms have apparently had a heavy influence its style of practice.
HISTORY: The Kalmyks originate from Central Asia. Their ancestors
-- the Oirats
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belonged to the western branch of Mongolian peoples. They represented a
very powerful alliance of tribes, formations of the early feudal
state under the dominion Mongolia found itself in during the first half
of XV сentury. Consequently inter-regional conflicts and a number of
military misfortunes caused the reduction of the Oirat Empire.
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Golden Buddha in Gold Temple abode |
BODHI TREE: (
Sandji Buvaev) On Nov. 27, 2012 the former president of the Republic of Kalmykia, billionaire
Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, reported that he met with a Buddhist delegation from Sri Lanka.
It was agreed during that in the spring of 2013, a seed or cutting will be brought from the direct descendant of the
world's oldest documented tree (the sacred fig or
Ficus religiosa), under which the historical Buddha attained enlightenment. It will be planted in the European
Buddhist Republic of Kalmykia, according to KalmykiaNews. Recall that in 2011, the former Kalmyk president...
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Buddhism traveled West out of India (TSO) |
Life in Siberia
The coldest place on Earth is not Himalayan Ladakh, Nepal, Tibet, or distant Bhutan, some of the highest inhabited places. It is the Russian republic of Yakutia
, which makes up a fifth of Russia's land.
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