Living in coldest inhabited place: Yakutia

Tour Guide Eli from Russia (YouTube); Amber Larson, Dhr. Seven (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Coldest Place on Earth (-71°C, -96°F) Why do people live here? | Oymyakon

(Eli from Russia) April 1, 2022. No fooling, I spent several days with the locals of the Russian village of Oymyakon, Russia (Yakutia/Sakha Republic) and the world's coldest inhabited place.

Buddhism in Russia: Lhasa's Emissary to Tsar

I thought that the only thing people do here is survive and suffer the cold. I was very wrong. Here's what I found out about the locals.

• Buddhism in Russia
• Could "Sakha" be Buddhist Sakka, Shakya, Scythia?
• When the Buddha was reborn as a [rein-]deer (Jātaka)
• Only indigenously Buddhist country in Europe: Kalmykia

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• 0:00 Welcome to Yakutia
• 0:49 Trip to Oymyakon. First stop, Khandyga
• 4:13 The road of bones, Kolyma
• 7:33 Stuck in the middle of frozen nowhere, again
• 10:32 Welcome to Oymyakon
• 14:10 Tasting slaughtered raw foal's flesh 16:17
• Going on winter fishing expedition to murder fish
• 18:04 Culture of Sakha people (Yakuts)
• 20:54 How do people live in Oymyakon?
• 24:34 Ice bathing in the coldest place on Earth

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There are Buddhists in Russia?

The lotus flag of Buddhist Yakuts in Yakutia

Historically, Buddhism was incorporated into Siberia in the early 17th century [1, 2]. Buddhism is considered to be one of Russia's traditional religions and is legally a part of Russian historical heritage [3].

Besides the historical Buddhist monastic traditions of Buryatia, Tuva, and Kalmykia (the only Buddhist-majority republic in Europe), Buddhism is now spreading all over Russia, with many ethnic Russian converts. More